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The 2021 Africa Dialogue Series (ADS) celebrates the continent’s identity, culture, history and achievements. It also brings together key stakeholders to discuss challenges and opportunities for Africa under the theme Cultural Identity and Ownership: Reshaping mindsets.
The SDG Media Zone (6 to 8 April 2021) kicks off the 10th annual UN Youth Forum with conversations on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals as the world responds
The Champions Network is a diverse global network of individuals and leaders who are passionate about making food systems more sustainable and just. Members of the network will actively call for a fundamental transformation of the world’s food systems to drive progress toward all 17 SDGs.
The Productive Capacities Index (PCI) is an UNCTAD online portal with publications, manuals, resources and tools that allow policymakers to measure their countries’ performance in achieving their national development goals, as well as their ability to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Home to more than four billion people, over half the world’s population, the Asia Pacific region is diverse, dynamic, and rapidly changing. Over past decades, a variety of forces – from rapid urbanization, a rising middle class, aging populations, technological changes, and critically, the impacts of climate change – have been transforming the landscape. The emergence of COVID-19 in 2020 has caused further seismic shifts with the economic fallout threatening to undermine development across the region. In this context, and with only nine years to realize the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, UNDP is supporting countries to accelerate progress through whole-of-society, integrated solutions – solutions that address the multi-dimensional nature of the challenges at hand.
After a year of pandemic-induced lockdowns, there couldn’t be a better time to appreciate the creative economy. The United Nations is doing just this as it marks 2021 as the International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development.
This year the UN Development Programme recommited to help countries recover fairly from COVID-19, and with climate-resilient economies. COVID-19 did so much more than make people sick. Yet the virus has shown where we have failed to address inequalities and injustices, as well as the destruction of the natural world. And it’s illuminated a clear path of action. With the Sustainable Development Goals as our guide, we must unite as a global community and recommit to help every country recover justly and fairly, with strong, climate-resilient economies.
During periods of financial insecurity, households often focus on immediate needs. And policymakers are often guided by short-term political cycles. Yet, achieving sustainable development — eradicating poverty, reducing inequality and combating climate change — requires a long-term perspective. Development banks can help with Sustainable Development Goal-related investments. The United Nations recognizes the significant role multilateral development banks play in financing sustainable development and providing know-how, therefore designates 4 December as the International Day of Banks.
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In the midst of COVID-19, we have an historic opportunity to look at the world as it is, based on the facts, and then focus on collective solutions, according to a special proje
Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mar
The world is full of food heroes – from farmers to drivers, shop assistants, food bank or government representatives – who despite various challenges, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, work hard to make sure that food makes its way from farms to our table. Let’s celebrate their great efforts this World Food Day. If you’re between ages 5 to 19, we want you to use your imagination and create a poster of your favourite food hero at work for the FAO World Food Poster contest.
On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transfo