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Too Slow and Not Steady: But with concrete action, Latin America and the Caribbean can still accelerate progress to achieve the SDGs

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8 ways to tackle inequality while promoting a green economy in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is an upper-middle-income country, but it’s also upper-middle in terms of size: it is the second largest country in the Caribbean after Cub...

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Let communities lead: HIV law and policy reform by and for key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Climate change’s impact on coastal flooding to increase 5-times over this century, putting over 70 million people in the path of expanding floodplains, according to new UNDP and CIL data

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Too Slow and Not Steady: But with concrete action, LAC can still accelerate progress to achieve the SDGs

Using data collected by ECLAC, this #GraphForThought explores how Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is fairing in terms of achieving the 169 SDG Targets. As c...

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Turning Knowledge into Action: Spotlight Initiative's Knowledge Fair to End Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean

The world's largest effort to end violence against women and girls, the Spotlight Initiative (SI), is set to host the Knowledge Fair: Empowering Voices, Ending Ge...

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Our focus is to help countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean region build and share solutions in their sustainable development pathways, with inclusive and effective democratic governance, building climate and disaster resilience.

In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development, knowledge and experience-sharing and the empowerment of women.

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Regional Human Development Report 2021

Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of great contrasts, where wealth and prosperity coexist with vulnerability and extreme poverty. The list of contrasts is long and familiar. The region is also characterized by very volatile and low average growth, explained by low productivity. This Regional Human Development Report argues that the region is caught in a trap of high inequality and low growth. These two phenomena interact in a vicious circle that limits the ability to advance on all fronts of human development. Understanding the nature of the trap is critical to breaking free from it.

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UNDP LAC Working Paper Series

This series aims to disseminate research in progress relevant to advancing our understanding of complex development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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UNDP LAC Policy Documents Series

This series aims to draw from UNDP's own global experience and knowledge and from the expertise and capacity of our partner think tanks and academic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to promote a collective reflection on the region's development challenges.

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UNDP LAC Policy Notes

The purpose of the UNDP LAC Policy Notes series is to make visible the work carried out by our offices in the region.

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Graph For Thought

Graph For Thought is a series of technical articles that shows data illustrating how different economic, social or environmental problems are taking shape in the region.

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Learning from Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Learning from Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a thematic knowledge brief series jointly developed by the UNDP's Regional Bureau for LAC and the UNDP Accelerator Labs

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High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS)

To continue monitoring how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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A Better World for Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean

This book is the result of a joint research initiative between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to improve the welfare conditions of migrants in LAC and contribute to facilitating their assimilation into society through information and influence in policy design.

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Development Futures Series

Analysis and practical insights for the future of sustainable development

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Come hell or high water

Among other efforts, UNDP provided approximately 11,000 tarps for temporary shelter. More than 18,000 people received mattresses. “There were families all sleepin...

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Educational Inclusion of Transgender People in Argentina

UNDP, through its office in Argentina, provides technical support to the Popular High School Mocha Celis to strengthen its educational program and expand it with ...

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Being a Migrant in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean went from hosting 7 million migrants in 1990 to having an immigrant population of almost 15 million in 2020, being the region of t...

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Composting, a practice that values our waste

On International Zero Waste Day, we present the city of Comayagua in Honduras, a benchmark in waste management.

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Towards an Inclusive Digital Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean

Several initiatives seek to brake gender gaps in access to technologies.

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2022 system-wide results report of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean (RCP LAC)

This updated Regional Collaborative Platform LAC will provide strategic direction in three main priority areas: promoting regional coherence regarding global prio...

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A universal social protection system at the core of a new fiscal pact in Latin America and the Caribbean

This note aims to place the creation of a USPS at the center of the fiscal discussion in the region. To this end, the following section analyzes the importance fo...

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Digitalization as a Driver of Inclusion

UNDP´s efforts have accelerated the process of digital transformation in LAC, establishing that inclusive digitalization can serve as a powerful tool for empowerm...

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Building inclusive democracies: A guide to strengthening the participation of LGBTI+ persons in political and electoral processes

Through this groundbreaking research, UNDP offers guidance, practical tools and entry points for promoting human rights, inclusion and greater participation of LG...

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Empowering Migrants and Communities: Private Sector Engagement for Inclusive Sustainable Development

The need to expand private sector engagement for enhanced migration and sustainable development outcomes is very clear. International agreements, like the Global ...

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