Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) in Asia - Formulation of National EST Strategies vis-fi-vis Capacity Building for Soeio-economie Concerns

The main objective of the EST process in Asia is to integrate environmentally sustainable transport in the overall policy, planning and development, by sensitizing the local and national governments, the private sector, and civil society, in order to contribute and follow up the
 Outcome of Rio+20 – The Future We Want, SG’s High-level Panel on Transport, post-2015 Development Agenda/SDGs and other global processes. The immediate objective of the proposed project are more explicitly the…

Recipients: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Donors: Japan
Status: Closed
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) joint programme

The Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) Initiative is a new partnership that seeks to accelerate existing efforts to generate comparable gender indicators on health, education, employment, entrepreneurship and asset ownership. This initiative was launched in May 2011 by the United States at the OECD Ministerial Session on Gender and Development and builds on the work of the United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics. 2. In 1995, the UN Beijing Platform for…

Recipients: Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, Maldives, Georgia
Partners: UN Women
Donors: Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, Unitead States of America, UNWomen
Status: Closed