Partnerships for the Goals
Integridad de la información en las plataformas digitales
Jun 2023
Working Paper
El presente informe de políticas se centra en cómo las amenazas a la integridad de la información repercuten en el progreso de las cuestiones globales, nacionales y locales. En Nuestra Agenda Común, defendí un consenso común y empírico en torno a los hechos, la ciencia y el conocimiento. A tal fin, aquí se describen someramente los posibles principios de un código de conducta que ayude a orientar a los Estados Miembros, las plataformas digitales y otras partes interesadas en sus esfuerzos por hacer que el espacio digital sea más inclusivo y seguro para todos, defendiendo al mismo tiempo a capa y espada el derecho a la libertad de opinión y de expresión y el derecho de acceso a la información. El código de conducta para la integridad de la información en las plataformas digitales se está elaborando en el contexto de los preparativos de la Cumbre del Futuro.
Целостность информации на цифровых платформах
Jun 2023
Working Paper
Настоящая концептуальная записка посвящена тому, как угрозы для информационной добросовестности сказываются на прогрессе в решении глобальных, национальных и естных проблем. В «Нашей общей повестке дня» я призвал к эмпирически выверенному консенсусу в отношении фактов, научных выкладок и знаний. Поэтому в настоящей записке излагаются потенциальные принципы для кодекса поведения, который поможет сориентировать государства-члены, цифровые платформы и другие заинтересованные стороны в их усилиях, призванных сделать цифровое пространство инклюзивнее и безопаснее для всех, энергично защищая при этом право на свободу мнений и их свободное выражение и право на доступ к информации. В контексте подготовки к Саммиту будущего разрабатывается кодекс поведения для обеспечения информационной добросовестности на цифровых платформах. Надеюсь, он станет золотым стандартом в качестве ориентира для действий по упрочению информационной добросовестности.
سلامة المعلومات على المنصات الرقمية
Jun 2023
Working Paper
ويركز هذا الموجز السياساتي على الأخطار التي تتهدد سلامة المعلومات وأثرها على التقدم المحرز في القضايا العالمية والوطنية والمحلية. وكنت دعوت في خطتنا المشتركة إلى توافق مشترك تدعمه التجارب ويرتكز على الحقيقة والعلم والمعرفة. ولبلوغ هذه الغاية، يعرض هذا الموجز بإجمال المبادئ الممكن إدراجها ضمن مدونة لقواعد السلوك تساعد في توجيه ما تبذله الدول الأعضاء والمنصات الرقمية والأطراف الأخرى صاحبة المصلحة من جهود في سبيل جعل الفضاء الرقمي أكثر شمولا وأمانا للجميع، مع الدفاع المستميت عن الحق في حرية الرأي والتعبير والحق في الحصول على المعلومات. ويجري إعداد مدونة قواعد السلوك لتعزيز سلامة المعلومات على المنصات الرقمية ضمن سياق الأعمال التحضيرية لمؤتمر القمة المعني بالمستقبل. وأمَلي أن توفر تلك المدونة المرجع الأسمى في توجيه العمل المضطلع به من أجل تعزيز سلامة المعلومات.
Intégrité de l’information sur les plateformes numériques
Jun 2023
Working Paper
La présente note d’orientation porte principalement sur la manière dont les menaces pesant sur l’intégrité de l’information influencent les progrès réalisés aux niveaux mondial, national et local. Dans Notre Programme commun, j’ai préconisé un consensus construit collectivement sur l’expérience et portant sur les faits, la science et la connaissance. À cette fin, la présente note d’orientation expose les principes potentiels d’un code de conduite qui aidera à guider les États Membres, les plateformes numériques et les autres parties prenantes dans les efforts qu’ils déploient pour rendre l’espace numérique plus inclusif et plus sûr pour tous et toutes, tout en défendant vigoureusement le droit à la liberté d’opinion et d’expression ainsi que le droit d’accès à l’information. Le code de conduite portant sur l’intégrité de l’information diffusée sur les plateformes numériques est en cours d’élaboration dans le cadre des préparatifs du Sommet de l’avenir.
How Can We Accelerate Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Insights From the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report
Mar 2024
Working Paper
This policy brief summarizes three key recommendations from the 2023 GSDR on how to accelerate progress across all SDGs: (1) we must aim for transformation in key systems where SDGs are closely interlinked; (2) we should shape interventions deliberately according to where a country is along its trajectory of transformation; and (3) we must build capacity for cohesive, forward looking and evidence-informed action. These insights can help decision-makers match actions to ambitions in the second half of the journey toward 2030. The recommendations can also help the United Nations mobilize action and investment around the six transitions that were identified as critical pathways toward the SDGs at the SDG Summit.
Using Large Language Models to Help Train Machine Learning SDG Classifiers
Nov 2023
Working Paper
This paper proposes the use of synthetic training data generated by large language models to improve machine learning SDG classifiers. It shows that supplementing existing training data with synthetic data produced by the ChatGPT tool improves the performance of the SDGClassy classifier. This addition of synthetic data is especially useful in building SDG classifiers given the limited availability of properly labeled data and the complex, interconnected nature of the SDGs. Synthetic data thus enable more effective machine-learning applications in this context.
