Announcements
APPLYING AS THAI YOUTH VOLUNTEERS to participate in the 16th IAVE Asia Pacific Volunteer Conference.
The IAVE Asia Pacific Youth Volunteer Conference provides great opportunity for young volunteers aged between 18-25 years old to connect, share and learn from each other. This event aims to encourage participants to exchange their experiences on volunteerism happening in their countries as well as ...
Asia-Pacific AI Social Impact Summit
Organised by ESCAP and hosted by the Government of Thailand, the Summit will explore how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to promote social and economic impact and meet the Sustainable Development Goals. It will showcase research and spark discussion on creating an enabling environment for ...
Structural transformation and poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific countries with special needs
Despite steady economic growth in recent decades, the countries with special needs (CSN) in Asia and the Pacific continue to grapple with high rates of extreme income poverty. This is particularly the case in LDCs such as Timor-Leste (30%), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (23%), and ...
6th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
The 6th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum is scheduled to convene in Manila, the Philippines, from 17-19 October 2018.The event is organized by the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN), which is a regional programme for managing and applying adaptation knowledge in the region, and supports ...
Call for papers and photographs on shifting cultivation in Asia-Pacific
and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific” are calling for papers and photographs.The book will explore the ways in which today’s shifting cultivators are innovating and adjusting their traditional practices to cope with the modern challenges of population growth, market economies, shortages of land ...
Center for International Forestry Research
Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
The Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will focus on the theme, ‘Transformations towards sustainable and resilient societies’. In addition to discussing the theme of the July 2018 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2018) as it relates to regional and ...
Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development: Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies
As a regional and inclusive preparatory event for the high-level political forum on sustainable development that will be held under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in July 2018, the Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable ...
