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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
A New Agenda for Peace
jul 2023
Working Paper
The challenges that we face can be addressed only through stronger international cooperation. The Summit of the Future in 2024 is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow strengthening global governance for both present and future generations. The UN Secretary-General has been invited to provide inputs to the preparations for the Summit in the form of action-oriented recommendations building on the proposals contained in his report entitled “Our Common Agenda” which was itself a response to the declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations. The present policy brief is one such input. Peace remains an elusive promise for many around the world. Conflicts continue to wreak destruction while their causes have become more complex and difficult to resolve. This may make the pursuit of peace appear a hopeless undertaking. However in reality it is the political decisions and actions of human beings that can either sustain or crush hopes for peace. War is always a choice: to resort to arms instead of dialogue coercion instead of negotiation imposition instead of persuasion. Therein lies our greatest prospect for if war is a choice peace can be too. It is time for a recommitment to peace. In the present document the Secretary-General offers his vision of how we can make that choice.
Global Impact of War in Ukraine on Food, Energy and Finance Systems
abr 2022
Working Paper
On 14 March 2022 UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the establishment of a Global Crisis Response Group on Food Energy and Finance (GCRG) to coordinate the global response to the widespread impacts of the war in Ukraine. The GCRG will ensure high-level political leadership to get ahead of the immense inter-connected challenges of food security energy and financing and put in place a coordinated global response to the ongoing crises. This brief is the result of the coordinated work of the Global Crisis Response Task Team reporting to the Steering Committee of the GCRG. It proposes a series of immediate to longer-term recommendations to avert and respond to the triple crisis including the need to keep markets and trade open to ensure the availability of food agricultural inputs such as fertilizer and energy. It also calls for international financial institutions to urgently release funding for the most at-risk countries while making sure there are enough resources to build long-term resilience to such shocks.
Global Impact of the War in Ukraine: Billions of People Face the Greatest Cost-of-living Crisis in a Generation
jun 2022
Working Paper
A war is always a human tragedy and the war in Ukraine is no exception. The ripple effects of the conflict are extending human suffering far beyond its borders. The war in all its dimensions has exacerbated a global cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation compromising lives livelihoods and our aspirations for a better world by 2030. The largest cost-of-living crisis of the twenty-first century has come when people and countries have a limited capacity to cope. The war in Ukraine has trapped the people of the world between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the severe price shocks in food energy and fertilizer markets due to the war given the centrality of both the Russian Federation and Ukraine in these markets. The hard place is the extremely fragile context in which this crisis arrived; a world facing the cascading crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. A shock of this magnitude would have been a significant challenge no matter the timing; now it is of historic century-defining proportions.
Global Impact of War in Ukraine: Energy Crisis
ago 2022
Working Paper
Since the issuance of the second brief by the Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG) on 8 June 2022 the impacts of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis have been felt more deeply and widely across the world. Disruptions to the global energy market are putting Governments worldwide under enormous pressure. Rising energy prices are accelerating the cost-of-living crisis and sustaining the vicious cycle of constrained household budgets; increasing food and energy poverty; and increasing social unrest. In this context safeguarding countries’ commitments to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require significant efforts from all involved stakeholders. Policies that address the short-term emergency while ensuring countries’ climate-related and other sustainable development commitments must be pursued. Such policies are available to both developed and developing countries although the mix varies depending on geography income level and commodity status.
ООН 2.0 Культура перспективного мышления и передовые навыки для повышения результативности системы Организации Объединенных Наций
sept 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
sept 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
sept 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
sept 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
sept 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
sept 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.
Digital Trade: Opportunities and Actions for Developing Countries
ene 2022
Working Paper
Digital trade is increasingly important and comprises both digitally ordered trade in goods and services (cross-border electronic commerce (e-commerce)) and digitally delivered trade (services delivered internationally through the Internet or other networks). However countries vary greatly in their readiness for digital trade. If the share of developing countries particularly the least developed countries in world trade is to increase as envisaged in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development actions are needed to strengthen their capacity to benefit from digital trade. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has made this need even more urgent.
Emerging Strategies for Ports During the Pandemic
feb 2022
Working Paper
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on humankind and on global commerce. Ports and port communities have experienced major changes to normal operating environments. The strategies used by ports to remain open and continue to facilitate sustainable economic development throughout the pandemic may provide useful lessons for policymakers particularly in relation to the protocols and innovative measures that have been employed to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the movement of imports and exports as well as ships’ crew and essential port workers.
