Economic and Social Development
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Government of India and the United Nations: Sustainable Development Framework 2018-2022
The UNSDF outlines the development cooperation strategy between the Government of India and the United Nations Country Team in India, in support of the achievement of India’s key national development priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UNSDF was framed following a highly participative process, in consultation with government entities, civil society representatives, academia, and the private sector. The focus areas include poverty and urbanization; health, water, and sanitation; education; nutrition and food security; climate change, clean energy, and disaster resilience; skilling, entrepreneurship, and job creation; and gender equality and youth development. Across outcome areas, the UN will support the Government of India on south-south cooperation, in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs. The total planned budget outlay for the implementation of the UNSDF 2018-2022 is approximately INR 11000 crore, of which 47 percent is planned to be mobilized through the course of implementation from multiple sources, including the private sector and the government. CEO, NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, highlighted the need to promote innovation in meeting India’s development challenges and bringing on board the power of social entrepreneurs and the private sector to act on scale. The UNSDF is underpinned by the overarching principle of the SDGs to leave no one behind, echoing the Government of India’s message of SabkaSaathSabkaVikas (development for all). The programmatic work outlined in the UNSDF targets the seven low-income states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP, Odisha, Rajasthan, UP), the North-East region, and the aspirational districts identified earlier this year by the NITI Aayog. Work will focus on improving the lives of the most marginalized, poor, and vulnerable communities and people in the country, especially women and girls. UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. Yuri Afanasiev, said that “The United Nations in India is committed to provide full support to the Government of India’s development priorities, ensuring that the UNSDF outcomes are achieved. The solutions we find together can catalyze action across the global south- just as solutions from elsewhere in the world will be adapted to India. He added that together, the India-UN team will ensure that poor, vulnerable, and marginalized communities participate in and benefit from the country’s robust growth trajectory.” The UNSDF also includes a set of UN flagship programs that are aligned with major government schemes. The flagship programs will be scalable innovative, multi-sectoral solutions to some of the most pressing development challenges that India faces, while also serving as catalysts for increased investment of development finance. The programmes range from affordable housing for the poor to increasing access to clean energy in rural off-grid areas; from protecting all children from vaccine-preventable diseases to quality education for all children and skilling for young people, especially young girls; and from ending stunting to improving the child sex ratio.
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Source/Issuing Agency:GOI,UNRCO
Imprint:
New Delhi, United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, Government of India, 28 September 2018
Keywords:
SDGs,UNSDF
Language:
English
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Publication
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Economic and Social Development
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World Economic and Social Survey 2018: Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development
The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 reviews the advances in frontier technologies – automation, robotics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence – and analyses their economic, social and environmental impact. These technologies possess immense potential for fostering growth, prosperity and environmental sustainability and accelerating the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Advances in frontier technologies also present new and unique challenges. While promising prosperity, they also present risks of growing unemployment, underemployment and inequality, and raise new ethical and moral challenges.
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Source/Issuing Agency:UNDESA
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New York, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 10 October 2018
ISBN:978-92-1-109179-3
eISBN:978-92-1-047224-1
Language:
English
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Report
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Economic and Social Development
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Sustainable Development Goals and Urban Local Bodies: The Future We Want
There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets. These are universal goals with local implications and intervention possibilities. These universal goals are being localized to the context of each country to ensure relevance, applicability and accountability in the planning, design and implementation of policies and programmes. In this context, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) have a crucial role to play in achieving the SDGs.
The 74th Constitutional Amendment, 1992, also known as Nagarpalika Act, was promulgated to enable the ULBs to perform effectively as vibrant democratic units of self-government. ULBs are expected to play an effective role in the planning and implementation of functions related to 18 subjects enlisted in the Twelfth Schedule of the Constitution. Many SDG goals are directly relevant within the purview of these subjects, namely,
SDG 11 to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. ULBs, which are in the process of preparing the statutory master plan or urban programme/mission-linked city development plans, have the opportunity to synchronize their plans with SDGs. Furthermore, each of the 18 functions of the ULBs as mandated under the 74th amendment, directly contribute to the fulfillment of the India’s commitment to SDGs. Resources from various centrally and state sponsored schemes can be leveraged and converged at urban level. It is important to set urban/wards (zonal)/ward level targets with measurable indicators that will have vertical and horizontal linkages, convergence possibilities, resource mobilization potential and feasible action by ULBs.
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Source/Issuing Agency:UNRCO
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New Delhi, United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, 09 October 2018
Keywords:
SDG's
Language:
English
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Publication
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Population and Demography
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The Political Social Economy of Sex Selection: Exploring Family Development Linkages
The Political and Social Economy of Sex Selection: This is a study of the adverse child sex ratio (CSR) conducted during 2015–17, and builds on existing research on the subject, especially the study conducted by John et al. (2008) which investigated the adverse child sex ratio in five districts of north west India in the wake of the Census 2001 findings on CSRs. The sites of the study are entirely urban, in the towns of Rohtak and Jhajjar in Haryana, and Shirur and Beed in Maharashtra. Haryana is known for its long history of adverse CSRs while Maharashtra has received renewed attention after Census 2011 showed further declines.
