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June 2020
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Secretary General Outlines UN Response to COVID-19 and ​Roadmap to Build-back Better
  • With many countries still reeling from the health, social and economic fall-out  from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General,  António Guterres, has launched a comprehensive report  that outlines the Agency’s joint efforts to battle the global pandemic, while  charting a path to save lives, protect societies and recover better.
July 2020
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Joint SDG Fund Announces a Historical $US60 Million Grant to Close the SDG Financing Gap
  • ​Today, the UN’s Joint SDG Fund announces a historical $US60 million grant to close the SDG financing gap.  The multi-year commitment, with an initial disbursement of $29 million being released this month, is considered the largest systemic UN led initiative on SDG financing in its history. With funding to be distributed across all continents, 40% will invest in Least Developed Countries and ten initiatives are to be implemented in Small Island Developing States.
July 2020
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Press Release
UN report finds COVID-19 is reversing decades of progress on poverty, healthcare and education
  • The 15-year global effort to improve the lives of people everywhere through the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 was already off track by the end of 2019. And now, in only a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, causing further disruption to SDG progress, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the most, according to a new report released today by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
     
July 2020
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Press Release
​ Women leaders spotlight inspirational leadership to meet the human crisis of COVID-19
  • New York, – Women leaders from across different sectors will be speaking up at a special event convened by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday, 14 July (8:00 – 10:30 am EDT) to shine a light on front-line leadership that is winning against COVID-19 and that is inspiring action to emerge stronger together.