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The most recent in the series of Policy Briefs on Ageing is "Mainstreaming Ageing - Revisited"Unofficial translation (GER)
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Strategic communication is a relatively new concept for most statistical organizations, which have traditionally focused their efforts and resources on dissemination practices and systems. A strategic communication function can guide the development and implementation of a communication strategy. This has particular relevance for the world of official statistics, where communication and
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This study summarizes the key findings of the ninth study, which focuses on Serbia. It was carried out pursuant to the Government’s request to support ongoing efforts to increase the trade sector’s contribution to development and the implementation of the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The study was prepared by the UNECE secretariat in close consultation with public and private-sector
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This report summarizes the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic had, during the first three quarters of 2020, on the forest sector of countries in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia), focusing on production, export, import, consumption, prices and employment of the main wood products: roundwood, sawnwood, woodbased panels, wooden furniture,
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The National Trade Facilitation Roadmap of the Kyrgyz Republic 2021-2025 serves as the guiding framework for comprehensive national trade facilitation reforms over a five-year period. The Roadmap sets out a strategic vision and respective goals and activities for the Kyrgyz Republic to implement. Through these activities the Kyrgyz Republic can transform its trade facilitation services to
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The Report presents a thematic regional analysis of unpaid work of women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) and the resulting empowerment women gain when their responsibility for such work is reduced. The report concludes with policy recommendations that prioritize the importance of unpaid work as a barrier to women’s economic empowerment. Removing this barrier require specific
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Opportunities and challenges for gender equality in the COVID-19 recovery
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of investment in the care economy for successful response, recovery and “building back better” from the pandemic. The report provides evidence on UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) member states´ efforts to secure and expand care-focused investment during the pandemic response
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This assessment was conducted between 18 June 2020 and 3 June 2021 with the objective of analysing the developments and challenges in the management of biodiversity and protected areas (PAs) in 14 countries that carried out and completed a ECE Environmental Performance Review (EPR) under its 3rd cycle (further 3EPR) since 2014. This includes Albania (2018), Belarus (2016), Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The construction and maintenance of road infrastructure is an important area of most countries’ national economies, but also one of the least digitized sub-sectors. It suffers from the presence of systemic shortcomings including an insufficient level of cooperation, inadequate information management, and limited investment in technology, research and development. These shortcomings often result
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Данное руководство по подготовке национальных генеральных планов в области грузовых перевозок и логистики было разработано с целью продемонстрировать значение сектора грузовых перевозок для национального экономического развития и, что еще важнее, с целью предоставить национальным органам, отвечающим за грузовые перевозки и логистику, информацию о возможных действиях, направляющих развитие этого
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Le Manuel pour l'élaboration de plans directeurs nationaux sur le transport de marchandises et la logistique a été élaboré en vue de montrer l'importance du secteur du fret pour le développement économique national et, surtout, d'aider les autorités nationales responsables du transport de marchandises et de la logistique à accompagner le développement du secteur sur une voie durable favorable au
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This Handbook for national master plans for freight transport and logistics has been elaborated with the aim to showcase the importance of the freight sector for the national economic development, and more importantly to assist national authorities in charge of freight transport and logistics with potential actions in accompanying the sector development to follow a sustainable path in support of
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Historically, extractive industries have also been a major driver of economic growth, particularly for now-advanced economies that benefitted during and after the Industrial Revolution. Currently, mineral resource extraction plays a dominant role in the economies of 81 countries that account for a quarter of global GDP, half of the world’s population and nearly 70 per cent of those living in
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In some countries in the pan-European region, cycling is not viewed as an equal mode of transport and is not fully incorporated into national policies on transport, health and environment, nor, in many cases, is it included in curriculums for future town planners. A systematic plan, adopted internationally, will help national and local stakeholders streamline their efforts to promote cycling in
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At the Fourth High-level Meeting on Transport, Health and Environment (Paris, April 2014), member States decided “to initiate the development of a pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion, supported by guidelines and tools to assist in the development of cycling promotion policies at the national level. This new initiative will be undertaken within the framework of THE PEP partnerships”.
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This report captures the collective results of the regional United Nations system in Europe and Central Asia in 2020. In the reporting period, the regional UN entities provided collective support and offered policy guidance and tools to address key sustainable development challenges in the region. Transitioning to the new architecture of the Regional Collaborative Platform, the regional UN system
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The Trans-European North-South Motorway (TEM) