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Asia-Pacific Regional Centre: Connecting Countries to KnowledgeUNDP has established the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre as well as a multi-disciplinary Pacific Centre in Suva with focus on the Pacific Islands. A main priority of the Regional Centre is to provide UNDP Country Offices in the Asia and the Pacific with easy access to knowledge through high quality advisory services based on global applied research and UNDP lessons learnt. The second priority is to build partnerships and promote regional capacity building initiatives, which allow UNDP, governments and other development partners to identify, create and share knowledge relevant to solving urgent development challenges. The Asia-Pacific Regional Centre mainly focuses on support to Democratic Governance Energy & Environment, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Poverty Reduction with an overarching effort on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS. The Regional Centre also provides support to UNDP country offices in a number of cross-cutting areas, including capacity development, gender equality, knowledge service, public-private partnerships and mine action.
What’s New10 May 2012
The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions out of poverty, but it must also respond to climate change to survive. Growing first and cleaning up later is no longer an option, says the Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012 – One Planet to Share: Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate. The publication is aimed at reinvigorating climate change dialogue by bringing people’s concerns into the fore in the lead-up to the Rio+20 conference. “The world's common future will be hugely affected by the choices that are made in Asia and the Pacific on a low carbon growth path,” says Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific. “The goal is clear: reduce poverty, increase prosperity but leave a smaller carbon footprint,” he added. More... To access the 2012 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report and the press kit please visit: http://asiapacific-hdr.aprc.undp.org
03 May 2012 Bangkok – Thousands of migrants from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar who live with HIV in Thailand will have better access to health services as part of a commitments made last month.
23 April 2012
The one-hour film examines the shrinking glaciers of the Himalayas and the effects they have on the lives and livelihoods of billions of people in Asia. The movie illustrates solutions, small and large, simple and technologically complex, for coping in a changing environment that can make the difference between survival and disappearance. Revealed: The Himalayan Meltdown aired on Discovery Channel Asia last year, and was produced by UNDP and Arrowhead Films to examine the human development impact of the glacial ice melt on communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. It shows the plight of the affected countries and the ways they are adapting, adjusting and preparing for tomorrow’s inevitable changes in the Himalayan glaciers. More...
18 April 2012
The cartoon contest comes under a new partnership between UNDP and Government of France which seeks to assist Asia-Pacific developing countries to promote environmental issues from a human development perspective. The contest reached out to artists from Afghanistan to Samoa over the past four months through a region-wide outreach campaign active in UNDP country offices and French Embassies in more than 24 countries. More... Download Press Release (465 KB)
16 April 2012
The Fiji Women’s Forum was convened by the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM), the National Council of Women (NCW), the Soqosoqo Vakamarama I-Taukei (SSVM), and FemLink Pacific, and was supported by United Nations Development Programme, Pacific Centre (UNDP-PC) and IWDA. A second 5-day National Women’s Forum is now scheduled for June, which will focus on unpacking the four key themes identified by the women for further work, namely civic education, temporary special measures to Increase women’s participation in national and local government, the Bill of Rights and security sector governance. View Outcome Statement (240 KB)
Organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Committee on Gender Equality of the Government of Mongolia, the conference drew on collective regional experiences to help the representatives devise their national plans. Participants explored ways of drafting gender quota laws, building skills of women to take part in elections, making parliaments more gender sensitive, and strengthening political party decision-making and recruitment processes for women. They also discussed the importance of seeking alliances with male politicians in order to increase gender balance in representative bodies. More...
22 March 2012
The Manav Vikas India Human Development Awards, instituted by the Planning Commission and UNDP, celebrate achievements in Human Development Reports and, encourage excellence in data, analysis and ideas; and advocacy for human development. The Awards are a reminder of the critical need to continue to focus on people as the centre of development processes. The inaugural Awards focus on excellence in District Human Development Reports (DHDRs). More...
UNDP’s first Global Human Development Forum starts today in Istanbul Istanbul, 22 March 2012—Social justice and environmental protection are equally urgent and intrinsically linked universal goals, with coordinated global action needed on both fronts at the UN’s ‘Rio+20’ Conference on Sustainable Development in June, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a message to an audience of development experts, civil society leaders and government officials at the first Global Human Development Forum here today. More...
20 March 2012
Three months before world leaders gather in Brazil for the “Rio + 20” U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, UNDP’s first “Global Human Development Forum” will provide a unique and timely opportunity for a fresh, candid examination of the critical social, economic and environmental challenges now facing the world community. More...
