Windhoek, Namibia, 8th October 2025 - The African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a groundbreaking joint report, “From the Ground Up: Community-Based Social Protection in Africa”, at the AU Symposium on Social Protection in Africa, held in Namibia from 7–8 October 2025.The publicati...
In Myanmar today, millions of young people are ‘on hold’ — unable to learn, work, or build their futures. This second report in UNDP’s Myanmar Youth Series, following A Generation on the Move, examines the broken pathways from education to employment. Drawing on the voices of more than 7,000 youth nationwide, the findings show that one in four is ...
On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA-80), global leaders from the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors came together with one clear message: in a world of record-high humanitarian needs and mounting crises, only stronger multilateral action through the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus can deliver lasti...
Asia-Pacific is facing a new era of trade turbulence that could knock countries off their long-term development path, warns a new UNDP report. Rising tariffs, fragmented global value chains, and mounting uncertainty are rewriting the rules of trade in one of the world’s most exposed regions.The report, Disruption, Diversification, and Divergence: Adapting...
Development progress in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is under pressure. The region is navigating a complex landscape marked by heightened uncertainty, recurring and overlapping crises and multiple interlinked stressors—rapidly evolving technologies, deepening social fragmentation, and an increasingly changing climate. These factors have expo...
Bangkok, 26 August 2025 — More than 150 participants from 20 countries — including ministries of finance, development partners, UN agencies, private investors and civil society — gathered today in Bangkok for the Inclusive Climate Finance Dialogue for a Resilient Asia-Pacific, co-organized by the UNDP Climate Finance Network (CFN) an...
