Kanni Wignaraja answer questions from young people in Asia and the Pacific.
UNDP and the UN system stand firmly with the Government and the people of China during this critical time.
ExtremeLives, a project uncovering stories of violent extremism, returns with a Syrian family's story of survival.
With two out of every three people (or 2.5 billion more people) likely to be living in cities or other urban centres by 2050, innovation can help make these settings enjoyable, productive, and sustainable for everyone.
Asia-Pacific continues to grapple with widespread multidimensional poverty, and may be vulnerable to a new set of inequalities emerging around higher education and climate resilience.
Global experts gather in Bangkok for Second Global Dialogue of Uniting Efforts for Innovation, Access and Delivery
UNDP's Climate Promise
UNDP is scaling-up our support to countries through “UNDP’s Climate Promise: Ambition, Acceleration and Mobilization.” UNDP will provide support to 100 countries to accelerate the enhancement of national climate pledges by 2020, building on our climate action portfolio in over 140 countries. And we are developing new ways of mobilizing all people to inform climate action.
Podcast: UNDP’S New Plan for a New Era
Joseph D’Cruz, UNDP Senior Advisor, Strategy and Planning; and Francine Pickup Deputy Country Director for UNDP in Indonesia, discuss UNDP’s new Strategic Plan, and Platform Thinking to support countries across the world, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. UNDP in Asia and the Pacific delivers country and regional programmes in 36 countries through 24 UNDP Country Offices and the Regional Centre to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
Empowering People And Promoting Inclusion And Equality For All Leads To Greater Sustainable Development
Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality is critical to realizing sustainable development, said a joint report Accelerating Progress: An Empowered, Inclusive, and Equal Asia and the Pacific by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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About Asia and the Pacific
18%
Women in parliament
400 million
People Living in Extreme Poverty
25%
Population Living in Multidimensional Poverty
$26 trillion
Infrastructure Investment Needs
