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Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review: Zambia
The Science Technology and Innovation Policy Review of Zambia has three fundamental goals. Its first goal is to offer Zambia an assessment of activities and institutions that make up its innovation ecosystem. The second goal is to draw attention to important socio-economic development questions for Zambia. Special attention has been placed on four such questions: gender food mining and digital transformation. The third goal is to provide recommendations for strengthening STI policy and propose measures that may improve national technological capacities and encourage innovation.
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review of Ethiopia
Botswana Science, Technology, and Innovation Foresight
This report was prepared as part of the Botswana Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy review process and should be read in conjunction with the Botswana STI Policy Review. It documents the STI Foresight exercise designed and undertaken by UNCTAD in 2022 to explore the future role of science technology and innovation and STI policy in Botswana and to stimulate a process aimed at creating a consensus on the future priorities for national investments in R&D technology and innovation. It responds to a key finding of UNCTAD's Botswana STI Policy Review that the lack of clearly defined national priorities contributes to fragmentation in the national system of innovation in Botswana and undermines its innovation performance and capacity for technology upgrading. These in turn constrain the ability of Botswana to use STI for sustainable development and reach the sustainable development goals. The STI foresight exercise aimed to provide a future dimension to strategic planning for STI in the country. It sought to involve the STI community of policymakers and practitioners in Botswana in a discussion about what the STI future could be for Botswana and what a preferred STI future is for the country. The exercise and the report are based on an understanding that foresight can help to shape the future of Botswana by looking forward into the future to see what could be possible through selective policy interventions undertaken in the present starting from today.
Science Technology and Innovation Policy Review: Seychelles
The Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Review of Seychelles was conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the request of the Government of Seychelles. The request was made in the context of the UNCTAD project on Technology Assessment in the energy and agricultural sectors in Africa to accelerate progress on science technology and innovation and this Review is one of its products. The review of Seychelles' National Innovation System (NIS) and the implementation of its 2016-2025 national Science Technology and Innovation Policy and Strategy (STIPS) suggests a range of policy actions and institutional reforms. These recommendations are essential for invigorating the NIS thereby enabling Seychelles to harness STI and entrepreneurship effectively to achieve the goals set in Vision 2033 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This report reviews the implementation of the 2016-2025 STI Policy and Strategy (STIPS) and assess the country’s national innovation system.
A Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Reviews
Harnessing Innovation for Sustainable Development
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2023
This publication is the latest instalment in the annual series jointly produced by UN Women and UN DESA. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of gender equality progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Halfway to the end point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the world is failing to achieve gender equality making it an increasingly distant goal. If current trends continue more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030 and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity. Growing vulnerability brought on by human-induced climate change is likely to worsen this outlook as many as 236 million more women and girls will be food-insecure under a worst-case climate scenario. The gender gap in power and leadership positions remains entrenched and at the current rate of progress the next generation of women will still spend on average 2.3 more hours per day on unpaid care and domestic work than men. No country is within reach of eradicating intimate partner violence and women’s share of workplace management positions will remain below parity even by 2050. Fair progress has been made in girls’ education but completion rates remain below the universal mark. With the clock ticking urgency mounts. This report advocates for an integrated holistic approach to advancing gender equality involving multistakeholder collaboration and sustained financial backing. Neglecting to amplify efforts and invest in gender parity jeopardizes the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022
The latest available Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. COVID-19 and the backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality. Violence against women remains high; global health climate and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence especially for the most vulnerable women and girls; and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic. Women’s representation in positions of power and decision-making remains below parity. Only 47 per cent of data required to track progress on SDG 5 are currently available rendering women and girls effectively invisible. Nearly halfway to the 2030 endpoint for the SDGs the time to act and invest in women and girls is now. “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals the pivotal force gender equality plays in driving progress across the SDGs and women and girls’ central role in leading the way forward.
Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR): Applicable as from 1 January 2023
The ADR is a regulatory instrument that applies to international transport in 53 countries. it applies to national transportation by road in many countries (in particular the countries of the European Union). The ADR lays down requirements for transport operations driver training and the construction and approval of vehicles. The 2023 edition has been prepared on the basis of amendments which are set to enter into force on 1 January 2023 after acceptance by the Contracting Parties.
Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR): Applicable as from 1 January 2021
Libro de bolsillo de las estadisticas mundiales 2017
La edición de 2017 del World Statistics Pocketbook es la cuadragésima primera de una serie de compilaciones anuales de más de 50 indicadores estadísticos clave de más de 20 fuentes estadísticas internacionales y se presenta en perfiles de una página para 30 regiones geográficas del mundo y 232 países o áreas. Organizado en cinco (5) secciones: información general indicadores económicos principales socios comerciales indicadores sociales e indicadores ambientales y de infraestructura. Los indicadores de los perfiles cubren los siguientes temas: comunicación delincuencia asistencia al desarrollo educación energía medio ambiente finanzas género salud turismo internacional y ciencia y tecnología por nombrar algunos.