Return-on-Investment in National Digital Transformation: Exploring the Development Impact of Digital
Apr 2024
Working Paper
Digital transformation is often measured in the context of systems and subscribers—for example, increases in 4G mobile coverage, numbers of active users and the value of financial investment in hardware and software. This results in digital being seen solely through the lens of solutions and not outcomes. This brief highlights the importance of broadening our measurement of digital transformation: ‘return-on investment in digital transformation’ (RoI-DT) aims to position digital approaches as key to achieving development outcomes. This includes the role of digital in reducing poverty, improving equality and protecting the planet. By broadening the definition of impact and return-on investment, the development community can better integrate digital as a key human development enabler—and one that should no longer be solely the responsibility of digital, technical or IT teams and experts.
Breaking the Disaster-response Cycle in SIDS: Aligning Financing to Urgent Climate Action
May 2024
Working Paper
This policy brief focuses on the specific issue of disaster-response for three reasons. First, the disaster-response cycle describes a well-documented pattern of fiscal surge and a crowding out effect over much needed adaptation investments; second, climate vulnerability will only increase the volatility of this cycle in the future, threatening both the prospects for sustainable and inclusive growth as well as an increasingly untenable trajectory for fiscal sustainability; and third, because fiscal and financial capital flows to SIDS pose a challenge to the international financial architecture at large. The characteristics of the problem are known, as well as the size of the fiscal and financial burdens; this is a problem that would not be a problem if the incentives for public and private capital flows were aligned in the right direction. This presents a challenge for the multilateral system at large.
Fit for Purpose? Area-Based Programming in Contemporary Crisis and Development Response
Dec 2023
Working Paper
Amidst increasingly protracted and complex crises and ‘development emergencies’, the operational environment for development agencies like UNDP requires programming approaches that can be applied across the humanitarian development-peace nexus. These approaches must integrate interventions from multiple sectors and be truly locally owned. After decades of use in development practice, area-based programming (ABP) still has the potential to meet these simultaneous needs. This paper explores the unique characteristics of ABP and its applicability to complex development and crisis settings. It further proposes new frontiers of practice moving forward.
ООН 2.0 Культура перспективного мышления и передовые навыки для повышения результативности системы Организации Объединенных Наций
Sep 2023
Working Paper
Настоящая концептуальная записка представляет собой план дальнейших действий. В ней описаны встроенные в культуру рычаги воздействия, составляющие основу наших организационных преобразований, а также «пятерка изменений», которая на них опирается. Несмотря на то, что все направления концепции «ООН 2.0» представлены по отдельности, они взаимосвязаны и взаимно дополняют друг друга. В каждой главе мы наглядно демонстрируем потенциал воздействия, объясняем, почему мы переориентируем подходы, отмечаем, где мы находимся сейчас, излагаем наши цели и описываем, как мы меняемся. В данной концептуальной записке мы закладываем широкую основу для изменений и задаем направление для разработки более подробных стратегий, планов и инициатив. Каждая структура системы ООН будет самостоятельно заниматься реализацией концепции «ООН 2.0», продвигаясь по своему собственному пути. Каждый элемент «пятерки изменений» неповторимым образом отразится на каждой структуре — в зависимости от ее мандата и соответствующих условий.
ONU 2.0 Una cultura orientada al futuro y competencias de vanguardia para aumentar el impacto del sistema de las Naciones Unidas
Sep 2023
Working Paper
El presente informe de políticas traza el rumbo que se tomará. En él se describen los motores culturales que constituyen el fundamento de nuestra transformación institucional, junto con el “quinteto de cambios” que se basa en él. Si bien se presentan por separado, todas las esferas de la ONU 2.0 están interconectadas y se refuerzan entre sí. En cada capítulo, ilustramos el potencial de impacto, explicamos el porqué del cambio de planteamiento, destacamos nuestra situación actual, enunciamos nuestros objetivos y describimos cómo estamos cambiando. Con este informe de políticas, proporcionamos un marco amplio para el cambio y ofrecemos orientación para estrategias, planes e iniciativas más detallados. Cada entidad de las Naciones Unidas recorrerá su propio camino para hacer realidad la visión de la ONU 2.0. Cada elemento del “quinteto de cambios” ocupará un espacio singular en cada entidad, en función del mandato y el contexto.
UN 2.0 Forward-thinking Culture and Cutting-edge Skills for Better United Nations System Impact
Sep 2023
Working Paper
The present policy brief charts the journey ahead. It describes the cultural levers that form the foundation of our organizational transformation, along with the “quintet of change” that builds on it. While introduced separately, all UN 2.0 areas are interconnected and mutually reinforcing. In each chapter, we illustrate the potential for impact, explain why we shift approaches, highlight where we are now, outline our goals and describe how we are changing. With this policy brief, we provide a broad framework for change and offer direction for more detailed strategies, plans and initiatives. Each United Nations entity will pursue its own journey towards the UN 2.0 vision, progressing along its own path. Every element of the “quintet of change” will have a unique footprint in every entity – tailored to mandate and context.
