Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to bring you a new issue of our COP Snapshot, featuring several exciting events and publications on COVID-19 response and recovery and the transformations needed to build a world that leaves no individual, group, country, or region behind.
Among recent events, we highlight the session on UNDP’s development offer on COVID-19 vaccine equity as part of the Open Dialogue Series, and the virtual high-level panel on Cambodia, COVID-19, and Social Protection.
In recent reads, check out the new book by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Seven Ways to Change the World, which offers critical insights to deal with some of the most pressing issues we face today as a global community. Also, do not miss the new Graph For Thought by our COP Champion Luis Felipe López-Calva on wealth inequality trends in Latin America during COVID-19.
Share your views or ask how this community can support you by sending a message to cop-poverty@undp.org.
Stay tuned,
Ricardo, Samantha, Rishi, and Renata
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Open Dialogue event on UNDP’s support to COVID-19 vaccine equity
ONLINE EVENT - JUNE 2021 - WATCH HERE
On 1 June, UNDP hosted a new session of the Open Dialogue Series on its COVID-19 response, which focused on UNDP’s development offer on COVID-19 vaccination. The dialogue featured remarks from Haoliang Xu, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme Support; Mandeep Dhaliwal, Head of UNDP’s HIV, Health, and Development Group; and Dr. Peter Singer, Assistant Director-General and Special Advisor to the Director-General, WHO. In addition, Congo, Indonesia, and Serbia provided country perspectives on UNDP support to vaccine equity. The session was moderated by Ulrika Modéer, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy. Watch here.
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Cambodia, COVID-19, and Social Protection: Responses and Lessons Learned
ONLINE EVENT - JUNE 2021- WATCH HERE
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Cambodia has introduced seven stimulus measures which benefitted approximately 700,000 poor and vulnerable households hit the hardest by the pandemic. UNDP has been at the forefront of these efforts, supplying Cambodia’s Ministry of Planning with 1,700 tablet computers, software, and training to improve registration and leave no one behind. This virtual high-level panel, co-hosted by the CoP on Poverty and Inequality and UNDP Cambodia, explored lessons learned from Cambodia’s successful experience in social protection response against COVID-19. Watch the event recording and learn more about UNDP’s work in Cambodia.
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Learning from Evaluations: Development Financing
ONLINE E-DISCUSSION - 17 -30 JUNE 2021 - ADD YOUR VOICE!
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) Reflection Series 2021 seeks to use UNDP program evaluations to provide evidence-based advice to Country Offices on a few pertinent areas of the organization's work, focusing particularly on the needs of the most vulnerable. All UNDP colleagues are welcome to join and contribute to the dialogue in the Discussion Room Development Financing (Keeping People out of Poverty) starting from 17 June until 30 June 2021! The outcome of the ongoing first session will inform the IEO Thematic Evaluation on UNDP Development Financing, which will be presented to the Executive Board in 2022, based on the corresponding evaluation report. Add your voice on development financing, lessons learned, and the road ahead on SparkBlue here!
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Publications and Resources
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Global Economic Prospects Report
REPORT - JUNE 2021 - READ HERE
The World Bank has released the 2021 edition of its Global Economic Prospects Report. It presents evidence of a solid global economic recovery, albeit highly concentrated in a few big economies, with most developing economies lagging behind. In low-income countries, the impacts of the pandemic are reversing decades of progress in poverty reduction and compounding other long-standing challenges such as conflict and climate. The global economic outlook will likely remain uncertain in years to come, while a comprehensive set of interventions will be needed to promote sustainable, long-term recovery. Download the report.
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World Social Report 2021: Reconsidering Rural Development
REPORT - JUNE 2021 - READ HERE
Despite rapid demographic shifts and accelerated urbanization, poverty is still fundamentally a rural phenomenon. Although more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, 4 out of 5 individuals who live below the international poverty line reside in rural areas. The 2021 edition of UNDESA’s World Social Report (previously Report on the World Social Situation) calls for putting rural development at the center of the SDGs agenda while leveraging new digital and frontier technologies to end rural poverty and reduce inequalities within rural areas and across the urban-rural continuum. Check out the publication.
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Graph For Thought: COVID-19 and Wealth at the Top: More and Wealthier Billionaires After the Crisis in LAC
THOUGHT PIECE - MAY 2021 - READ HERE
In this new #GraphForThought, our COP Champion Luis Felipe López-Calva examines trends in wealth concentration across LAC before and after COVID-19. He finds that the stock of wealth by billionaires in the region has increased by more than 40 percent since the pandemic outbreak. “The concentration of resources in the hands of a few individuals is not only a problem intrinsically for inequality, but also a problem instrumentally for inequality. When the concentration of resources translates into a concentration of political power, which is often the case, it can lead to a vicious cycle that perpetuates these outcomes and distorts policy and resource allocation”. Explore more.
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A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
ROADMAP - JUNE 2021 - READ HERE
As partner agencies supporting member states in their custodianship of SDG 1.2.2., UNDP, UNICEF, and the World Bank worked together to enable reporting of official measures of national multidimensional poverty. The three agencies jointly produced a Roadmap (document) for governments that seek to design and adopt a national measure of multidimensional poverty that presents possible avenues for approaching the process: which includes the rationale for developing such measure, an overview of the main approaches, and a general guideline for the steps to follow. FInd the document here.
