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Leaving no one behind : access to social protection in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFThis paper explores trends in social protection in Asia and the Pacific. Drawing on data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) from three representative countries in the region, namely Tonga, Nepal, and Georgia, the paper uses Classification and Regression Trees (CART) to identify which groups are least likely to be aware of or have received social protection programs, i.e., the furthest behind groups. Results underscore significant variation within and across countries.
Overall, awareness of social protection programs is high while the receipt of social protection is much lower. Female-headed households tend to have higher rates of receiving social protection. Wealth of the household and residence type (urban versus rural) also explain variation, with higher coverage amongst poorer and rural households. Coverage by specific programs within countries also varies greatly. This paper aims to inform policymakers and researchers about descriptive trends in awareness and the receipt of social protection across Asia and the Pacific.</p
Seizing the moment : targeting transformative disaster risk resilience
No full textExtreme weather events and natural hazards have become more frequent and intense. Asia and the Pacific remains the most disaster-prone region in the world where 2 million people have lost theirlives to disasters since 1970.
The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2023 demonstrates that the existing disaster risk hotspots are forecasted to face more frequent and intense disasters and new risk hotspots are expected to emerge.
To protect people and the development gains, the Report urges for transformative adaptation measures, including increased investments in multi-hazard early warning systems, innovation and scientific breakthroughs capable of advancing early warnings and nature-based solutions.
In the absence of immediate action, temperature rises of 1.5°C and 2°C will cause disaster risk to outpace resilience beyond the limits of feasible adaptation and imperil sustainable development. The Report makes the case for scaling up regional cooperation to ensure disaster resilience is never outpaced by disaster risk in Asia and the Pacific</p
ESCAP progress report on gender mainstreaming 2022
No full textThe narratives in this report are based on data and information available up to the end of December 2022Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020, ESCAP has made significant progress towards the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls within the context of the System-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP).
ESCAP was swift to contribute to mitigating the gendered challenges posed by the pandemic. ESCAP worked hand in hand with member States to empower women to cope with the economic fallout from COVID-19 and provided analyses of the gendered impacts of responses to the pandemic and recommendations for recovery policies. This report provides concrete examples of such actions.
Moving forward, ESCAP will continue to place women and girls at the centre of our efforts to craft the post-pandemic future. In accordance with our Gender Equality Policy (2019-2023), ESCAP will continue to play its part in supporting its member States as well as strengthening the skill set of its staff towards an increasing gender-responsive programming and implementation of ESCAP’s activities
A practical guide to working effectively with the media
Get PDFWhen it comes to communicating the work of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to the general public, we all have a role to play, whatever our specific functions may be in the office. In your everyday life, you talk about your work to family members, friends, acquaintances, work contacts, and, on occasion, the media. This pamphlet aims to provide you with a practical guide on the ways the media operates and how you can work effectively with the media.</p
The race to net zero : accelerating climate action in Asia and the Pacific
No full textThe theme study sets out the transformations that are needed for Asia and the Pacific to transition to a net-zero-carbon future in support of sustainable development. It provides an outline of the regional context of climate change and identifies policies and actions that could be taken in various sectors of the economy to support the global climate agenda, while also making broad economic, social and environmental gains. To close the emissions gap in key sectors, efforts must be made to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Low-carbon mobility and logistical solutions are crucial for accelerating innovation, developing technologies and tapping into greener fuels. The move towards low-carbon transport options requires an integrated approach to land use and urban planning, as Asia and the Pacific is rapidly motorizing. Furthermore, Governments need to boost their climate-smart trade and investment sectors so that they can decarbonize industries that are currently notable for exporting carbon-intensive goods. Trade and investment should be utilized as force multipliers to combat climate change but are still missing from the existing regional climate landscape. The theme study also contains information on climate-related financing needs in the region and addresses data gaps for better monitoring. Given the carbon neutrality commitments from the majority of Asia-Pacific countries, the report recommends strengthening regional policy dialogue and technical cooperation on low carbon, climate-resilient transition.</p
G20 compendium on investment promotion, attraction and facilitation for sustainable development : emerging G20 IPA strategy and best practice
No full textThis Compendium seeks to understand how the national IPAs of the G20 promote, attract and facilitate FDI for sustainable development, particularly in terms of the incorporation of sustainable development objectives into their foreign direct investor identification, engagement, support and monitoring activities and the extent to which G20 IPAs measure the sustainable development payoffs, or impacts, of their investment promotion, attraction, and facilitation efforts. Since the G20 attracts most of the world’s FDI, understanding what its IPAs are doing to better gauge and track the sustainability of the FDI they attract and service can significantly influence and encourage other IPAs to do the same.
G20 IPAs are now firmly committed to promoting sustainable development and to attracting investment in sectors that contribute directly to key SDGs. Encouraging as this is, it is important to emphasize that this is still in a nascent phase and confined to a relatively small group – even within the G20. Outside this small sub-group, however, investment promotion seems to continue to largely be business as usual – in the traditional way. Findings suggest that for many G20 IPAs, ‘investment promotion for sustainable development’ still seems to be a secondary and subsidiary task to their real job of bringing in any and as much investment as they can and have been doing for decades. In other words, investment promotion in the G20 has not yet ‘gone sustainable’ enough across the board to ensure that all G20 members meet their 2030 Agenda targets.
To this end, the Compendium stresses the crucial need to make investment in sustainable development the core, driving principle for mission statements, investor messaging, investor services and incentives. Interrelatedly, it highlights an urgent need for capacity building to equip IPAs with the necessary skills and knowledge to attract, support and expand sustainable investment. Crucial is also to increase IPA cooperation to drive sustainable investment principles to the forefront internationally and create synergies between IPAs and economies.</p
2022 : Leaving no one behind : Fiji country brief
No full textLeaving No One Behind (LNOB) tool helps discover how different circumstances interact to create unequal access to basic opportunities in Asia and the Pacific. The LNOB country brief for Fiji provides insights into which groups are further ahead and further behind in various SDG indicators and where the biggest gaps are found in terms of access to opportunities or prevalence of barriers between the furthest behind and the furthest ahead groups in Fiji. </p
Asia-Pacific trade and investment trends brief 2022/2023 : Uzbekistan
No full textThis brief covers recent trends and developments in trade and investment. It has been produced as an accompaniment to the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Trends 2022/2023.</p