تجديد الأمم المتحدة بناء ثقافة التفكير الاستشرافي والتزود بأحدث المهارات من أجل تأثير أعمق لمنظومة الأمم المتحدة
Sep 2023
Working Paper
يرسم هذا الموجز السياساتي معالم العمل مستقبلا. فهو يصف الدعائم الثقافية التي تشكل أساس تحولنا التنظيمي، علاوة على “خماسية التغيير” التي تستند إليها. وعلى الرغم من عرض جميع مجالات رؤية تجديد الأمم المتحدة على نحو منفصل، فعناصرها مترابطة ومتعاضدة. وفي كل فصل، نوضح الفوائد الممكنة، ونشرح سبب تغيير النُّهج، ونسلط الضوء على المرحلة التي بلغناها الآن، ونرسم أهدافنا ونصف أوجه التغيير الذي يطرأ على أساليب عملنا. فنحن بهذا الموجز السياساتي نقدم إطارا واسعا للتغيير ونسدي التوجيه من أجل وضع استراتيجيات وخطط ومبادرات أكثر تفصيلا. وسيمضي كل كيان من كيانات الأمم المتحدة في رحلته صوب تحقيق رؤية تجديد الأمم المتحدة ويسير على المسار الذي اختطه لنفسه. وسيكون لكل عنصر من عناصر “خماسية التغيير” وقع فريد في كل كيان على حدة كما سيكون تصميمه ملائما لطبيعة السياق الذي تعمل فيه والولاية التي تنهض بها.
联合国2.0 培育前瞻性文化和尖端 技能以提高联合国系统 的影响力
Sep 2023
Working Paper
本政策简报描绘了未来征程,介绍了构成我们组织变革基础的文化杠杆,以及建立在此基础上的 “变革五重奏”。虽然是分别介绍,但联合国2.0 的所有领域都是相互关联、相辅相承的。在每一章中,我们都会说明产生影响的潜力,解释我们为什么要转变方法,介绍我们目前的状况,概述我们的目标,说明我们正在如何转变。通过这份政策简报,我们提供一个广泛的变革框架,并为更详细的战略、计划和倡议指明方向。每个联合国实体都将在实现联合国2.0愿景的征程中,沿着自己的道路不断前进。“变革五重奏” 中的每一个要素都将根据各个实体的任务和背景量身定制,并在每个实体中留下独特的足迹。
ONU 2.0 Une culture d’avant-garde et des compétences de pointe pour améliorer l’impact du système des Nations Unies
Sep 2023
Working Paper
Dans la présente note d’orientation se trouve la voie à suivre. On y décrit les leviers culturels qui constituent le fondement de notre transformation institutionnelle, sur lequel s’appuient les cinq axes de changement. Bien que présentés séparément, tous les domaines relevant de l’ONU 2.0 sont liés entre eux et se renforcent mutuellement. Dans chaque chapitre, nous donnons des exemples pouvant avoir un impact, expliquons pourquoi nous changeons de cap, mettons en lumière notre situation actuelle, exposons nos objectifs et décrivons la manière dont nous opérons le changement. La présente note d’orientation est l’occasion pour nous de proposer un cadre général pour le changement et de donner des orientations dans l’optique de stratégies, de plans et d’initiatives plus détaillés. Chaque entité des Nations Unies poursuivra sa propre voie vers la réalisation de l’ambition incarnée par l’ONU 2.0, selon des modalités qui lui sont propres. Chacun des cinq axes de changement aura, dans chaque entité, une empreinte unique, qui sera fonction du mandat et du contexte institutionnels.
Participación significativa de los jóvenes en los procesos decisorios y de elaboración de políticas
Apr 2023
Working Paper
Los desafíos que enfrentamos sólo pueden abordarse mediante una cooperación internacional más sólida. La Cumbre del Futuro en 2024 es una oportunidad para acordar soluciones multilaterales para un mañana mejor, fortaleciendo la gobernanza global para las generaciones presentes y futuras. Hoy, el mundo dispone de los conocimientos y recursos necesarios para cumplir la promesa de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, pero los cambios transformadores no serán posibles a la escala necesaria sin la participación y la contribución de un amplio abanico de actores. lo cual es especialmente cierto en el caso de los 1.200 millones de personas jóvenes de hoy.
إبرام اتفاق إبرام اتفاق من أجل مستقبل من أجل مستقبل من أجل مستقبل
May 2023
Working Paper
ويقترح هذا الموجز إبرام ميثاق رقمي عالمي يضع المبادئ والأهداف والإجراءات اللازمة لتحقيق مستقبل رقمي مفتوح وحر وآمن يتخذ من الإنسان محوره ومن حقوق الإنسان العالمية مرتكزه ومن بلوغ أهداف التنمية المستدامة هدفه ومبتغاه. ويتطرق الموجز إلى المجالات التي تشتد فيها الحاجة إلى التعاون الرقمي بين الأطراف المتعددة صاحبة المصلحة ويبين السبل التي يمكن من خلالها للاتفاق الرقمي العالمي أن يساعد في تحقيق التزام الإعلان الصادر بمناسبة الاحتفال بالذكرى السنوية الخامسة والسبعين لإنشاء الأمم المتحدة )قرار الجمعية العامة 75 / 1( ألا وهو “بلورة رؤيةٍ مشتركة بشأن التعاون الرقمي” من طريق توفير إطار عالمي شامل. ووجود هذا الإطار ضروري لما يتعين على الأطراف المتعددة صاحبة المصلحة اتخاذه من إجراءات للتغلب على الفجوات في المجال الرقمي ومجالي البيانات والابتكار ولتنفيذ الإدارة اللازمة لتحقيق مستقبل رقمي مستدام.
