he adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015 brought increased attention to the international community on the need to strengthen the statistical capacity of developing countries to measure, monitor and report on the sustainable development goals, targets and indicators. Goal 17 specifically addresses strengthening the means of implementation, with target 17.18 calling for enhanced capacity building support to developing …
Programme for Statistics and Data
Recipients: Namibia, Gambia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Jordan, Saudi Arabia
Partners: UNCTAD, ECA, ECE, ESCAP, ECLAC, ESCWA, UN-Habitat, UNODC, UNEP
Status: Closed
Frontier Technology Policy Experimentation and Regulatory Sandboxes in Asia and the Pacific
Frontier technologies carry a promise to fast track the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through supporting innovative, forwarding-looking policies and solutions. There are, however, numerous risks and complexities of digital technologies that come along with those opportunities, as well as policy and regulatory challenges. In recent years, relatively new approaches of policy experimentation and regulatory sandboxes have emerged among countries, and have proven to be effective in…
Recipients: Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Maldives
Partners: UNESCAP, UNDP, ITU
Status: Closed