Strengthening geospatial information management in developing countries towards implementing the 2030 Agenda

The project focuses on improving and strengthening the national geospatial information management capacities of developing countries in two beneficiary regions, namely, Africa and Asia and the Pacific, towards implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and evidence-based policy and decision-making. The 2030 Agenda recognizes that timely and accessible geospatial information and statistics, and their combined analyses, are a prerequisite for good policy-making and supporting and…

Recipients: Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Nepal, Fiji, Tonga
Partners: UNOOSA, ESCAP, ECA, ECLAC
Status: Closed
Time-use data for better policies in Africa, Western Asia and Latin America

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to government capacity to effectively produce and use time-use data in policy formulation for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Africa, Latin America and Western Asia. More specifically, in collaboration with ECA, ECLAC and ESCWA, the project will contribute to building capacity in countries to produce and use time-use statistics, in support of measuring and monitoring their national development plans and indicators, including SDG…

Recipients: Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Lesotho, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Chile, Iraq, State of Palestine
Partners: UNECA, UNECLAC, UNESCWA
Status: Closed