重视重要的事情:超越国内生产总值的框架
May 2023
Working Paper
在《2030年可持续发展议程》和《我们的共同议程》中,认识到在全球决策的核心存在一种与时代脱节的有害做法,即我们的经济模型和计量方法忽视了维持生命和促进人类福祉的许多方面,竟然过分看重耗竭地球的各种活动的价值。本政策简报中的提议目的不是为了取代国内生产总值,而是勾勒出一条制定补充指标的途径,在这些指标中更加充分地承认对人类、地球和未来具有重要性的方面。
مشاركة الشباب بكيفية مجدية في عمليات وضع السياسات واتخاذ القرارات
Apr 2023
Working Paper
يمتلك العالم اليوم المعارف والموارد اللازمة للوفاء بالوعد المقطوع في خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 . ولكن المؤكد أن التغييرات التحويلية التي يتعين إجراؤها بالحجم المطلوب لن تتحقق دون انخراط طائفة عريضة من الجهات الفاعلة ومساهمتها فيها. وهذا أمر ينطبق بشكل خاص على الشباب الذين يناهز عددهم 1,2 بليون نسمة في الوقت الراهن. فالشباب عنصر أساسي لإيجاد حلول جديدة تكون كفيلة بتحقيق الطفرات النوعية التي يحتاج إليها عالمنا عاجلا. وباعتبارهم أوصياء هذا الكوكب في المستقبل، فإنهم سيكونون أيضا الأشد خسارة إن أصبحت المجتمعات أقل أمنا ومساواة واستمرت أزمة الكوكب الثلاثية استمرارا لا هوادة فيه. وقد غدا الشباب في السنوات الأخيرة قوة تدفع عجلة التغيير المجتمعي من خلال التعبئة الاجتماعية، كالضغط من أجل العمل المناخي، والسعي إلى تحقيق العدالة العرقية وتعزيز المساواة بين الجنسين والمطالبة بالكرامة للجميع. وثمة أيضا أمثلة لا حصر لها من الشباب الذين يحملون لواء التغيير المبتكر في مجموعة من الميادين مثل الأعمال التجارية والتكنولوجيا والعلوم.
Глобальный цифровой договор: открытое, свободное и защищенное цифровое будущее для всех
May 2023
Working Paper
В настоящей записке предлагается разработать Глобальный цифровой договор, где излагались бы принципы, задачи и действия по продвижению к открытому, свободному и защищенному цифровому будущему — будущему, в котором во главу угла поставлены люди, которое зиждется на универсальных правах человека и которое позволяет достичь целей в области устойчивого развития. В записке обозначены области, в которых остро ощу-щается потребность в многостороннем цифровом сотрудничестве. В ней также поясняется, как, задавая инклюзивный глобальный рамочный механизм, Глобальный цифровой договор может помочь с реализацией обязательства, которое содержится в Декларации о праздновании семьдесят пятой годовщины Организации Объединенных Наций (резолюция 75/1 Генеральной Ассамблеи) и предусматривает «формирование общего видения цифрового сотрудничества». Такой механизм принципиально важен для многосторонних действий, которых требует преодоление циф-рового, даталогического и инновационного разрывов, и для достижения такого порядка управления, который требуется для устойчивого цифрового будущего.
Valoriser ce qui compte – un cadre pour aller au-delà du produit intérieur brut
May 2023
Working Paper
Dans le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 et dans Notre Programme commun, nous faisons le constat qu’il y a, au coeur de l’élaboration des politiques publiques à l’échelle mondiale, un anachronisme néfaste : nos modèles et mesures économiques égligent de nombreux aspects qui permettent de préserver la vie et contribuent au bien-être de l’être humain alors qu’elles accordent perversement une valeur disproportionnée aux activités qui appauvrissent la planète. Les propositions présentées dans ce document ne visent pas le remplacement du produit intérieur brut. Elles ont plutôt pour objet d’esquisser une voie en vue de l’élaboration d’indicateurs complémentaires qui donnent davantage de place à ce qui est important pour les personnes, la planète et l’avenir.
Un Pacto Digital Global – un futuro digital abierto, libre y seguro para todas las personas
May 2023
Working Paper
Este informe propone el desarrollo de un Pacto Digital Global que establezca principios, objeti¬vos y acciones para promover un futuro digital abierto, libre, seguro y centrado en el ser humano, anclado en los derechos humanos universales y que permita alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. En él se describen las áreas en las que la necesidad de una cooperación digital multilateral es urgente y se expone cómo un Pacto Digital Global puede contribuir a hacer realidad el compromiso expresado en la declaración sobre la conmemoración del 75º aniversario de las Naciones Unidas (resolución 75/1 de la Asamblea General) de “forjar una concepción común de la cooperación digital”, proporcionando un marco global inclusivo. Este marco es esencial para la acción multipartita necesaria para superar las brechas digital, de datos y de innovación, así como lograr la gobernanza necesaria para un futuro digital sostenible.
Valorar lo que cuenta - un marco para ir más allá del producto interno bruto
May 2023
Working Paper
En la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y “Nuestra Agenda Común” se reconoce la existencia de un anacronismo perjudicial en el corazón de la formulación de políticas mundiales, que nuestros modelos y mediciones económicas pasan por alto muchos aspectos que sostienen la vida y contribuyen al bienestar humano, mientras que otorgan un valor perversamente desproporcionado a las actividades que agotan el planeta. La intención de las propuestas presentadas en este informe de políticas no es sustituir al producto interno bruto (PIB), sino describir a grandes rasgos un camino hacia parámetros complementarios que se centren de forma más integral en lo que importa a las personas, al planeta y al futuro.
