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Summary assessment of Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, Second Session, 16-19 November 2021, Online meeting
No full textThe Second Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific took place from 16-19 November 2021 as a virtual meeting due to the ongoing COVID-19 related travel restrictions in many countries of the Asia-Pacific region. The Conference was divided into two segments. The first one, the senior officials’ segment, provided a platform to review the progress made toward meeting the goals of the Asia and Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024), showcase the importance of CRVS for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promote civil registration systems as the foundation for legal identity management and discuss the essential role of CRVS systems in response to pandemics and the recovery from COVID-19. The Conference was concluded by a ministerial segment during which Ministers provided guidance to accelerate progress toward the shared regional vision universal and responsive CRVS systems.
The Conference was attended by 70 per cent of all ESCAP members and associate members (44 of 62) with 40 ministers actively participating in the event to share their visions, and continue their commitments to getting every one in the picture. In total, there were 376 accredited participants from members and associate members, of whom 134 were female (35 per cent). A number of other entities, including Permanent Observers, United Nations bodies and agencies, and intergovernmental organizations also participated in the Conference. From these entities, there were 81 participants of whom 46 were female (56 per cent). Therefore, the total number of participants from both governments and other entities is 457 individuals and the total number of female participants is 180 (39 per cent). Participants attended the Conference through KUDO conferencing platform and YouTube live.</p
South and South-West Asia Development Monitor No. 30
No full textThe SSWA Development Monitor is an electronic newsletter, launched in early 2012 by the ESCAP South and South-West Asia office and which provides an overview of the work and activities undertaken by ESCAP-SSWA, as well as conferences and knowledge products of relevance to the subregion. The newsletter also provides a compilation of news and articles on themes covered by the ESCAP-SSWA work programme.
This particular issue of the Monitor focuses on the seventy-first session of the ESCAP Commission that was held from 25 to 29 May 2015 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, highlighting developments of particular interest for the South and South-West Asian subregion
COVID-19 and the unpaid care economy in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFTo leave no one behind and to reach those furthest behind first are the essential ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Within that mandate, Sustainable Development Goal 5 (achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls) must be a cornerstone of actions taken to achieve a prosperous, inclusive and sustainable future for the Asia-Pacific region.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the risks and vulnerabilities for women and girls across the region. Yet, all the while, women have taken up essential roles in the pandemic response as front-line health care workers as well as in their homes. The introduction of lockdowns, mobility restrictions and school closures have greatly increased the time spent on household chores. Women have had to clean, wash, cook, and care for home-schooling children and household members who are sick or elderly. Many of the hard-fought gains over the past decades have been reversed, and existing inequalities have further deepened. Even before the pandemic, women and girls in Asia and the Pacific spent on average up to 11 hours a day on unpaid care and domestic work — four times more than men.
This report argues that a unique opportunity is upon us to better address the risks and vulnerabilities of women and girls and help them out of poverty, exclusion and marginalization. Governments must seize this opportunity to invest in the care economy by recognizing, redistributing and reducing unpaid care and domestic work. Such investments will help relieve the care burden and generate decent employment, which in turn will increase the resilience and long-term growth of economies.</p
Statistical newsletter. No. 47, September 1982
No full textThe Statistical Newsletter is published quarterly by the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Airship technology for air connectivity and humanitarian aid in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Get PDFThe Hybrid Airship transport alternative has the potential to be a game changing technology with significant development in recent years. It offers the technical capabilities to make a broad contribution to the optimization of mobility and logistics networks in isolated communities and territories, especially but not only in Small Island Developing States.
This topic is of significant importance in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the event of a disaster, different aid agencies are deployed with support in the distribution and logistics of perishable cargo, essential cargo, equipment and assistance personnel. The economic capacity and the transport accessibility -connectivity- of the regions directly influence countries’ capacity to face a disaster. Disasters usually have local effects and the area affected depends on the type of the natural hazard. Some of them, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have a global impact, presenting a significant challenge for the transport and logistics industry.
The aim of this technical note is to help raise awareness on Airships as an innovative mobile services technology that presents a series of competitive advantages for improving connectivity in SIDS and that can serve as a response for humanitarian, sanitary and environmental challenges across the local, regional and global scales, as a resilient and sustainable logistics solution. </p
Securing green development : can Asia-Pacific central banks and financial supervisory authorities do more?
No full textThis paper discusses how central banks and financial supervisory authorities (CBFSAs) can foster green development in Asia and the Pacific. It argues that while fiscal policy has received much attention, CBFSAs can certainly play a complementary role in speeding up the transition towards low-carbon, climate-resilient economies. Indeed, CBFSAs are obliged to act as inaction could compromise their mandate of maintaining economic and price stability given that climate change poses an emerging risk to the financial system. The paper first shows that around half of Asia-Pacific central banks either have sustainability-oriented mandates or began integrating climate issues into their policy conduct. It then demonstrates that while the region remains at the early stage of green monetary and financial policies, some CBFSAs are at the forefront in deploying monetary policy tools, prudential measures, and broader initiatives to support green finance. To further promote green central banking, having clear guiding principles, effective communication, and adequate technical capacity to customize the green approach is critical. Moving forward, CBFSAs should be mindful about possible unintended, adverse impacts of sustainable central banking, such as interfering with market neutrality, supporting greenwashing, and crowding out green private investments.</p