14 March 2012 Download publication (2.8 MB)
06 February 2012
19 January 2012
Issued the same week as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a global campaign to provide Sustainable Energy for All, the UNDP report confirms that there can be no development without energy, and that poverty cannot be addressed sustainably without paying due attention to energy services. The report adds that the poor need energy to get out of poverty, but energy alone is not enough. More... “Energy services are often not affordable by the rural and urban poor and on their own have little impact,” says Martin Krause, who leads the UNDP regional climate, environment and energy team in Asia and the Pacific. “The poor need support to generate income so that energy becomes affordable which in turn will improve household living standards,” he says. Nearly half the world’s population lacks reliable access to modern energy services. And more than 20 percent of the global population, or 1.4 billion people, remain without access to electricity. More... Download publication (1.15 MB) Download press release (270 KB)
18 January 2012
This publication is jointly produced by UNCDF and UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre. We hope it will provide useful knowledge for policymakers and development practitioners, and that it will enrich the debate on the role that local governments can play to foster more inclusive and sustainable growth across the developing world. Download publication (2.1 MB)
New publication 'Ensuring Inclusion: e-Discussion on Social Protection' Download publication (2.6 MB)
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Jakarta — Countries in Asia and the Pacific are at a crossroads and must now strike a balance between rising prosperity and rising emissions. Their success or failure will have repercussions worldwide, predicts a new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Houston, Texas — United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) film 
Ulaanbaatar -- Representatives from 11 countries across Asia developed national plans to increase women’s role in politics during a two-day regional conference in Mongolia. They concluded the event by drafting strategies for their respective countries that include ways to reform their current electoral and political processes to enhance gender equality.
The first-ever India Human Development Awards Manav
Vikas were announced in New Delhi, India, on 14 March 2012. Kottayam in Kerala, Khargone in Madhya Pradesh;
Udupi in Karnataka and Malda in West Bengal have been recognized for excellence in the quality
of Human Development Reports for their districts. The overall award for excellence went to West
Bengal with three districts amongst the eight finalists.
Bangkok — UNDP and Dev TV were jointly awarded for Hard Rain, adjudged as the best film at the 
Istanbul — Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan of Turkey and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Associate Administrator Rebeca Grynspan will open discussions on March 22 in a high-level forum here for development experts, government ministers from both North and South, business executives, and top UN officials to examine the global policy changes required to ensure a sustainable future for people today and for generations to come.
The 2011 APRC Annual Report showcases our impact over the year highlighting results in priority areas of work, including: MDG acceleration and social protection; gender equality; climate change and crisis resilience. Finding effective approaches to these complex issues required thinking outside of the thematic silos and combining the knowledge and expertise of all APRC practice teams. One of the most exciting results of these efforts is the cross-practice collaboration and the integrated interdisciplinary support that APRC is now able to offer to UNDP Country Offices across Asia-Pacific and its development partners. 
The 2012 first issue of the newsletter covers events and activities across the region on macroeconomics issues from a gender perspective. Read more about the Gender Asset and Wealth Gap, Socio-Economic Impact of HIV on Women and Girls. This issue also introduces a new handbook The Need for Gender Responsive Budgeting, a result of the Workshop on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) held in Penang, Malaysia in February 2011. 
New analysis from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), based on case studies across Asia and the Pacific, calls for a package of “
This discussion paper conceptualizes social protection as part and parcel of overall public service delivery, and examines the role that local governments can play in implementing social protection related policies. It aims to shed light on two important questions that have not been systematically addressed in the existing literature. First, what added value can local government bring to safety net programmes? Does ‘going local’ improve or strengthen the effectiveness of social safety net initiatives? Secondly, and, inversely, what can safety net programmes bring to local government? Are there advantages for local governments in being more involved in the management and implementation of safety net programmes? 
This publication is a compilation of the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre initiated online discussion, Ensuring Inclusion: An e-Discussion on Social Protection, held from 7 September to 14 October 2011. In addition to Asia and the Pacific, contributions were received from Africa, Arab States, Europe and CIS, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The diversity in contributions made the discussion truly global in nature and provided a useful platform for sharing and exchanging knowledge across regions. The e-discussion aimed to explore and promote social protection policies and programs across a range of sectors. In addition to deepening understanding and fostering an exchange of experiences, the discussion enriched the debate on the practical implications of social protection initiatives, making the discussion particularly relevant for UN country office programming. It also created opportunities for collaboration among UNDP staff at the global, regional and country levels, development practitioners from different UN agencies, civil society, academics and experts. Such broad-based interaction will help build momentum towards promoting effective social protection initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.