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2025 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership Report

Delivering a Just Transition: Advancing Decent Work, Gender Equality, and Social Protection

Produced by ADB, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the United Nations Development Programme, the report looks at workforce disruption and underscores the need to boost training, improve social protection, and target gender equality. It highlights how sectors including renewable energy and sustainable fisheries can create jobs and why digitalization and innovative financing mechanisms are key to pushing countries toward the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Rural Transformation through Sustainable Wastewater Solutions in China

Since 2021, UNDP has been working to transform China’s Yunnan Province, Camellia Village with nature-based solutions for wastewater management

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Creating an Inclusive Society in Bhutan

As a person with disability, life has been a series of uphill battles for 30-year-old Suk Raj Sherpa.

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Agrovoltaic Farming in Nepal

In Nepal, UNDP supported the piloting of an innovative agrovoltaic farming system cultivation under the solar arrays for the first time in Nepal.

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The Inequality of Climate Injustice

The Inequality of Climate Injustice: A Dive into Pakistan’s North

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Small-Scale Renewable Energy Solutions in Malaysia

UNDP Malaysia is launching a new local development model to drive an Inclusive and JUNDP Malaysia is launching a new local development model to drive an Inclusive and Just Transition.

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Indigenous Women of Rangamati Weave Tradition to Prosperity

In the remote hills of Sapchari Union in Rangamati, two villages, Bame Taimudu and Hajachora Noadam, are home to indigenous people who have upheld the art of waist-loom weaving for generations.

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