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Enhancing the role of information and communication technologies in health care for older persons in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic poses multifaceted threats and continues to impact the livelihoods, dignity and survival of people, particularly older persons and other vulnerable groups. Affordable access to health care for older persons has therefore become particularly important. COVID-19 has spurred new information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives, enabling continued or enhanced access to quality health care through remote diagnosis, treatment and care, particularly for older persons. This policy brief provides policy options on how ICTs can be used to facilitate access to healthcare for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.</p
Advancing Pacific priorities
Get PDFIn 2021, amid the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) of ESCAP have re-affirmed their solid commitment to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway). Pacific member States also showed strong leadership in voicing the challenges and concerns affecting PSIDS that required concerted regional and global action at various platforms.
One such platform was the 8th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) held in March 2021 which was chaired by the Fiji Minister of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation. Participating member States welcomed contributions made to the Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID-19 and called for increased collaboration around priority areas, taking into consideration the 2019 High-Level Mid-Term Review for the SAMOA Pathway. The Forum also noted that climate change remained the greatest threat to PSIDS and requested better access to climate finance and adaptive capacity building, referencing the ‘Pacific 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent’.
At the 77th Session of the ESCAP Commission held in April 2021, PSIDS leaders including those of Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Fiji, stressed the importance of regional action for building back better from crises in the Asia Pacific region, and particularly for broadening social protection and strengthening connectivity for promoting recovery from COVID-19.
Last but not least, PSIDS participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) to urge the global community to step up efforts to achieve the Paris Agreement, as PSIDS, while least responsible for carbon emissions would bear the worst impacts of climate change. At the same time, the side event on climate mobility organized by ESCAP and PCCM-HS Partners made it clear that the Pacific would do everything possible collectively to survive sea-level rise and the climate emergency.
With 2030 rapidly approaching, progress on achieving the SAMOA Pathway and the SDGs have been hampered by the triple crisis of COVID-19, natural disasters and fragile economies related to the inherent vulnerabilities of small island developing states.
This short publication is an important way of ESCAP’s expressing its support to the efforts of the PSIDS to implement of the SDGs and the SAMOA Pathway in the Pacific, and lists for the information of the readers the key projects and activities ESCAP has worked on in 2021 in close collaboration with our Pacific member States, Pacific regional organisations, and the UN family in the Pacific.</p
South and South-West Asia Development Monitor No. 10
No full textSouth and South-West Asia Development Monitor Number 10, 22 November 2012.
The Development Monitor is a bimonthly electronic newsletter, launched in early 2012 (issued on a monthly basis initially), which provides an overview of the work and activities undertaken by the ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office and 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.
On 6–7 November 2012, representatives of South and South-West Asia member States met in New Delhi to deliberate on common challenges and opportunities in the area of energy security and sustainable use of energy. The meeting served as the subregional preparatory meeting for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Energy Forum to be held in Vladivostok, Russian Federation in 2013.
According to a background study prepared for the meeting by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), countries in the subregion face a number of energy challenges, including energy poverty, lack of available supplies, poor energy infrastructure and transport facilities, a situation which exacerbates social vulnerabilities and inequalities
Asia-Pacific tech monitor. Vol. 21, No. 6, Nov - Dec 2004
No full textTechnology innovation through small enterprise clusters : A case from China / Chi Renyong, Yang Xia and Chen Baofeng
Industrial clusters and regional development: Eastern and Western approaches / Itsutomo Mitsui
The globalization of technology: Opportunities for SMEs / Zorayda Amelia C. Alonzo
Leveraging networks to win globally / Shameen Prashantham
Promotion of small enterprises in Asia and the Pacific : Selected organizations and portals / Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technolog
VATIS update : biotechnology. Vol. 1, No. 76, Nov-Dec 2005
Get PDFHighlights : Novel "cut-and-run" gene regulation mechanism • Rhythm gene discovered • Novel diabetes drugs developed • Stem cells to grow into cartilage • Herb protein suppresses HIV-1 gene expression • Using GM plants to clean up heavy metal
Covid-19 and the future of energy in the Asia- Pacific : building back better
Get PDFThis report seeks to provide useful insights for energy policymakers, to enrich discussions and pave a way forward for the post-COVID-19 energy transition. It presents analysis based on an extensive literature, expert opinions, and energy modeling to examine gaps and further efforts to accelerate the pace of change, and drive the way for equitable, inclusive, and resilient economies the Asia and the Pacific. It models three countries in detail – Pakistan, Fiji and Lao PDR – to evaluate the potential energy sector response under a range of scenarios during and after recovery from the pandemic and provide an indication of implications across the region.</p