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As COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Service Workers, is the Informal Sector Increasing Global Inequality?
Globally, around 60 percent of all people in the workforce (2 billion people) work in the informal economy, with most of them working in emerging and developing countries in jobs that lack social protection coverage. This episode of The Development Podcast features Abadia Teixeira de Jesus, an informal worker who has spent her life struggling to get into formal employment – only to be rolled back into informality by COVID-19. Also, we hear from Franziska Ohnsorge, the World Bank’s Prospects Group manager, who talks about her new co-authored book, “The Long Shadow of Informality,” on the implications of persistent informality for economic recovery and for long-term development. Listen here.
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Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown
BOOK RECOMMENDATION - JUNE 2021
In one of the most anticipated books of the year, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown offers critical solutions to seven global issues we face today: global health crisis; climate change and environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global financial instability; humanitarian crisis and global poverty; barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality and tax-havens. These are issues that demand global responses that cannot be fully addressed without cross-border cooperation. Mr. Brown presents us with a menu of transformative actions that can make a difference in the lives of millions of people globally. Interested in more? Sign up for a LSE event with the author here, and find more on the book here.
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Data4Youth: Deep Diving into COVID-19 Impact on the SDGs
ONLINE EVENTS - INTERNAL - 29 JUNE - REGISTER HERE
The policy choices made today will present options for a radically different future – in which young people play an intrinsic part. Join Restless Development and UNDP on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 for a practical session on UNDP’s COVID-19 Data Futures Platform and a discussion on futures modelling based on UNDP's recently launched cutting-edge research which assesses the impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from young people on youth engagement in data collection and analysis for SDG implementation! Register here.
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ASEAN Regional Forum on Social Protection that Empowers Women
WEBINAR - EXTERNAL - 29-30 JUNE - REGISTER HERE
The ASEAN Regional Forum on Social Protection that Empowers Women brings together women’s organizations, social protection experts, national and international organizations, civil society, UN agencies and governmental representatives to discuss why and how to make social protection more gender transformative. Learn more and register here.
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What Happened to Gender Policies During COVID-19?
ONLINE EVENTS - INTERNAL - 6 JULY - REGISTER HERE
The joint UNDP – Metropolis Learning from Cities series highlights city and metropolitan solutions and insights on pressing issues, linked both to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to adapt to a world in constant change. This webinar on Gender Policies in COVID-19 will explore how cities have integrated gender strategies during the COVID-19 response and the impact on gender equality over the past year and a half. This webinar will highlight local actions, using case studies from Seoul and Jakarta as examples. Learn more and register here.
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Leaving No One Behind: A UNSDG Operational Guide for UN Country Teams
RESOURCE GUIDE - UNSDG - 2021
Leaving no one behind is the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs; this commitment requires practitioners to move beyond assessing aggregate progress and towards ensuring progress for all population groups at a disaggregated level. This operational guide has been developed by the UNSDG to strengthen the UNDS’ support of implementation of the 2030 Agenda’s commitment to leaving no one behind at the national level .In addition, the guide provides a step-by-step approach to operationalize Member States’ pledges to reach the furthest behind first. Find the guide here.
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Social Protection Measures for Persons with Disabilities in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
RESOURCE - ILO - 2021
This ILO document provides an overview of social protection measures announced in response to COVID-19, with a specific reference to persons with disabilities. Rather than seeking to provide an exhaustive survey of measures, it identifies the main characteristics and trends for social protection responses that specifically sought to support persons with disabilities during the crisis. This brief focuses on specific crisis response measures adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledging that persons with disabilities also benefited from access to health care and income support provided through pre-existing social protection schemes and programmes. Find the resource here.
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Knowledge Series: Spotlight on Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery
RESOURCE - UNESCO - 2021
The UNESCO Knowledge Series on Inclusive Recovery from COVID-19 in Caribbean SIDS aims to provide social and human science insights and policy recommendations for an inclusive, equitable and human-centered recovery process from COVID-19 which are grounded on Caribbean realities. The Knowledge Series of think pieces includes topics such as assessing an effective health response, insights on how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequalities, and engaging youth meaningfully in the COVID-19 response. Find the series here.
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Check out these new opportunities below!
UNDP Evaluation Specialist: ‘Financing the Pandemic Recovery: building forward better for a decade of delivery’ (IC) | UNDP | Home-based | Apply by 22 June
Programme Manager: 'Transformative approaches to recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care work in women’s economic empowerment programming' (P-3) | UN Women | New York, Nairobi or Dakar | Apply by 23 June
Team Leader, Inclusive Growth (P5) | UNDP | Istanbul, Turkey | Apply by 29 June
Consultant to Develop Gender Responsive Finance Modules/Financing Options and Strategies for Adaptive Social Protection Programmes (IC) | UNDP | Saint Lucia, Barbados | Apply by 29 June
Digital Transformation Specialist (IC) | UNDP | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | Apply by 1 July
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Your CoP team would love to hear from you! Contact us at cop-poverty@undp.org to send feedback or share content and events to be featured in our CoP Communications.
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