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Author:
Mary E. John
Source/Issuing Agency:UN-WOMEN,UNFPA
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New York, United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 28 November 2018
Keywords:
Child Sex Ratio,Gender Equality
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English
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Publication
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Human Settlements and Urban Issues
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WHO Housing and Health Guidelines
Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines’ implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
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Source/Issuing Agency:WHO
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Geneva, World Health Organization, 27 November 2018
ISBN:978-92-4-155037-6
Language:
English
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Publication
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Economic and Social Development
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190 pages
The Least Development Countries Report 2018
Nowhere else in the world is radical economic transformation more urgent than in the least developed countries, which have the challenge of accumulating productive capacities at an unprecedented speed, in the face of the rapid reorientation of global production and digital transformation, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. At the centre of radical economic change is transformational entrepreneurship. The Least Developed Countries Report 2018: Entrepreneurship for Structural Transformation – Beyond Business as Usual demonstrates how transformational entrepreneurship generates many of the social and economic innovations that underpin sustainable development. Transformational entrepreneurs create new products and business models; they offer dignified employment; their success leads to broader improvements in the quality of life and even bolsters fiscal sustainability. Dynamic entrepreneurs also make a greater contribution to wealth accumulation and distribution. In the least developed countries, however, underdevelopment and unfavourable forms of participation in global trade constrain the emergence of the dynamic, opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs needed for structural transformation. The dearth of dynamic local entrepreneurship endangers structural transformation and ultimately weakens national ownership and the potential impact of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals in the least developed countries. The weakness of dynamic entrepreneurship has important implications in the least developed countries, where entrepreneurship policy is often mobilized as an alternative to unemployment and a remedy for structural inequalities. This type of policy is often an imperfect way of fostering high-impact and dynamic entrepreneurship, which requires a distinct and strategic approach and deliberate long-term nurturing that entail coordinated and coherent action and smart policies across a range of relevant policy areas.
The Least Developed Countries Report 2018 presents a compelling case for a structural transformation-centred approach to entrepreneurship policy in the least developed countries. The report underscores entrepreneurship policy based on a fundamental recognition of disparities in the contribution of different types of entrepreneurship to structural transformation and wealth creation. It establishes a more active and proactive stance for the State in steering the emergence of dynamic and transformational local entrepreneurship. Importantly, it calls upon the least developed countries not to overlook the pivotal and complementary role played by large enterprises, alongside medium-sized and smaller enterprises, with a view to the least developed countries formulating deliberate strategies to nurture entrepreneurship that has impact. By encouraging least developed country policymakers to avoid policies that might undervalue the benefits of entrepreneurship, this report makes an invaluable contribution to least developed country efforts to add value to their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Source/Issuing Agency:UNCTAD
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Geneva, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development., 20 November 2018
ISBN:978-92-1-112930-4
ISSN:0257-7550
eISBN:978-92-1-047247-0
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English
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Report
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Nutrition and Food Security
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Preventing Nutrient Loss and Waste Across the Food System: Policy Actions for High Quality Diets
This brief argues that a reduction in food loss and waste, particularly in high nutrient foods, has the potential to yield substantial nutritional benefits, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the advancement of the Decade of Action on Nutrition. It also argues why addressing food waste and loss should be a new priority for improving nutrition.
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Source/Issuing Agency:FAO,GPAFSN
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Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 07 November 2018
Language:
English
Resource Type:
Report
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Public Health
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28 pages
HIV Stigma and Discrimination in the World of Work: Findings from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index
Although access to effective HIV antiretroviral treatments has improved significantly – enabling people living with HIV to live long and productive lives including working and contributing to society in many different ways – people living with HIV continue to face discrimination in relation to work in terms of finding employment, keeping jobs and furthering career progression. This brief provides a snapshot of the prevalence of discrimination against people living with HIV in workplace settings: a practice that is evident across countries and regions.
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Source/Issuing Agency:ILO
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Geneva, International Labour Organization, 26 July 2018
Keywords:
Discrimination,HIV/AIDS
Language:
English
Resource Type:
Report
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Public Health
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268 pages
Miles to go: Closing Gaps Breaking Barriers Righting Injustices
The global AIDS response is at a precarious point-partial success in saving lives and stopping new HIV infections is giving way to complacency. At the halfway point to the 2020 targets, the pace of progress is not matching the global ambition. This report is a wake-up call-action now can still put us back on course to reach the 2020 targets.
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Source/Issuing Agency:UNAIDS
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Geneva, United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, 12 July 2018
Keywords:
HIV/AIDS
Language:
English
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Report
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Human Settlements and Urban Issues
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Tracking Progress Towards Inclusive Safe Resilient and Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements: SDG 11 Synthesis Report High Level Political Forum 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Goal11, one of the 17 SDGs, is about all of these dimensions, with a specific focus on urban areas and settings. This synthesis report is the first publication showing the progress, challenges and opportunities of global monitoring of this Sustainable Development Goal. This report complements the 2018 Secretary-General’s Progress Report on SDGs which shows progress in the form of story lines, and the 2018 Secretary-General’s first quadrennial report on progress made in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda.
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Source/Issuing Agency:UN-Habitat
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Kenya, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 11 July 2018
Keywords:
Cities
Language:
English
Resource Type:
Report
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