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Difficulties in raising sufficient domestic and external resources to finance the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), along with the numerous drawbacks of traditional aid, are leading the quest for innovative sources of development finance. The World Economic and Social Survey 2012 analyses current and proposed mechanisms for innovative…

The Rio Conventions – the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) – address the need for adaptation to climate change through their activities. The secretariats of the Rio Conventions seek to enhance coordination and synergy, including on adaptation, through…

All three of the Rio Conventions, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCC D) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ), acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective goals and objectives. This information brochure provides a snapshot of the…

The increasing awareness of gender in the context of sustainability adds a new opportunity to further strengthen cooperation among the three Rio Conventions. In this sense, this is an interesting and exciting time for all three conventions, because gender awareness is at an all-time high in the context in which the conventions function.The integration of gender into actions against…

Despite numerous development and humanitarian efforts in the past decades, large portions of Africa and Asia, especially drylands, remain highly vulnerable to drought, as illustrated by the recent experiences in India (2009), China (2010), the Horn of Africa (2011) and the Sahel (2012). A stocktaking exercise was undertaken under the auspices of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer…

Good policy is sharp policy. It is policy that targets specific problems and bottlenecks. For this, we need a clear picture of what is happening and good data. This first World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education responds to this need on one of the most important questions for human rights and sustainable development today. Girls and women remain deprived of full and equal opportunities for…