The challenge of integrating the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into national policy frameworks is leading to renewed interest in national development planning. Indeed, the 2030 Agenda calls for each Government to “decide ho …
UN Photo/Kibae Park UN DESA in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is organising a three-day workshop in Rome on 14-16 November, on reporting on progress made towards the achievement of the Global Forests Goals (GFGs) and t …
UN DESA will be holding a national workshop in Conakry, Guinea, from 23 until 27 April, 2018 to discuss and validate the outcome of the support by the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN) of the United Nations Forum on Forests in mobi …
UN DESA will be holding a national workshop in the Islamic Republic of Iran from May 18 to May 30, 2018 to discuss and validate the draft project concept on sustainable forest management to be financed by a multilateral financing mechanism.
UN DESA is organizing a national workshop in Antananarivo, Madagascar from 28 to 30 May, 2018 to discuss and validate the outcomes of the support by the the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN) of the United Nations Forum on Forest in …
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (Addis Agenda) calls “on all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges” and invites them “to invest in areas critical to sustainable development” (para 35). In addi …
Working in close collaboration with the African Tax Administration Forum, UN-DESA organized a five-day workshop on transfer pricing entitled “Administrative Aspects and Recent Developments” in Eculwini, Swaziland, from 4 – 8 December 2017. The worksh …
Nothing in our lives is certain except death and taxes, goes the old English saying. But looking at the recent tax avoidance scandals, it seems that for some wealthy individuals and multinational corporations, only one of these life certainties appl …