Portal on Minimum Set of Gender Indicators

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for the indicators contained in the Minimum Set of Gender Indicators with available data.
The Minimum Set of Gender Indicators was agreed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2013 as a guide for national production and international compilation of gender statistics and is a collection of 52 quantitative indicators and 11 qualitative indicators covering national norms and laws on gender equality.

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English
United Nations GPM: Appendices A-F

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.

Keywords / Category: Policy Modelling and Analysis
Language: English
Youth Issue Briefs

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.

Area of work: Social Inclusion
Keywords / Category: Youth
Language: English
Committee for Development website

Provides information about CDP activities as well as LDC data, information and publications. The CDP provides inputs and independent advice to ECOSOC on emerging cross-sectoral development issues and on international cooperation for development. The CDP is also responsible for reviewing the status of LDCs and for monitoring their progress after graduation from the category.

Area of work: Policy coherence
Keywords / Category: LDC Graduation
Language: English
Portal on violence against women statistics

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for indicators on violence against women. The portal also provides a one stop access to related methodological guidelines and capacity building events.

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English
United Nations GPM: Technical description of GPM

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.

Keywords / Category: Policy Modelling and Analysis
Language: English
The Civil Registration and Vital Statistics KnowledgeBase

This Knowledge Center documents and disseminates United Nations methodological guidelines, research articles and country practices and activities in the area of civil registration and vital statistics. It aims at facilitating the international exchange and sharing of knowledge and information, as well as provision of guidance to countries, and monitoring progress made on civil registration and vital statistics.
The Knowledge Center is a searchable database that contains documents on civil registration and vital statistics guidelines, demographic methods, and development of civil…

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English
Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group

The Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group is a group of international and regional organizations coming together to forge stronger alliances in the area of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS). With growing recognition of the value of CRVS to human rights, good governance, and development planning, monitoring and evaluation, there has been renewed interest in strengthening national CRVS systems. CRVS is also emerging as an essential underpinning of the 2030 development agenda. The Group aims, among others, to strengthen national CRVS and related systems through…

Area of work: Policy coherence
Language: English
The UNPAN Online Training

The UNPAN Online Training Centre delivers courses on various topics in public administration. The main objective of the UNPAN Training Centre is to increase the opportunities for government officials from all over the world to access training materials on e-government. They are provided free of charge.

Keywords / Category: e-Government
Language: English
Impact of the global crisis on the achievement of the MDGs in Latin America

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).

Area of work: Policy coherence
Keywords / Category: MDGs
Language: English