The regional training workshop will be held virtually from 27 May to 3 June 2022, as part of a project to strengthen capacity to implement inequality assessments of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, which has been initiated by ESCAP and includes both in-country and regional level capacity strengthening activities.
Trade and trade policy used to be labelled as gender-blind until just a few years back. Now increasingly they are seen as gender-responsive.
The relevance and importance of agriculture as a sector in the ASEAN and its member states were underlined when the COVID-19 pandemic threatened food security and livelihoods. Women play an important role in agriculture and agricultural value chains (AVC) in the ASEAN, with 48–75% of employed women working in the sector in Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Vietnam.
In partnership with the Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia, the Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT/ESCAP) will be holding a Virtual Training of Trainers on Women ICT Frontier Initiative in Armenia on 28-31 March 2022.
The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual and inclusive intergovernmental forum and a regional platform for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while serving as a regional preparatory meeting to the high-level political forum.
The significance of strengthening economic growth and sustainable development through financial inclusion is critical for the Asia-Pacific region. Harnessing the advent of digital technology to enable financial inclusion is one of the most promising opportunities to bring millions of unserved and underserved people across the region into the formal financial sector.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Commemoration of International Women’s Day 2022 is being jointly convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on the priority theme for the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 66): “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes”
Women in leadership positions are under-represented and the field of official statistics is no exception. While the situation may have approved since 1993 where the single female statistician at the UN Statistical Commission was referred to as ‘the lady statistician', fewer than one in five of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Asia and the Pacific, are currently headed by women. As highlig
The National Workshop on Statistical Framework to Harness the Demographic Dividend and Achieve Greater Gender Equality in Timor-Leste took place on 10 and 11 January 2022. It was organized by ESCAP, with support of the UNFPA country office in Timor-Leste and the National Statistical Office, Timor-Leste.