Participation véritable des jeunes à l’élaboration des politiques et à la prise des décisions
Apr 2023
Working Paper
Les défis auxquels nous sommes confrontés ne peuvent être relevés que grâce à une coopération internationale plus forte. Le Sommet de l’avenir de 2024 est l’occasion de convenir de solutions multilatérales pour un avenir meilleur, en renforçant la gouvernance mondiale pour les générations présentes et futures. Le monde possède aujourd’hui les connaissances et les ressources nécessaires pour réaliser la promesse portée par le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030. Mais les profondes transformations qui s’imposent ne pourront se faire sans l’adhésion et la contribution d’une multitude d’acteurs et en particulier du 1,2 milliard de jeunes vivant actuellement sur la planète.
Обеспечение значимого участия молодежи в процессах формирования политики и принятия решений
Apr 2023
Working Paper
Сегодня мир располагает знаниями и ресурсами, необходимыми для выполнения обещаний, сформулированных в Повестке дня в области устойчивого развития на период до 2030 года. Однако преобразующие изменения в необходимых масштабах просто не могут быть реализованы без участия и вклада широкого круга сторон. Особенно это касается 1,2 миллиарда ныне живущих молодых людей. Молодежь — это ключ к поиску новых решений, которые позволят сделать решительный прорыв, срочно необходимый для нашего мира. Молодые люди, которым в будущем предстоит взять на себя ответственность за планету, могут также потерять больше всех, если отсутствие безопасности и неравенство в обществе усугубятся и если тройственный планетарный кризис продолжится с той же силой. В последние годы молодежь стала движущей силой социальных изменений, реализуемых через мобилизацию общественности, — она добивается принятия мер по защите климата, выступает за расовую справедливость, способствует достижению гендерного равенства и требует уважения достоинства для всех. Имеются также бесчисленные примеры того, как молодые люди выступают в качестве инициаторов инновационных изменений во многих сферах, таких как предпринимательская деятельность, технологии и наука.
Harnessing the Potential of Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence for Risk Anticipation and Violence Prevention
Aug 2023
Working Paper
Development organizations and conflict experts struggle to manage the magnitude, complexity and persistent volatility that characterize contemporary crises. Conflicts evolve at such a rapid pace that the amount of data produced by conflict or crisis situations is simply overwhelming. Because of the sheer amount of data and the pace at which they are being produced, human beings are unable to track crisis evolutions and manage effective decision-making processes. Under these radically changing circumstances, artificial intelligence (AI) can help us understand, and even anticipate, the outbreak and evolution of a crisis. Human-in-the-loop (HITL) AI combines the power of machine learning with human intelligence to address complex issues. This brief presents examples from Afghanistan and Ukraine to showcase applications of HILT artificial intelligence in the sphere of conflict resolution, particularly emphasizing risk anticipation and violence prevention.
Multidimensional Vulnerability and Sovereign Debt
Aug 2022
Working Paper
Lack of fiscal space and the risk of sovereign debt distress remain key stumbling blocks to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries. Because the allocation of concessional funds and debt relief is essentially reserved to Low Income countries (LICs), official financing strategies and mechanisms to support developing countries provide insufficient support to non-LICs that may need and deserve special consideration concerning official financing. This paper discusses how official financial support allocation could consider countries’ vulnerabilities in critical dimensions, with special reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It explores how a multidimensional vulnerability indexes (MVI) could be used to expand the access of vulnerable countries to official financing, including concessional financing, and facilitate constructive debt restructuring when they need it.
全球数字契约——人人开放、自由和安全的数字未来
May 2023
Working Paper
本简报建议制定一项《全球数字契约》,为推进开放、自由、安全、以人为本的数字未来制定原则、目标和行动,这种未来以普遍人权为基础,使实现可持续发展目标成为可能。简报概述了迫切需要多利益攸关方数字合作的领域,并阐述了《全球数字契约》如何通过提供包容性的全球框架,促进实现纪念联合国成立七十五周年宣言(大会第75/1 号决议)中关于“勾画数字合作共同愿景” 的承诺。这样一个框架至关重要,以采取多利益攸关方行动来克服数字、数据和创新鸿沟,并实现可持续数字未来所需的治理。
إضفاء القيمة على الأشياء ذات الأهمية: إطار عمل لتجاوز الناتج المحلي الإجمالي
May 2023
Working Paper
وقد أقُرَّ في خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030 وفي تقريري المعنون “خطتنا المشتركة” بوجود مفارقة ضارة في صلب عملية صوغ السياسات على الصعيد العالمي، وهي أن نماذجنا ومقاييسنا الاقتصادية تتجاهل العديد من الجوانب التي تحافظ على الحياة وتسهم في رفاه الإنسان، وتمعن في الوقت ذاته وعلى نحو غير سليم في إضفاء قيمة مفرطة على الأنشطة التي تستنزف الكوكب. والقصد من وراء المقترحات المعروضة في هذا الموجز السياساتي ليس هو الاستعاضة عن الناتج المحلي الإجمالي وإنما هو رسم مسار لوضع مقاييس تكميلية تركز تركيزا أكمل على الجوانب التي تنطوي على أهمية بالنسبة إلى الناس والكوكب والمستقبل.
