by Raphael | Mar 21, 2022 | Good Practices Thematic Series & Special Editions, Publications
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages is not only a fundamental right and a crucial development goal, but it is also front and center of the global COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve sustainable development, ensuring health is critical, with...
by Naveeda | Feb 7, 2022 | Policy Brief, Publications
Malnutrition, in all its forms, has already been understood and addressed as a public health issue, but the emerging reality indicates that the combination of malnutrition and obesity, known as the multiple burden of malnutrition, demands equal attention. This...
by Naveeda | Jan 25, 2022 | Publications, UNCDF Featured Publications POM
UNCDF’s work in financial health is centered on enhancing people’s financial security, independence and thus well-being, which in turn contributes to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNCDF’s mission is to improve the...
by Naveeda | Jan 24, 2022 | Publications, UNCDF Featured Publications POM
This guidance note from UNCDF is about immediate responses to the COVID-19 recommended for local governments. It is advisory and generic and can be adapted to individual circumstances. It is focused on responses that can be implemented in days and weeks, rather than...
by Naveeda | Oct 29, 2021 | News, Publications
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented impact in Latin America and the Caribbean. What started as a public health crisis has become the worst economic and social crisis in a century and has exposed significant structural gaps in the...