Earth is facing its 6th mass extinction: 1 million species could soon be wiped out. Through The Lion’s Share (TLS), UNDP & its partners aim to create a global movement benefitting wildlife conservation. With an innovative financing scheme complementing Official development assistance (ODA) and facilitating private sector engagement, TLS encourages advertisers who feature animals in … Continued
#ExtremeLives is a project by UNDP in Asia-Pacific, supported by the EU, that explores themes and stories that bring us closer to understanding how to stop the spread of violent extremist ideologies. The project – featuring conversation-style interviews with former extremists, survivors, experts and prevention activists broadcasted on Facebook Live – is an innovative tool … Continued
The project combats illegal logging through use of tree recognition technology which enables the organization to trace the origin of each tree. This tool can help to stop the trade of illegally worked and stolen wood and raise awareness among the consumers on the origin of trees. Pallisco is a Cameroonian forest company working with … Continued
The project ‘Effective Weapons and Ammunition Management (WAM) in a Changing DDR Context’ was jointly initiated by DPO and UNODA in 2016. The objective of this project is to enable UN disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) practitioners to better support host governments in the design and implementation of disarmament and WAM operations as part of … Continued
The Abidjan Principles unpack existing human rights law regarding the obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education. It is a key reference tool on the right to education in the context of the growing commercialization of education worldwide.
As the technology used to monitor wildlife populations and crimes in protected areas advanced over the previous decades, NGOs have been collecting broad swaths of data without field-recognized standards for how to manage data. The project proposes the creation of a working group composed of representatives from across the conservation and adjacent fields, in order … Continued
Access to high-quality and sustainable infrastructure is an essential determinant of people’s well-being, equal opportunities and a basic requirement for businesses to prosper. The OECD is building a network of stakeholders that links its extensive knowledge communities to inform policy decisions for the transition to more sustainable and inclusive economies. Sustainable Infrastructure for All is … Continued
The project proposes a new model of multi-stakeholder collaboration and associative governance between the private sector, local communities, government and other stakeholders that enables the development of more effective responses to complex situations of conflict and fragility. The Human Security Business Partnership is a guidance mechanism to help set up and sustain this new model … Continued
Alliance 8.7 is a global and multi-stakeholder partnership launched in 2016 to achieve a world without forced labor, modern slavery, human trafficking, and child labor by 2030. It provides a platform for over 230 partners and 15 Pathfinder Countries to come together to share information, promising practices, lessons learnt, and to demonstrate progress.
The International Trade Centre, the World Tourism Organization, and the Basque Culinary Center are collaborating to promote and support small farmers and food artisans in developing countries, especially in the least developed countries (LDCs), to develop new and innovative projects, upscale existing products, and create closer links between the consumers and the tourism industry.
