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 The increasing economic and technical capacities of the South and the emergence of a growing group of Southern countries, such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the Gulf countries, as influential stakeholders in international economic relations have...
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 The Government of Nigeria has long recognized the challenges facing its water supply and sanitation sector. This includes low access to services, failure of poorly maintained infrastructure, weak capacity and performance of service providers, and the...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Between 1995 and 2015, the number of people practising open defecation in São Tomé and Principe decreased by 20 per cent. However, 54 per cent still used open spaces for defecation (Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, 2015)....
