Capacity Development Tools

The CDP Background Papers are preliminary documents aimed at stimulating discussion and critical comment on the broad range of economic, social and environmental issues associated with the issues dealt with by the Committee for Development Policy.

Currently 25 issues briefs on various aspects of youth development provide information on key challenges and situations facing youth globally, provding an overview of the situation of youth in specific contexts as well as UN work in the area.

The Global Policy Model (GPM) is a tool for investigation of policy scenarios for the world economy . The model allows users to specify alternative assumptions about the future economic context and policy responses in different groups of countries and trace macro-economic outcomes over short, medium and long-term timescales.

This study applies an economic-wide framework to analyze the impact of the crisis on MDG achievement in six Latin American countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua).

The main objective of the Principles and Recommendations is to provide international principles and recommendations for use by national statistical offices and census officials in countries throughout the world in planning and organizing their censuses

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

The publication will provide national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on entrepreneurship from a gender perspective. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey to collect the data (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

The publication will provide national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on asset ownership from a gender perspective. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring asset ownership from a gender perspective and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey to collect the data (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The Global Policy Model (GPM) is a tool for investigation of policy scenarios for the world economy . The model allows users to specify alternative assumptions about the future economic context and policy responses in different groups of countries and trace macro-economic outcomes over short, medium and long-term timescales.