Why Robust Digital Identity Systems Are Essential in Fostering Trade and Development
mar 2022
Working Paper
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the shift toward a more digital world in a way that will have long-lasting effects. Lockdown measures have led to a surge in electronic commerce (e-commerce) as consumers look for alternatives to in-person shopping. Such shifts in global consumer behaviour mean that a robust e-commerce framework is rapidly becoming an essential component of a regionally integrated economy. Moreover e-commerce and other economic activities enabled by information and communications technology have the potential to accelerate progress towards all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. However many developing countries face challenges when it comes to the promotion and implementation of e-commerce. Leading these challenges are consumer concerns over the cybersecurity infrastructure that underpins electronic transactions especially the lack of strong methods of authentication to tackle fraud-related issues. To address such challenges countries should establish policies that lead to the implementation of a robust national digital identity framework.
Export Potential Under the African Continental Free Trade Area: Limited Prospects for the Least Developed Countries in Africa?
feb 2022
Working Paper
Free trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area commenced in January 2021. Countries agreed to remove tariffs on 90 per cent of goods progressively liberalize trade in services and eliminate non-tariff barriers to improve regional cohesion create a single large African market and promote gross domestic product (GDP) growth through trade. With the objective of guiding feasible policies and sectoral strategies at the national and regional levels this policy brief highlights how countries in Africa in particular the least developed countries benefit differently from tariff liberalization and the removal of non-tariff barriers.
Facilitating Access to Opensource Technologies
oct 2021
Working Paper
Ensuring easy and affordable access by developing countries to appropriate technologies is critical in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Open-source technologies can provide a means of effective technology transfer. Countless open-source designs and technologies are shared by innovators worldwide yet there is currently no central repository of such technologies and this makes it difficult for producers or consumers in developing countries to locate and access them. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations recently adopted resolution 2021/30 on open-source technologies for sustainable development. In this policy brief an explanation of why developing countries need access to such technologies and proposals of ways to move forward in implementing the resolution are provided.
Implementing Supportive Policies to Build a Vibrant Private Sector as a Driver of Structural Transformation
sept 2021
Working Paper
The private sector – one of the eight categories of the UNCTAD Productive Capacities Index – can be a catalyst for productive capacity development and structural transformation required to achieve sustainable development. Fostering entrepreneurship and stimulating private sector development and competitiveness through supportive policies and strategic actions should be a priority in the least developed countries (LDCs) to catch up with other country groups. Building on the private sector category of the Index which reports on cross-border trade facilitation access to finance and business support this policy brief looks at how the private sector contributes to the development of productive capacities and at the policies that can be used to support its growth.
Strengthening International Response and Cooperation to Address the Seafarer Crisis and Keep Global Supply Chains Open During the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic
dic 2021
Working Paper
Border closures restrictions and other measures taken by countries to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have caused large numbers of seafarers – peaking at an estimated 400000 in September 2020 – to remain stranded at sea far beyond contract expiration dates and the 11-month maximum period of continuous service on board ships. This has caused a humanitarian crew change crisis and brought working conditions in the shipping sector into the spotlight. Governments and industry should continue to collaborate with all other relevant stakeholders to address the crew change crisis and ensure that seafarers are designated as key workers and are prioritized for vaccinations.
We are the First Spark: The Quest of Women Peacebuilders in Iraq for a More Peaceful and Equal Society
jul 2023
Working Paper
This brief examines how the women members of peace groups established through a UNDP initiative in Iraq overcame traditional barriers to play the role of peacemakers and social developers in their communities. From their perspective the brief highlights the opportunities made available in post-conflict Iraq and identifies three realms that remained key in assuming their new roles in society: family dynamics interactions with male community members and the media. Thus it provides an understanding of the pathways through which women in traditional and conflict-affected societies like Iraq assumed the responsibility to rebuild their communities and initiate a structural shift in gender equality and social norms.
Financial Services: Unlocking the Potential for Export Diversification
ene 2023
Working Paper
The services sector presents an opportunity for African countries to diversify their exports through two key facets: (a) the use of innovation and technology in the services sector can strengthen productive capacities leading to high-quality and more diversified exports of goods; and (b) African countries can diversify exports through intensifying forward and backward linkages with services sectors and increasing export of services. This policy brief based on the EDAR 2022 presents recommendations on how the roles of financial services and private businesses can be leveraged to strengthen productive capacity and diversify into high-quality exports.
Tackling Debt and Climate Challenges in Tandem: A Policy Agenda
nov 2022
Working Paper
Climate-related shocks are growing in intensity and frequency while the ability of developing countries to address mounting climate challenges is heavily impaired by unsustainable debt burdens. Achieving climate-resilient structural transformation will require many of them to take on more debt. This policy brief highlights the growing overlap between debt and climate vulnerabilities in developing countries and the urgent need for improved access by vulnerable countries to financing on terms consistent with both long-term sustainable development and debt sustainability. It proposes a policy agenda that focuses on a reform of the international debt architecture and on scaling-up public-led and affordable development financing for climate investments.
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