Human Development Report 2023/2024
Breaking the Gridlock - Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World
Today collective action on challenges ranging from climate change mitigation to peace and security is frustratingly slow or stymied altogether. Lack of trust and polarization--both associated with insecurity--exacerbate the gridlock. Shared interlinked global challenges like the pandemic and its recovery are outpacing our willingness and our institutions’ capacities to respond to them.Why despite all our riches and technologies are we so stuck? How do we get unstuck? Is it possible to mobilize action to address globally shared challenges in a world that is intensively polarized? The 2023-2024 Human Development Report explores these issues and offers a platform for strategic discussion on how to move beyond narrow zero-sum thinking and support cooperation even as we have diverging interests and views. The e-book for this publication has been converted into an accessible format for the visually impaired and people with print reading disabilities. It is fully compatible with leading screen-reader technologies such as JAWS and NVDA.
Revue annuelle du marché des produits forestiers 2017-2018
La Revue annuelle du marché des produits forestiers 2018-2019
La Revue annuelle du marché des produits forestiers 2018-2019 fournit une analyse complète des marchés dans la région de la CEE et examine l’influence sur les marchés des principaux facteurs hors de la région. Elle traite des produits forestiers à partir de la forêt jusqu’à l’utilisateur final c’est-à-dire des bois ronds et des produits de première transformation aux produits à valeur ajoutée et aux produits utilisés dans la construction de logements. Les chapitres de la Revue qui s’appuient sur des statistiques sont consacrés à la matière première bois aux sciages de résineux aux sciages de feuillus aux panneaux dérivés du bois aux papiers et cartons et à la pâte de bois. D’autres chapitres analysent les politiques et les marchés du bois pour la production d’énergie. S’appuyant sur une série exhaustive de données la Revue met en lumière le rôle des produits forestiers durables sur les marchés internationaux et analyse les politiques relatives aux forêts et aux produits forestiers ainsi que les principaux facteurs déterminants et les tendances. Elle présente également une analyse des effets de la situation économique actuelle sur les marchés des produits forestiers.
Étude des perspectives du secteur forestier 2020-2040
L’étude des perspectives du secteur forestier 2020-2040 expose les tendances à long terme de l’offre et de la demande de produits forestiers (bois ronds sciages panneaux pâte papier produits non ligneux) et de services liés aux forêts ainsi que les perspectives à l’horizon 2040 pour la région de la Commission Economic pour L'Europe.
البرنامج العالمي للتثقيف في مجال حقوق الإنسان: خطة العمل، المرحلة الرابعة
The Plan of Action provides methodological guidance to develop a comprehensive human rights education strategy for young people at the national level that supports youth empowerment participation and inclusion. It addresses governments national human rights institutions and civil society organizations including youth movements and networks as well as education practitioners. Member States adopted the Plan of Action to guide implementation of the fourth phase (2020-2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing) proclaimed by the General Assembly in 2004 and structured in consecutive phases each focusing on a specific target sector or thematic area.
Programme mondial en faveur de l’éducation aux droits de l’homme: Plan d’action, troisième phase
Recommandations relatives au transport des marchandises dangereuses
Règlement type - Dix-neuvième édition révisée
Le Règlement type traite de la classification des marchandises dangereuses de leur énumération de l'utilisation de la construction des épreuves et des agréments des emballages et des citernes mobiles ainsi que des procédures d'expédition incluant le marquage l'étiquetage le placardage et la documentation. Il vise à éviter les accidents matériels et de personnes et les dommages à l'environnement en cours de transport quel que soit le mode de transport utilisé et à assurer ainsi un niveau de sécurité élevé. La présente édition révisée contient de nouvelles dispositions et diverses dispositions révisées concernant notamment le transport des liquides visqueux; des matières qui polymérisent; des véhicules (y compris les véhicules électriques) et des piles au lithium.
السلائفوالكيمياويات التي يكثر استخدامها في صنعالمخدرات والمؤثرات العقلية بصفة غير مشروعة2022
This report summarizes the actions taken by Governments and by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on precursors to prevent chemical diversion and to implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. The Report contains an account of the activities carried out during the reporting period; provides an overview of the major trends and developments in licit trade and trafficking in and illicit use of individual chemicals; contains a summary of seizures cases of suspicious and stopped shipments and diversions or attempted diversions; and details activities associated with illicit drug manufacture.
Accord relatif au transport international des marchandises dangereuses par route (ADR): en vigueur le 1er janvier 2023
L'ADR est un texte réglementaire qui s'applique au transport international dans 53 pays. il s'applique au transport national routier dans beaucoup de pays (notamment les pays de l'Union européenne). L’ADR fixe les exigences relatives aux opérations de transport à la formation des conducteurs ainsi qu'à la construction et à l'agrément des véhicules. L'édition 2023 a été préparée sur la base d'amendements qui devraient entrer en vigueur le 1er janvier 2023 après acceptation par les Parties contractantes.