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Inequality, discrimination, and exclusion : assessing CRPD compliance in Pacific island legislation
Get PDFAn estimated 15 per cent of the population in the Pacific live with a disability and are among the poorest and most marginalized in their communities with limited access to education, employment, basic services and other development opportunities. Despite core international human rights treaties, persons with disabilities have remained invisible and subject to general neglect, stigma and discrimination. To bridge this protection gap, regional frameworks and global commitments called for Pacific countries to adopt inclusive legislative measures to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. This report provides a comparative analysis of legislative compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) across seven Pacific island countries and nine national and state jurisdictions: Vanuatu, Nauru, Republic of Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei State and Kosrae State). The report consolidates the key findings of a series of CRPD legislative compliance reviews conducted between 2015 and 2019 under the Pacific Enable Project (Phases I & II) with funding support from the UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) in response to requests from Pacific governments. It addresses critical questions of inequality, discrimination and exclusion as they affect persons with disabilities in the Pacific region, examining common infringements as well as positive examples in Constitutional frameworks and over twenty areas of law. It also outlines legislative options and opportunities for Pacific countries toward harmonization with the CRPD
Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 24, No. 6, Nov - Dec 2007
No full textThe use of space technology : Applications for disaster management / Li Jing, Chang Yan, Jiang Weiguo and Li Suju
Indigenous skills in disaster reduction : Application to flood mitigation in Japan / Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi
Drought impact mitigation : An integrated approach to Malawi / Angela Mugore
Disaster warning and management : Space technology and community education in Thailand / Ampai Harakunarak
Forecasting earthquakes : Is it possible? / Zenaida Delica - Willison
Tsunami mitigation management / Koh Hock Lye, Teh Su Yean and Ahmad Izani Md. Ismai
Policy scenarios to build forward better in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFBased on a newly developed macroeconomic model for Asia and the Pacific, this paper examines the socio-economic and environmental implications of an illustrative policy package that helps the region build forward better from the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprising of policy actions to provide basic social services, close the digital divide and strengthen climate and energy actions, this paper demonstrates that such a package not only raises economy-wide productivity but also reduces poverty and income inequality and cuts carbon emissions to a notable extent in the long run. This paper also examines public debt sustainability under different scenarios and stress tests. Given the large fiscal needs to build forward better and combat the pandemic, the simulation results show that debt vulnerability may rise steeply in the region’s less developed economies
NEASPEC strategic plan 2021-2025
Get PDFThe Strategic Plan has served as a guiding document for developing and implementing NEASPEC work in five programmatic areas: (a) Transboundary Air Pollution; (b) Biodiversity and Nature Conservation; (c) Marine Protected Areas, (d) Low Carbon Cities, and (e) Desertification and Land Degradation. The Strategic Plan supports strengthening and institutionalizing cooperation platforms, namely, the North-East Asian Marine Protected Areas Network (NEAMPAN), the North-East Asia Low Carbon City Platform (NEA-LCCP), and the North-East Asia Clean Air Partnership (NEACAP), which enable the NEASPEC work to move from short-term, project-based to long-term, programmatic approach. The approaches of the Strategic Plan also support the NEASPEC work to become more strategic towards strengthening science-policy linkage, operating stakeholder platforms, sharing knowledge, and linking the work with regional and global goals.Having built on the Strategic Plan 2016-2020 and reflecting new development during its implementation, the programmatic areas of the Strategic Plan 2021-2025 are (a) Air Pollution, (b) Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, (c) Marine Protected Areas, (d) Low Carbon Cities, and (e) Desertification and Land Degradation. While focusing on the five areas, the Strategic Plan may provide room for identifying other emerging issues of mutual interests among member States and support dialogue and cooperation on the issues. Thus, new programmatic areas can be explored and developed under the Strategic Plan 2021-2025 if such need is identified and consensus reached among member States.</p
Statistical Newsletter, No.46, June 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)
Structural transformation in graduating Pacific Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Get PDFThe Pacific least developed countries (LDCs) are not industrialising. Most of the shift in economic output over the past 20 years has been toward services and away from agriculture. Almost all new jobs created have been in services. Economic progress, mostly via tourism, is vulnerable to global volatility such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Services are inherently less productive, as is agriculture. Trade liberalization has underdelivered and exports in three of the four regional LDCs have become less diversified since 2000. The traditional conception of structural transformation therefore appears inappropriate. This implies a need to think creatively about analysis and policies. New, context-sensitive ways of thinking about economic transformation must be conceptualized and enacted to promote the next phase of economic development
Public sector initiatives for reducing inequality : strengthening the evidence base to leave no one behind
Get PDFThis report is developed as part of a project on “Reducing Inequality in FEALAC Member Countries - Innovative Policy Making that Leaves No One Behind”. It focuses on two examples from FEALAC Member States in Asia, namely the Child Money Programme (CMP) in Mongolia and the Old Age Allowance (OAA) in Thailand, to illustrate how the design and implementation public sector initiatives can help reduce inequality. Desk research, focus group discussions, as well as in-depth interviews were conducted to support the findings of the report
Evaluation of the project Asia-Pacific Sustainable Urban Transport Systems to support the regions achievement of the 2030 Agenda
Get PDFCommissioned byTransport Division, ESCAPThe project aimed at facilitating the implementation of sustainable transport policies and programmes and strengthening regional cooperation in this region. In line with its objective, the project conducted an assessment of the sustainability of the transport sector in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on cities and produced a collection of brief reports and case studies and also organized one regional meeting involving senior policymakers to present city-specific issues in the area of sustainable transport.Government of the Russian FederationAcknowledgments....................................................................................................................................i
List of acronyms......................................................................................................................................ii
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................iii
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................1
Project description ..........................................................................................................................8
Evaluation findings........................................................................................................................10
Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................21
Lessons learned/good practices....................................................................................................23
Recommendations........................................................................................................................24
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