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Disability Inclusion

Promoting disability inclusion across the operations and programming of the United Nations system is fundamental step in upholding human rights and achieving the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and at the World Humanitarian Summit. Human rights, peace and security and sustainable development for all...

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Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

The UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Towards a Risk-informed and Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development, was endorsed in April 2016, committing the UN system to: 1) strengthen system-wide coherence in support of the Sendai Framework and other agreements, through a risk-informed and integrated...

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Drug Policies

The global drug problem, which affects approximately 275 million people, presents a complex global challenge that is closely interlinked with sustainable development, peace and security and human rights. Combatting the problem is therefore integral to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By adopting the outcome...

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Duties to the Future

HLCP is pursuing the elaboration of the concept of duties to the future through the lens of intergenerational equity by forming a common, scientifically-backed understanding of the impact of today’s actions across multiple generations and fostering a concerted normative and legal push to enshrine a global responsibility towards...

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Education and Learning

The UN system-wide strategic approach for achieving inclusive, equitable and innovative education and learning for all was endorsed by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) in May 2019, an output of their deliberations on the socio-economic implications of new and emerging technologies. The strategic approach...

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Financing for Sustainable Development

The financing gap to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries is estimated to be US$ 2.5 - 3 trillion per year (UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2014). However, available finance is not channeled towards sustainable development at the scale and speed required to meet the objectives of the 2030 Agenda...

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Food

Since 2014 the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise. An estimated almost 690 million people, or 8.9 percent of the global population, were undernourished in 2019. If current trends continue, the number of undernourished people will exceed 840 million by 2030. In other words, the world is not on...

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Foresight

In its own effort to apply innovative working methods, with the aim of supporting the attainment of the 2030 Agenda and beyond, the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), at its thirty-sixth session in October 2018, engaged in an exploratory discussion on strategic foresight. Recognizing the considerable benefit of anticipatory...

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• Human Resources Network (HRN)

Future of Work

The UN system strategy on the future of work, a product stemming from deliberations by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) on the socio-economic implications of new and emerging technologies, was endorsed by the Board in May 2019. It provides a shared approach towards assisting Member States in addressing...

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Gender Equality

The Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) has continuously reaffirmed the UN system’s shared commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, taking steps in mainstreaming a gender perspective in United Nations policies, programmes, and decision-making.