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A guidebook for assessing SDG investment needs
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While much progress has been made in mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals into national development plans and strategies, what is often lacking is an assessment of the financial resources required to implement them.
As we embark on the Decade of Action, this Guidebook aims to provide practical guidance for policy makers and other stakeholders on how to estimate the investment needs for achieving the Goals. It builds on the analytical framework used in ESCAP’s
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2019: Ambitions beyond Growth,
which estimated that an additional investment of $1.5 trillion per year would enable Asia-Pacific developing countries to achieve the Goals by 2030. The Guidebook has benefited from valuable insights shared by experts and policy makers at two regional workshops in 2018 and 2019. It comes with an online dashboard on SDG investment trends.
This Guidebook aims to support countries in their implementation of the Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs), an initiative led by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development (IATF), chaired by the Under-Secretary-General of UN-DESA and of which ESCAP is a member. The IATF is leading work on the development of global guidance materials for the implementation of INFFs, including a module on costing national sustainable development priorities
The disaster riskscape across South-East Asia : key takeaways for stakeholders
Get PDFThe Disaster Riskscape across South-East Asia: Key Takeaways for Stakeholders presents a comprehensive analysis of the subregion’s riskscape to inform policy actions. Governments in South-East Asia have pioneered innovative approaches. Yet, it will be difficult to stay ahead of the curve as the riskscape becomes increasingly complex. Countries therefore need to forge stronger commitments and actively seek regional cooperation to strengthen resilience, particularly for slow-onset disasters.</p
An enabling environment for women entrepreneurs in Nepal
No full textThe objective of this module is to inform policymakers and support their policymaking skills with gender-related knowledge to create an enabling environment for ICT-empowered women entrepreneurs.
It is based on the WIFI Policymakers Module on "An Enabling Environment for Women Entrepreneurs". The contents, cases and examples were contextualized and specifically designed for Nepal. </p
The disaster riskscape across North and Central Asia : key takeaways for stakeholders
Get PDFThe Disaster Riskscape Across North and Central Asia: Key Takeaways for Stakeholders zooms into the analytical research findings of the APDR with specific reference to the North and Central Asia region and comprehensively presents its subregional riskscape to inform policy actions.</p
Toolkit for ICT infrastructure co-deployment with road transport and energy infrastructure : part II
Get PDFThis capacity building toolkit proposes methodologies and tools for assessing and planning the economic and organizational aspects, and technical aspects of ICT infrastructure co-deployment with road transport and energy infrastructure.
See also - An in-depth national study on ICT infrastructure deployment with road transport and energy infrastructure in Kazakhstan : part I and
- An in-depth national study on ICT infrastructure deployment along road transport and energy infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan : part I</p
Negotiating strategies for LDCs to make the most of aid for trade
Get PDFThis paper explores the kinds of demands governments in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) could and should be formulating and submitting in the context of the e-commerce negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as well as any current or proposed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) they are engaged in with advanced industrialized countries. It begins by discussing the differences between Special and Differential Treatment (S&D) and Aid for Trade (AfT) and affirms that in today’s environment, developing countries and LDCs should never miss an opportunity to engage in trade negotiations with more economically advanced trading partners, since even if limited market access gains are on offer, the prospect of obtaining other concessions in different parts of the AfT agenda could still make for tangible and significant negotiating outcomes for these countries. This paper focuses on negotiating strategies with respect to two kinds of broadly formulated AfT commitments. The first is infrastructure to alleviate supply-side constraints across transport infrastructure, testing and certification capacity and communications network infrastructure for online connectivity. The second set of AfT commitments this paper seeks to provide developing country negotiators advice on is in the area of trade finance, which has become such a prevalent problem for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries that even the WTO Secretariat has started to refer to this as a non-tariff measure. As in all negotiations, the key to success here is preparation. This paper provides some advice on how best to prepare, formulate and substantiate any AfT requests in order to both maximize the chance of success as well as maximize the difficulty for negotiators from developed countries (who must decide on whether to grant an AfT request) to decline any reasonable requests that are tabled
ICT infrastructure co-deployment with transport and energy infrastructure in North and Central Asia
Get PDFInformation and communications technology (ICT) has become an indispensable tool in our daily lives. The evolution of ICT through the Internet is making the globe a community that can create, share and acquire information and knowledge across locations and time. The impact of ICT on economic and social development is what we call the Third Industrial Revolution.
With the advent of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, cloud computing and the Internet of things (IoT), the world is experiencing a revolutionary transition from a knowledge-based society to an intelligence-based society, and we call this the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Yet, the digital divide is widening between developed and developing countries, and between urban and rural areas in a country. If this widening digital divide is not addressed, it will adversely affect the ability of less connected countries to deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With rapid advancements in technology, there is a growing demand for fibre-optic cables (FOCs) that can ensure the delivery of broadband data. However, development of the national FOC infrastructure has been uneven. Many countries have deployed FOCs to meet telecommunications need, but some countries are still using copper-wired cables with limited bandwidth.
As the cost of building the FOC infrastructure is high, developing countries usually rely on the privatized telecom operators to build and expand the FOC network for broadband connectivity. Under such circumstances, infrastructure co-deployment is a solution to accelerating the development of the FOC infrastructure. This working paper examines ICT infrastructure co-deployment with the transport and energy infrastructure in North and Central Asia, with a focus on three countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.</p
Open government data policies and practices in the Republic of Korea
Get PDFThis paper explores the most current OGD policies and practices in the Republic of Korea
and its relevant institutional framework. It aims to present the Korean Governance model
upon open government data initiatives, including specific policies and legislations that
provide solid foundation for data openness. The paper also offers a comprehensive
overview of the Republic of Korea’s open data reuse cases for public value co-creation,
encompassing almost all areas of life such as environment, health, security, education,
finance, and thus most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the
United Nations. After briefly discussing the 2018 OECD Report on monitoring and
evaluation of OGD, the paper will finally conclude with Open Data Charter’s
recommendations for all governments aspiring to adopt a sound OGD governance model with constructive open data initiativ
Socio-economic response to COVID-19 : ESCAP framework
Get PDFThe unprecedented socio-economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic calls for unparalleled multi-sectoral responses. ESCAP has developed a framework to support the socio-economic response of Asia and the Pacific to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The framework's overarching principle supports building back better through integrated policies aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. ESCAP’s offer to member States builds on its mandates and involves three main streams of work: protecting people and enhancing resilience; supporting economic recovery; and restoring supply chains and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To ensure a concerted regional approach for sustainable recovery from the crisis, ESCAP calls for regional cooperation among member States and across stakeholders