UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) serves as the United Nations’ regional hub promoting cooperation among countries to achieve inclusive and sustainable development. The largest regional intergovernmental platform with 53 Member States and 9 associate members, ESCAP has emerged as a strong regional think-tank offering countries sound analytical products that shed insight into the evolving economic, social and environmental dynamics of the region.
The Commission’s strategic focus is to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is reinforced and deepened by promoting regional cooperation and integration to advance responses to shared vulnerabilities, connectivity, financial cooperation and market integration. ESCAP’s research and analysis coupled with its policy advisory services, capacity building and technical assistance to governments aims to support countries’ sustainable and inclusive development ambitions
the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) provides support to its member States in the context of the recently developed regional road map for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. ESCAP is promoting integrated water management and water efficiency approaches and provides support on leveraging impactful investments and financing for water-based economies. ESCAP also supports monitoring of SDG 6 in Asia and the Pacific as well as integrated approaches for SDG planning, with a recently developed methodological tool focusing on SDG 6 integration with other SDGs.
In addition, ESCAP regionally supports UN-Water, which coordinates the efforts of UN entities and international organizations working on water and sanitation issues globally, and is in particular committed to make the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” a success in Asia and the Pacific.
Statistical database
Support to SDG 6 monitoring at the regional level through maintaining the SDG ESCAP Statistical database and strengthening national statistical offices on SDG monitoring.
UN ESCAP study on building resilience to drought in South-East Asia UN-Water 1 July, 2019 South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative impacts – striking hardest at the poor and heightening inequality, as well as degrading land and in … Read more
Regional workshop on Integrated Resource Management in Asian cities UN-Water 13 June, 2019 The ninth regional workshop on Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban Nexus, was hosted last month in Bangkok, Thailand. This final and concluding workshop highlighted six years of successfu … Read more
SDG 6 in the Asia and the Pacific region UN-Water 28 September, 2017 The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) launch the Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2016: SDG Baseline Report. The main objective of the Report is to highlight critical gaps a … Read more
UNESCAP workshop on resource management in Asian cities UN-Water 17 July, 2017 Managing rapidly growing cities is one of the most critical challenges facing Asia and the Pacific. Energy, water, and food are the resources most essential to sustain development efforts, and they are also the most vulne … Read more