Projects

Over the last ten years, DPAD/UN-DESA has supported a number of Member States in developing the required capacities to use modelling tools to inform development policies. As such, an important number of models and training activities have been developed to support countries in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and more recently to assess strategies for low-carbon growth and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
Governments from developing countries confront…

The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of NTAs and MoFs in developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Africa to negotiate and apply double tax treaties, drawing on the UN Model, and to formulate inputs into the policy making processes influencing the way double tax treaties are negotiated and re-negotiated to the benefit of developing countries. The main focus of the first phase of the project will be the delivery of the UN Course on Double Tax Treaties with a view…

The achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs largely depends on inclusive national and local actions. The primary objective of the present proposal is to support the acceleration and scaling up of SDGs implementation and localization through the preparations of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) of SDG implementation in the target countries and regions and, through this process, to build the capacities of government officials at the national and subregional levels…