Building national capacities to design evidence-based sustainable development policies by the use of environmental, economy-wide, microsimulation, and integrated assessments modelling tools

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…

Recipients: Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Sri Lanka
Partners: UNDP, IAEA, UNESCO
Status: Closed
Enhancing national capacities for unleashing full potentials of micro-, small- and medium-enterprises (MSMEs) in achieving sustainable development goals in developing countries

The project aims to enhance and strengthen knowledge, policy development and national capacities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition to improve their policies and programmes supporting the growth of micro-, small-, and medium-enterprises (MSMEs) in order to promote productive activities, job creation, income generation and entrepreneurship especially among socially disadvantaged groups including women, youth, and to effectively contribute to the achievement of…

Recipients: Kenya, Tanzania, Gambia, Brazil, Peru, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Fiji
Partners: UNDP, UNIDO, UNCTAD, WB, UNGC, ICC, ADB, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Ford Foundation, UNF, Gates Foundation
Donors: China
Status: Closed
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
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