Samoa’s progress towards achieving the SDGs will remain slow unless more sustainable sources of development finance for middle-income. Small Island Developing States become available. Redesigning social contracts and expanding access to adequately. funded quality education is a prerequisite for building long-term resilience in SIDS; and our UN team in Samoa is working hard to deliver….
Samoa into a knowledge society have been at the core of our joint interventions over recent years. The Samoa-Knowledge Society Initiative. Similarly funded by the Government of India through the United Nations-India Development Partnership Fund. Similarly has been jointly implemented by UNDP and UNESCO between – with the aim of improving digital development. Similarly and…
The fiscal space of these Small Island Developing States ( SIDS ), reducing the ability of SIDS governments to reform education systems and offer solutions. viable for distance learning. SIDS are among the countries with the highest number of days without online teaching during the pandemic. Small Island Developing States also have some of the…
With million boys and girls around the world having lost half of their in-person instruction in the last two years and some million having never returned to school, humanity is experiencing a profound learning crisis. There is no substitute for a good. Education. As the challenges of our time continue to increase, it is impossible…
UN entities, national authorities and local partners, we can begin to take more concrete and coordinated steps towards climate action at the domestic level. To do this, each person must make better and more responsible decisions, whether through what they eat, how they travel, how they conserve water and electricity, and what they buy. Restoring…
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP – underway in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, it is important to examine the environmental issues and challenges in Iraq and what needs to be done about them. . COP will build on the outcomes of. COP and respond to the grave global climate emergency, from urgently…
NGO partners when they visited the site with me later that year. Thanks to these joint efforts and coordination, the Fagnavotse program has laid the foundations for a social protection system that responds to the needs of the most vulnerable in Madagascar. The program achieved positive results by establishing a broader and more integrated social…
The cash transfers reached some , households, including more than , boys and girls. of the most vulnerable households were included in the non-contributory health protection plan, with full coverage of medical expenses. The new Legal Counseling and Counseling. Centers served more than , survivors of gender-based violence and abuse, while helping. The community and…
Nations and the international community has been the right approach to complement the Government’s own efforts, because we all want the same thing: an ocean with more fishand less trash.’Fagnavotse’: Establishing the foundations of an integrated social protection system in Madagascar’Fagnavotse is a Malagasy word meaning “rescue”. It is also a program that opened new…
Who has played a key role in bringing together national actors. of the Office of the Resident Coordinator to launch the Secretariat of this Partnership. The Blue Finance signing of the Blue Agenda Action Alliance on the sidelines of the G Leaders Summit, on November , Caption: The signing of the Blue Agenda Action Alliance…
I believe that although our efforts are still “work in progress” and much remains to be done, Timor Leste is now in a stronger position to overcome its development challenges and rescue the Sustainable Development Goals than I was in the midst of the uncertainty of This progress now needs to be supported with resources…
United Nations activities in Timor-Leste over a -year period and provided a platform to focus attention on jointly addressing key development challenges, aligning priorities and avoiding duplication. Secondly , as a result of this improved coordination, the. Government’s involvement in the joint work of the United Nations has increased, especially through the involvement of the…
