by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge SPECA countries declared their commitment to achieving the SDGs, yet the region faces serious sustainable development challenges. The exclusive focus of the countries’ economies and exports on a limited number of commodities (primarily hydrocarbons)...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Many countries in Latin America lack both donation and transplant systems that are fully installed and functioning and donation policies that cover all procedures. This could place both organ patients and donors at risk and such a situation is due primarily...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Environmental concerns are rarely high on the agenda of governments in lower and middle-income countries, leading to weak national environmental institutions and insufficient environmental policies. In some countries, national environmental authorities are...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In recent years, South Asia has experienced frequent natural and human-caused crises. Sustained heavy rainfall in 2017 resulted in one of the worst floods that Nepal and Bangladesh have experienced. More than 8 million people were affected and many families...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In 2017, two back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, hit the Caribbean countries, destroying homes, roads, utilities and livelihoods. In Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, about 65 per cent of structures were severely damaged and more than 20,000...
