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As we cross the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the independent evaluation offices of UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA...

The Asia-Pacific region has seen rapid poverty reduction, having lifted 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty in a few generations. Yet, millions continue...

Highlights related to food security Economic context/access to food: Inflation is predominantly influenced by factors such as the exchange rate, international energy and food prices, and domestic demand...

Highlights: The assessment compiles data and employs various analytical tools, to simulate the impacts of the war in Gaza on the entire occupied Palestinian territory at the one-month mark and for two-month and...

As a critical component of the global economy, the ocean and its ecosystems provide important goods and services and support numerous activities essential for economic development, such as capture fisheries...

Highlights: According to the data reported in the WoAA2022 shown in [3], 89 percent of households and 91 percent of Afghans had food expenditure lower than the nominal food poverty...

The HDI index was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country; not economic growth alone. The HDI...

This report first describes the context of the agriculture sector in Libya and in the south of the country, the impact of the ongoing conflict in the country since 2011 and of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the specific configuration of the sectors in the south...

Protected areas (PAs) and other effective areas-based conservation measures (OECMs) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation that concurrently provide multiple co-benefits for achievement of the Sustainable Development...

The protracted conflict in Yemen has led to urgent, widespread humanitarian and development crises and resulted in significant damage to the economy, physical infrastructure, service provision, health, and education...