Un Pacte numérique mondial – un avenir numérique ouvert, libre et sûr pour tout le monde
May 2023
Working Paper
La présente note porte sur l’établissement d’un Pacte numérique mondial qui définirait des prin¬cipes, des objectifs et des actions visant à promou¬voir un avenir numérique ouvert, libre, sûr et centré sur l’être humain, ancré dans les droits humains universels et permettant d’atteindre les objectifs de développement durable. Elle indique les domaines dans lesquels il importe d’établir une coopéra¬tion multipartite dans le domaine du numérique et expose en quoi un Pacte numérique mondial peut aider à concrétiser l’engagement pris dans la dé¬claration faite à l’occasion de la célébration du soixante-quinzième anniversaire de l’Organisation des Nations Unies (résolution 75/1 de l’Assemblée générale), à savoir élaborer « une vision commune en ce qui concerne la coopération numérique » au moyen d’un cadre mondial inclusif. Un tel cadre est essentiel pour que l’on puisse mener une action multipartite et combler les fossés existant dans les domaines du numérique, des données et de l’innovation, et mettre en place une gouvernance indispensable à un avenir numérique durable.
青年有意义地参与政策制定和决策过程
Apr 2023
Working Paper
当今世界拥有实现《2030年可持续发展议 程》承诺所需的知识和资源。但是,如果没有 广泛行为体的支持和贡献,以所需的规模实 现转型性变革是根本不可能的。对于生活在 当今世界中的12亿青年人来说尤其如此。青年是找到新解决办法、确保实现我们世界 所迫切需要的突破的关键。作为地球未来 的守护者,如果社会变得更加不安全和不平 等,如果地球三大危机继续有增无减,他们 也将遭受最大的损失。近年来,青年人通过 社会动员成为社会变革的推动力,包括推动 气候行动、寻求种族正义、促进性别平等和 要求人人享有尊严。青年人在商业、技术和 科学等众多领域推动创新变革的例子也不胜 枚举。
Ценим то, что имеет значение: основа для достижения прогресса за пределами валового внутреннего продукта
May 2023
Working Paper
В Повестке дня в области устойчивого развития на период до 2030 года и в «Нашей общей повестке дня» отмечается, что в основе глобального формирования политики лежит вредный анахронизм, который заключается в том, что в наших экономических моделях и параметрах упускаются из виду многие аспекты, поддерживающие жизнь и способствующие обеспечению благосостояния людей, и в то же время придается аномально и несоразмерно высокая значимость деятельности, истощающей планету. Цель предложений, представленных в настоящей концептуальной записке, состоит не в том, чтобы заменить валовой внутренний продукт, а в том, чтобы наметить путь к разработке дополнительных показателей, которые в более полной мере учитывают то, что важно для людей, для планеты и для будущего.
The Human Cost of Inaction: Poverty, Social Protection and Debt Servicing, 2020–2023
Jul 2023
Working Paper
Twenty-five developing economies, the highest number since 2000, spent over 20 percent of their government revenues in 2022 on total external debt servicing. The average low-income country spends about 2.3 times more on interest payments than on social assistance. Due to the economic shocks during 2020-2023, we project that 165 million people fell into poverty using the $3.65-a-day poverty line—the entirety of those living in low- and lower-middle-income economies. A pause in debt payments would allow developing economies weighed down by debt to mitigate some social effects of these shocks, using resources earmarked for debt servicing. This policy brief presents simulations that show that the annual cost of mitigating the additional 165 million poor would reach US$14.24 billion, or 0.009 percent of global GDP and a little less than 4 percent of total public external debt service in 2022—if the income losses among the already poor prior to the shocks are also included, the mitigation cost would reach US$107.11 billion, or 0.065 percent of the world’s GDP and around a fourth of total external public debt service.
Durable Transformation and Structural Changes for Gender Equality Through PFMS and Budgetary Circles
Jun 2023
Working Paper
This paper showcases how a model that uses gender-responsive budgeting as a tool to promote gender equality, developed in the context of the Programme for Consolidating Economic Governance and PFMS in the PALOP-TL countries, Pro PALOP-TL SAI, leads to transformational and structural changes in PFMS and, consequently, results in more gender-equal economies and gender equality in the referenced countries (and could also be applied to other countries or at regional/global levels).
UNDP Debt Update: Development Gives Way to Debt
Feb 2025
Working Paper
UNDP has been tracking debt vulnerabilities across developing economies and the availability and appropriateness of international relief measures. Accompanying UNDP's latest Debt Insights update, this UNDP Development Futures Series policy brief presents a snapshot of the current situation and outlook and discusses the needed international policy priorities. Central debt vulnerability indicators remain highly elevated and have continued to worsen across many countries, thereby intensifying a trade-off between development spending and a high and rising debt service burden, with especially devastating consequences in the poorest of countries. For countries that have restructured debt, economic costs have been substantial due to protracted negotiations pending a more formalized and predictable restructuring regime, and deals have delivered inadequate and uncertain relief. If support for debt relief is not stepped up, the situation could easily morph into longer-term solvency crises in more countries. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) this year is an opportunity to tackle debt by focusing on ensuring easier access to an effective debt restructuring process, agreeing to a large-scale debt relief initiative for the poorest countries and on ways to lower the cost of borrowing. If the conference fails to deliver, poor countries could be in for another lost decade of development.
Thematic Bonds and How to Deliver More Sustainable Finance in Developing Economies
Jun 2024
Working Paper
Sustainability-themed bonds are growing in popularity, including among development practitioners who view them as promising instruments in the delivery of more, especially climate, finance in developing economies. This UNDP Development Futures Working Paper provides an overview of the thematic bonds market and a discussion of issuer incentives as well as some of the main challenges related to additionality and credibility. To improve the potential of thematic bonds as a tool for sustainable and equitable development, the paper proposes five features that any official sector-supported model should prioritize. These features aim to deliver substantially lower funding costs for ‘green activities’ and improve market access as well as the credibility of bonds, which include strengthening issuer commitments to ambitious targets and incentives to implement climate-friendly policies. Finally, it is important to recognize the limitations of donor-supported models. High debt burdens in many countries limit the use of debt instruments, and these will compete for limited official sector funds with other, potentially fairer, means of delivering climate finance.
