All governments from developing countries confront the challenge of designing coherent policies that can simultaneously accelerate growth, reduce poverty and inequality, preserve and improve the environment, and help adapt/mitigate to climate change. To successfully achieve these objectives, countries need both i) sound institutional arrangements for policy integration; and ii) quantitative analytical capacities to assess policy options. The ultimate aim is to foster a cohesive policy…
Enhancing policy coherence for the SDGs through integrated assessments and institutional strengthening
Recipients: Ethiopia, Cameroon, Senegal
Partners: ECA, UNDP, IAEA, AAPAM, CAFRAD
Status: Closed
Administrative data for disaggregated Sustainable Development Goals indicators in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America
When good-quality administrative systems are in place and their information is regularly updated, they can reliably provide a full picture of key aspects of a country’s population or economy on a continuous basis. Data collected for administrative purposes can be a rich and cost-efficient source for the production of timely and high-quality official statistics, especially to address the urgent need for disaggregated data on SDG indicators to ensure no one is left behind in the implementation…
Recipients: Tanzania, Cameroon, Namibia, Dominican Republic, Chile, Ecuador, Bhutan, Sri Lanka
Partners: ESCAP, ECA, ECLAC, UN RCOs
Status: Closed
Strengthening capacity of developing countries to achieve sustainable agriculture through the transfer of Juncao Technology and analysing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned for alleviating poverty, and promoting productive employment
Despite progress in reducing both the number of undernourished persons and the prevalence of undernourishment in recent decades, people living in rural areas have been left behind, with many continuing to face grinding poverty and hunger. In particular, smallholder farmers in remote and mountainous areas, drought and desertification- affected regions and small island developing states encounter constant challenges for growing crops, putting them at risk of poverty and hunger. The socio-…
Recipients: Madagascar, Tanzania, Central African Republic, China, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea
Partners: National Engineering Research Center of Juncao Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU)
Donors: China
Status: Active