The Pacific Response: Sustainable Livelihoods Challenge, launched on 24 April 2020, came to a successful conclusion on Friday 22 May 2020, with several innovative social impact projects emerging as winners.
Humanity needs leadership and solidarity to defeat COVID-19
In 2019, #NextGenUNDP continued to refocus an organization born into a different generation, making us ready for this one and the next. Pushing the boundaries of how we think, invest, manage and deliver to drive progress towards the SDGs.
Concerted action with a focus on equity could still limit the impacts of this unprecedented crisis: closing the digital divide would reduce by more than two-thirds the number of children currently not learning because of school closures.
Sometimes life can be hard to deal with, trained counselors with Empower Pacific are waiting to help. Call or text the 24 hour helplines: 2937141 / 7765626. Empower Pacific's counselling helplines are supported by the EU-funded Fiji Access to Justice Project.
UNDP together with the people of Japan and the Government of Palau are on a solid path to achieving long term climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods for the people of Palau.
Although several posts have been written on possible ‘new normals’, ‘the next normal’ and tracking signals of disruption — from policy to citizen driven (COVID19 triggered) responses, it is uncertainty that remains the common denominator.
COVID-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery
Global human development – which can be measured as a combination of the world’s education, health and living standards – could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990.
Concerted action with a focus on equity could still limit the impacts of this unprecedented crisis: closing the digital divide would reduce by more than two thirds the number of children currently not learning because of school closures.
BLOG | How Vanuatu ran a successful election during a pandemic: lessons learnt
When the World Health Organisation declared the Coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of international concern, the government of Vanuatu established a COVID-19 National Task Force to advise government authorities and coordinate their response. Eight days before polling day, WHO recognised the outbreak as a pandemic. Vanuatu was faced with the difficult choice of holding or postponing elections. While the safety of citizens was critical, so was their right to vote in a free and fair election.
BLOG | FSM Congress becomes the first Pacific legislature to convene a virtual session
Human rights become more relevant when they are most in danger, the German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, had said. In a similar vein, the relevance of parliaments’ increases during a crisis. The more severe the crisis, the more significant the role Parliament should play to legislate and oversee all governmental actions.
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10.5 million
Total population
7.5%
Women in parliament
$2678.2
GNI per capita
0.645
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