The Integrated Nature of the Sustainable Development Goals as a Lever for Trust, Institutional Resilience and Innovation
Sep 2024
Working Paper
This policy brief explores how Governments can assess competing policy priorities, manage trade-offs and enhance synergies to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, drawing from expert contributions to Chapter 2 of the World Public Sector Report 2023: Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic. Renewed efforts in enhancing policy coherence are required to leverage synergies at different levels and unleash the transformations needed to achieve the SDGs. However, public entities face challenges in identifying and leveraging SDG interdependencies and translating relevant plans into action. The brief highlights actionable ways to support integration and address existing barriers to unlock SDG progress in a way that contributes to building trust, enhancing resilience and advancing innovation.
Policy Choices for Leaving No One Behind (LNOB): Overview From 2023 SDG Summit Commitments
Aug 2024
Working Paper
In the lead up to the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit (18-19 September, New York), the Secretary-General urged all Member States and stakeholders to present forward looking commitments to accelerate sustainable development in the coming years. A total of 39 Member States and 1 non-member observer state submitted 141 commitments via the SDG Summit Acceleration and Accountability Platform. This policy brief reviews these national commitments from the 2023 SDG Summit, focusing on how countries are translating the leaving no one behind (LNoB) concept into different policies across various country settings.
Reimagining Financing for the SDGs - From Filling Gaps to Shaping Finance
Jan 2025
Working Paper
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously off track. The prevailing “gap-filling” approach to SDG financing has proven inadequate, failing to deliver the scale, impact or equity required. Global efforts remain fixated on mobilizing additional financing rather than embedding the SDGs at the core of economic and financial systems. Blended finance, often heralded as a silver bullet, has fallen short: public resources dominate blended deals, often de-risking private initiative in lower-risk, lower-impact projects. To redirect this trajectory, the international financing architecture must be reshaped around the SDGs. First, the SDGs must be placed at the centre of economic planning, supported by robust public investment pipelines. These pipelines enable the public sector to guide and strategically mobilize private investment toward high-impact, mission-driven projects. Second, SDG-anchored conditionalities should be embedded across public-private ventures to ensure concessional public finance actively steers investments, rather than merely subsidizing private returns. Third, mechanisms to socialize risks and rewards must be introduced, reinvesting returns to scale transformative SDG financing. Finally, while mobilizing additional financing remains critical, an equally pressing challenge lies in effectively utilizing significant public funds already available in budgets and development bank balance sheets.
SDG Budget Tagging: A proposal to measure SDG Financing
Apr 2024
Working Paper
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing is gaining global interest in the Decade of Action (2020–2030). Without an adequate assessment of the SDG financing flows, government actions can fail to accelerate SDG achievement. This document presents an SDG budget-tagging methodology to measure and strengthen countries’ SDG financing diagnostics. The methodology can be applied to (i) national and subnational budgets; (ii) international development cooperation to strengthen its monitoring; and (iii) identifying potentially eligible projects in private financing strategies. In addition to strengthening SDG financing diagnostics, when accompanied by data visualization tools, SDG budget tagging can strengthen fiscal transparency by communicating government action to the public using the 17 SDGs and inform SDG-oriented budgetary policymaking.
Powering Trade: Fine-tuning Trade Policy for Solar and Wind Energy Value Chains
Oct 2024
Working Paper
This paper examines current tariffs and other trade measures that either support or hinder the global expansion of solar and wind energy technologies. It highlights a persistent historical pattern in supply chains: developing countries remain mostly confined to exporting raw materials for solar and wind energy technologies, while importing manufactured renewable energy goods. These patterns restrict the development prospects of these countries and limit the collective ability of the world to harness the full potential of green energy technologies. The paper provides insights for trade policy improvements. For instance, lower tariffs on intermediate goods in Africa could foster the emergence or development of local green energy industries. In Latin America and the Caribbean, reducing border costs for intraregional trade could strengthen regional supply chains for renewable technologies. In Asia and Oceania, where trade defence measures are on the rise, implementing more effective trade remedy mechanisms could reduce recourse to trade defence duties.
