Knowledge Products

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 the understanding that most of the SDGs either directly relate to health [...]

This publication on “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation in LDCs: From the Istanbul Programme of Action to Achieving Sustainable and Resilient Development” showcases 80 important examples of effective action. Responding to the call in the Buenos Aires outcome document of the Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation for the United Nations [...]

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Technical Cooperation Report for 2021 provides an overview of the Agency’s Technical Cooperation (TC) activities during the year, covering actions to strengthen the technical cooperation programme, programme resources and delivery, and programme activities and achievements. The TC programme is designed to address the specific needs and priorities of each [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyse agricultural development, food security, rural development, poverty reduction and nutrition over the past two decades. FAO has strengthened its support for SSTC since 2012, and the SSTC portfolio has been expanding [...]

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 coexistence of micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition combined with overweight and obesity in the same population has [...]

The People’s Republic of China is a founding member State of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The country has ratified 26 Conventions, which include four Fundamental Conventions, two prioritized Governance Conventions, and 20 Technical Conventions. The ILO and China have a long-standing partnership that has intensified in recent years on South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) [...]

In an increasingly uncertain world, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a point of reference and a road map, and South-South and triangular cooperation have become ever more important for mobilizing additional resources for implementation of the Agenda, for increasing cooperation capacities and for providing flexible solutions to development challenges. The outcome of the [...]

This report explores how regional cooperation and integration (RCI) can be enhanced in Asia and the Pacific to help the region build back resiliently and sustainably from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The report reflects on lessons learned from efforts to tackle the pandemic through regional cooperation and integration. It provides insights on how region-wide [...]

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 financial health of the most vulnerable, by helping to align incentives for the private and public sector to [...]

This report by UNCDF is the fourth in the series to evaluate progress in the implementation of MAP informed national financial inclusion strategies and was developed with significant engagement and support from the five participating SADC countries. The intention with this report is to allow for the ongoing tracking of financial inclusion progress in these [...]