This case study brief discusses multiple implications of tobacco use and production on MDG achievement by brining a case or Myanmar and Bangladesh. It also discusses alternative cropping as solution for headlth hazards of the tobacco producers and of the environment and producers' income poverty.

 

This paper examines different modalities used by various countries in the Asia-Pacific region to administer local elections and demonstrates the impact of management practices on electoral cycle approaches, the delivery of elections, and the provision of assistance. The paper also makes broad policy recommendations for contexts where assistance providers may choose to target programs and where election management bodies may decide to focus local level capacity strengthening initiatives.

 

The paper targets countries in the Asia-Pacific region that are planning for local elections. It has relevance for a number of stakeholders including electoral management bodies, political parties, parliament, government ministries, civil society and international organizations.

This case study brief discusses the success of women processors group in a remote fishing village in Indonesia. Scaling up the home-made seaweed snack for national retails chains increased their income and created more jobs in remote village. Processed food also helps reducing the vulnerability of the poor to economic, food, and nutrition security as the processed food lasts longer and reaches more distant inland communities where high rates of poverty and malnutrition are observed.

 

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This case study brief illustrates how a knowledge-based and inclusive approach can create a shared vision of food and nutrition security that results in national policies, and how the shared vision succeeded in fostering investments to support these policies. The Brief also aims to identify factors that contributed to the success of the National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme.

 

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This paper presents the effects of increased temperatures and sea-level rise, together with other climate-linked changes to the Pacific Islands. It examines past responses to climate changes and barriers in driving adaptation to climate change at the community level. It also presents a set of fundamental challenges to livelihoods in the Pacific Islands region posed by future climate change and recommendattions to reduce the impacts of such changes.

This paper aims to present a background to resource-based conflicts and how they may be influenced by climate change in the Asia Pacific region. In so doing, this paper first examines the relationship between security, natural resources, and climate change. Second, this paper looks specifically at this issue in the Asia-Pacific region, presenting case studies from South and West Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific. The paper also presents an appraisal of existing address of this issue and explores options for future action that may underpin peace and security in a climate change context at local and international levels.

The Annual Report 2012 highlights our work on achieving the MDG and advancing the post-2015 development agenda. It tells how we advocate gender equality and women’s political participation, and describes how we support countries in the region in addressing the challenges of climate change.

The 2013 first issue of the newsletter covers events and activities across the region on macroeconomics issues from a gender perspective. Read more about a new gender economics course in Thailand, Australia cancelled time use survey, and new resources.

The document presents a summary of the e-discussion on linkages between violence-against-women (VAW) and HIV, which took place from 25 November to 10 December 2012 on the Asia Pacific Community of Practice on HIV, Gender and Human Rights (HIV-APCoP) website, and coincided with the 16 Days of Activism on violence-against-women. The e-discussion was conducted to engage with the HIV-APCoP’s diverse membership of UN agencies, networks of people living with HIV, national and local governments, civil society organizations and academic and research institutions, to inform a Discussion Paper on HIV and violence-against-women that has been commissioned by the Asia-Pacific United Nations Interagency Task Team on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (IATT). Inputs were sought to identify members views on the linkages between violence-against-women and HIV in the Asia-Pacific region and practical ways of addressing the issue. Over 30 members contributed to an initial online survey and subsequent e-discussion. The full transcript of the e-discussion is available online.

This background paper explores the possible role of nuclear energy in climate change mitigation and in resolving supply security and environmental issues. It concludes with a summary of the main points and recommendations for the way forward.

This summary of e-discussion consolidates the exchange of directly applicable experiences, expertise and knowledge on extractive industires from countries within and outside of the Asia-Pacific region. Furthermore, it captures the dialogue between national level practitioners and international experts to enhance on-the-ground tacit, experiential knowledge, and international expertise particularly good practices on pro-poor economic governance for sustaining human development.

This Reference Resource documents key protective laws focused on HIV, men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in five countries in South Asia.

 

The two primary objectives of the Reference Resource are to:
1. build the capacity of legal professionals to analyze protective laws (focusing on people living with HIV, MSM
and transgender people); and
2. develop a resource to support legislative drafting, law reform and advocacy initiatives.

 

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Country Legal Reference Briefs
Bangladesh | India | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka

This paper provides central policy decision makers and donors with accessible guidance on how government might make use of the national budget system to prioritise a response to climate change. The paper also explores how governments can make complementary use of domestic and

international sources of public finance to resource a climate change response.

 

The paper is principally targeted at central policy decision makers. It may also be of interest to researchers and those working with donors who are involved in financing public interventions on climate change in developing countries.

This paper provides lessons learnt from the recent UNDP experience in implementation of Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews (CPEIRs). It also provides proposal for implementing future CPEIRs and undertaking complementary analyses.

This paper describes a new methodology that aims to inform the development of the national response to climate change: the climate public expenditure and institutional review (CPEIR). The paper outlines the analytical framework of this methodology.  It draws on the experience of a substantial body of work that has examined the effectiveness of public expenditure through the use of several analytical tools.