Registration is now open for the online solutions dialogues (OSDs) on Infrastructure Asset Management. Beginning 9 February, UN/DESA and UNCDF will deliver a series of regional online trainings for Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. (See image for specific dates and times.)
Years of close partnership in providing technical assistance on asset management have yielded the new joint publication Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development: A Handbook for Local and National Governments by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).
On January 19, 2021, The Platform for Collaboration on Tax (PCT), a joint initiative of IMF, OECD, UN and the World Bank, released the final version of the Practical Toolkit to Support the Successful Implementation by Developing Countries of Effective Transfer Pricing Documentation Requirements.
The Financing for Sustainable Development Office and the UN Office for South-South Cooperation recently co-hosted a Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) webinar to focus on how South-South cooperation was building capacities and strengthening the enablers of international development cooperation in a context of complex and emerging risks.
The present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 74/202, provides a review of the global economic and financial impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the response of the international financial system. It contains proposals for strengthened international cooperation and a fuller mobilization of the international safety net in support of countries in need.