COVID|19 response under the United Nations Development Account

The United Nations Global Compact is a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to undertake ...

UN-Habitat's COVID-19 Response Plan

UN-Habitat supported the overall response to the pandemic in 37 countries and more than 250 cities, benefiting 6.8 million people.

UN/DESA Policy Brief #81: Impact of COVID-19 on SDG progress

When world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, they committed to a shared vision to set the world on a ...

States Back a UN-Led International Response to COVID-19

In the last few weeks, the World Bank and IMF have moved relatively swiftly to provide financing packages to developing countries, addressing ...

COVID-19: Reaffirming State-People Governance Relationships

In this context, the United Nations Secretary-General announced a new United Nations communications response with channels to disseminate ...

A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19 - the United Nations

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) delivers his remarks at the meeting of principals on the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy on 3 March ...

Calibrating the COVID-19 Crisis Response to the SDGs

Gallagher is professor and director of the global development policy center at Boston University and a member of the UN Committee on Development ...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP in its technical lead for the socio-economic response components of the UN's COVID-19 response has supported Socio-Economic Impact Assessments and Socio- ...

IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND RESPONSES IN LANDLOCKED ...

In order to restore international trade potential of LLDCs, it is crucial that development partners, the United Nations and other international ...

Protecting and mobilizing youth in COVID-19 responses

... (United Nations, 1966). As the virus can affect and be transmitted by everyone, the COVID-19 pandemic also underscores the extent to which ...

A Compilation by UN DESA - the United Nations

5 – The COVID-19 pandemic puts Small Island Developing economies in dire straits ... Resources in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). https://www.niwrc.org ...

UN/DESA Policy Brief #74: Resilient institutions in times of crisis ...

... in response to the crisis. Restrictions taken in response to COVID-19 can also negatively affect the possibilities for public institutions ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2021 | United Nations

... in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Pandemic-related shocks are likely to trigger a rise in stunting, which already affects more than one in five children.

Policy Brief: A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19

Measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3 global estimates and strategies for developing countries UN DESA, ...

UN/DESA Policy Brief #66: COVID-19 and the least developed ...

... on capacities and public health systems into account. There is also ... Such policies should be based on strengthening national development ...

Comprehensive Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Least ...

The Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations raised concerns about the negative impacts on the LDCs from the onset of the crisis, in early 2020 ( ...

UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery

2 Moreno Di Marco and others, “Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the. United States of ...

World's Most Vulnerable Countries Lack the Capacity to Respond to ...

In a joint statementPDF issued by Ambassadors of Landlocked Developing Countries at the United Nations, the group stress that if the impact of COVID-19 is not ...

UN/DESA Policy Brief #72: COVID-19 and sovereign debt

High debt servicing hamstrings developing countries' immediate response to COVID-19 and rule out needed investment in the United Nations ...

UN/DESA Policy Brief #68: COVID-19 and Older Persons

Healthcare systems in some developing countries are weak ... in the pandemic and weakened the global and national response to their needs.