According to a new UNDP report, 97% of Afghans could be living in poverty by mid-2022 unless a response to the country’s political and economic crises is urgently launched.
UNDP joins millions of Afghans and others around the world calling for peace, respect for human rights, and access to development assistance.
UNDP sets up 20 mobile health teams to provide critical health care services to thousands of internally displaced people.
Two Billion People to Face Water Shortages as Ice on the World’s Highest Mountains Melts, Warns UNDP
Asia’s Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain ranges could lose up to two thirds of its ice by 2100, causing water and food shortages for over two billion people
In just one week, Bhutan successfully rolled out the second dose of its national COVID-19 vaccine campaign to more than 60 percent of its population.
As wealthy countries expand their vaccination programmes and begin to emerge from lockdown has hit South Asia.
Global Value Chains (GVCs) may have experienced a setback during the early phases of the pandemic, but it seems premature to diagnose a wholesale failure of the system.
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.
How we're responding to the COVID19 Outbreak
We have been supporting countries since the very early stages of this crisis, having donated more than two million surgical masks and providing life supporting medical equipment such as x-ray machines, infrared thermometers, infusion pumps, protective suits, gloves and hand sanitizer.
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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 25 UNDP Country Offices and the Bangkok Regional Hub to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
Human Rights Due Diligence Training Facilitation Guide
In recent years, a rich dialogue has emerged around the role that business plays in shaping our environment, our well-being and our security. COVID-19 pandemic raised new questions about the role of business in times of crisis, and the conditions under which large corporations under stress should expect taxpayer rescue packages. Consumers, shareholders and business partners are demanding that enterprises do more to minimize harms and maximize social dividends, not only in times of economic expansion, but also as a response to present and future crises. For this reason, there has been a significant push to make the practice of human rights due diligence (HRDD) mandatory for businesses in some regions and countries. There is widespread belief that public support to private enterprise during times of crisis should only go to those companies that practise and live by their commitments to responsible business.
This Training Facilitation Guide provides training modules which clarify what is required to conduct human rights due diligence by focusing on the basics and sticking to internationally agreed principles and widely understood terminology. Applying a step-by-step approach, this allows for businesses to embark on HRDD as a stand-alone effort or as part of a preexisting assessment process.
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18%
Women in parliament
400 million
People Living in Extreme Poverty
25%
Population Living in Multidimensional Poverty
$26 trillion
Infrastructure Investment Needs