Global Action is Needed to Advance Social Development Amidst Converging Crises
Oct 2024
Working Paper
The recent confluence of crises – the COVID-19 pandemic, violent conflicts, and climate change – has caused severe setbacks to central objectives of social development, such as poverty eradication, employment generation, inequality reduction, and building inclusive societies. People and societies in vulnerable situations have been hit the hardest by the converging crises. There are indications that shocks and crises are becoming ever more frequent, severe, and far-reaching – driven by the worsening effects of climate change, the growing probability of pandemics, growing geopolitical tensions, and increasingly dense global networks of trade, finance and transport. The effects of these converging crises can be severe and long-lasting, as they may exhaust public and private response capacities, cause economic scarring, and trap people in a cycle of poverty. The World Social Report (WSR 2024) estimates that the potential cumulative global economic output loss could be over $50 trillion in the 2020–2030 period, an indication of lost opportunities for social development. National social protection mechanisms can help to protect and further advance social development. These mechanisms, by limiting the adverse impacts of shocks and crises, especially on people in vulnerable situations, and by supporting short-term recovery, enhance longer-term resilience and foster sustainable and inclusive growth. Yet only 47 per cent of the global population and as few as 13 per cent in low-income countries, are estimated to have access to at least one social protection benefit. At the same time, converging crises may increase the cost of providing adequate and universal social protection, while also depleting public financial resources. As a result, many developing countries, including most low- and lower-middle-income countries, would find it difficult to achieve universal social protection by 2030 without additional international support
Multi-speed Growth is Back, With a Fiscal Blind Spot
Jul 2024
Working Paper
Multi-speed growth is back: 68 developing economies are currently growing at more than 4%, 47 at between 2 and 4% and 37 at less than 2%. The projected effects on poverty are uneven. Despite a downward trend since the pandemic in 2020, an estimated 7.7% of the global population could still be living in extreme poverty in 2024, just below the pre-pandemic level of 8%, and could decrease slightly to 7.2% by 2026. Looking forward, high levels of debt and weak development financing are expected to make uneven patterns of growth and poverty more divergent. In 49 countries, net interest payments as a share of revenue are now higher than 10%, up from 27 countries a decade ago, and in 10 countries higher than 25%. Worst affected is the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 45% of countries with interest payments in excess of 10% and 50% of countries with payments higher than 25%. Indicators of debt distress and default risk remain elevated. For developing economies with a sovereign credit rating, 61% percent (54 countries) have a rating below ‘non-investment grade’ and for countries with debt assessed under the LIC-DSF 51% percent (34 countries) are rated either in or at high risk of debt distress.
Net Wealth Taxes: How They Can Help Fight Inequality and Fund Sustainable Development
Dec 2024
Working Paper
Taxing wealth can take many forms; policy makers should carefully analyse options best suited to the existing tax system and the social-economic situation in their country. Ensuring effective taxation of wealth is a tool to address inequality, increase progressivity in the tax system, and raise domestic revenues to finance sustainable development. Net wealth taxes are gaining support, fuelled by the view that all individuals and corporations must pay their fair share of taxes. Investments in technological progress and automation of tax administrations, coupled with third-party reporting, international tax cooperation in the form of exchange of information and exit taxes, are crucial elements that could help countries to efficiently and effectively levy a net wealth tax.
Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Mitigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk in Public Sectors
May 2025
Working Paper
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 warns that with less than one-fifth of targets on track, the world is failing to deliver on the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds significant potential to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs by enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, and improving decision-making across various sectors such as health, education, climate change, water, food, and energy. However, the unpredictable trajectory of AI development, coupled with its complex ethical, social, and political ramifications, necessitates a structured approach to anticipate and navigate its potential impacts. Strategic foresight exercises are essential in this context, enabling stakeholders to proactively identify and address emerging challenges and opportunities associated with AI. By leveraging collective intelligence and scenario planning, strategic foresight exercises can help ensure that AI technologies are developed and deployed responsibly, thereby increasing the likelihood of their positive contribution to sustainable and inclusive growth. Such forward-thinking methodologies are critical to mitigating risks and harnessing AIs transformative power in advancing the SDGs. This policy brief explains how strategic foresight can inform and guide public sectors in anticipating unexpected challenges and effectively harnessing AI technologies.
United States Tariff Shockwaves: Impact on the Arab Region
Jun 2025
Working Paper
This policy brief examines recent United States tariff shockwaves and the 90-day tariff pause, highlighting both direct impacts – particularly on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia – and indirect spillovers through weaker demand from China and the European Union, and falling oil prices. Preliminary estimates for 2025 suggest moderate macroeconomic effects for the Agadir Agreement countries and limited impacts for the Gulf Cooperation Council economies. The brief underscores rising fiscal vulnerabilities and calls upon Arab States to strengthen regional integration, diversify trade and engage with the United States to enhance economic resilience.
Leaving No One Behind (LNOB): A Pathway that Delivers
Oct 2025
Working Paper
Amid uneven SDG progress and overlapping crises, efforts to deliver sustainable development that leaves no one behind continue to face persistent, intersecting barriers—even where commitments are strong. Consider, for example, the experience of a woman with a disability in an informal settlement: she cannot afford assistive devices, faces inaccessible infrastructure, encounters weak enforcement of rules, experiences hiring bias and may struggle to evacuate during an earthquake. This scenario shows how multiple barriers converge to deepen exclusion. This policy brief highlights five dimensions where exclusion is often observed—affordability, access, governance, participation and external shocks, among others—and illustrates how governments are responding in each through policy examples and observations. Insights are drawn from 2024–2025 country implementation updates from thirteen countries that announced commitments at the 2023 SDG Summit, as well as 2025 Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports from three additional countries3 with such commitments. The analysis is intended to inform global policy discussions, including, as relevant, the World Social Summit under the title Second World Summit for Social Development.
Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Inequalities in Child Survival to Promote Inclusive Social Development
Oct 2025
Working Paper
Thirty years ago, Member States gathered at the first World Summit for Social Development recognized that good health is both a consequence and a driver of social development and committed to reducing mortality rates among children under age 5. Since then, levels of child mortality have fallen significantly (United Nations, 2024). Yet, as the world prepares for the Second World Summit for Social Development in November 2025, profound disparities in child health and survival persist within and among countries, making it difficult for those furthest behind to break out of mutually rein-forcing cycles of poor health, poverty and social exclusion. This policy brief explores disparities in child mortality within and among countries and provides a series of recommendations aimed at ending preventable child deaths and reducing inequalities in child survival in different contexts.
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