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Youth’s vital role for COVID-19 recovery in the ASEAN region
The symposium seeks to promote the implementation of the SDGs in ASEAN in a way that complements ASEAN’s Vision 2025 and elaborates on ways forward to integrate the SDGs at regional, national, and…
COVID-19: One Year On | RBAP Digest March 2021
The March 2021 Issue of the Monthly Digest from UNDP's Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
A new approach to build forward, from the village level in Indonesia
Millions of Indonesians in small and remote villages across the vast archipelago have borne the brunt of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, dubbed as the defining global health crisis of the modern…
UN calls for greater regional cooperation to ensure sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP, UNDP and the Asian Development Bank, jointly launch the latest edition of the Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership Report – Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Leaving No Country Behind.
From Disaster to Opportunity: How Japan is leading tsunami preparedness in Asia and the Pacific
Experience is inevitable to make us better. 10 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, we look back on what we learned from the disaster.
Barriers and challenges can be your best friends – the story of Tawhida Shiropa
When Tawhida Shiropa came to Dhaka from a small town in Northern Bangladesh, she had nothing with her but her ambition to do something big, something great. It was not an easy journey. But with the…
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RBAP Digest February 2021
In this issue: RBAP 2021 priorities revealed; how we're supporting local action on climate change; a rare Sumatran Tiger is released into the wild in Indonesia; a peoples' climate survey reveals 64%…
World’s largest survey of public opinion on climate change: a majority of people call for wide-ranging action
UNDP's "Peoples' Climate Vote" reflects over half the world's population after results processed by the University of Oxford. Sixty-four percent of people believe climate change is a global emergency,…
