Results
Scaling up Nutrition Initiative - SUN
Since 2010, the SUN Movement has inspired a new way of working collaboratively to end malnutrition, in all its forms. It unites people—from governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses and researchers—in a collective effort to improve nutrition. It has [...]
Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board
The Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board is a light, lean and agile inter-agency coordination mechanism —composed of representatives of international organizations and bilateral institutions— to enhance global coordination and advocacy on social protection issues and to coordinate international cooperation in [...]
The Global Mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification - UNCDD
The Global Mechanism (GM) offers strategic advisory services to developing countries on how to increase investments in sustainable land management (SLM).
Established by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the GM began its operations in October 1998. As per [...]
UN Office for South South Cooperation
In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 3251 (XXIX), endorsed "the establishment of a special unit within the United Nations Development Programme to promote technical co-operation among developing countries".
With the endorsement of the Buenos Aires Plan of [...]
UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.
The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the drylands, where some of [...]
UNFF - United Nations Forum on Forests
In October 2000, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) established the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), a subsidiary body with the main objective to promote the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests [...]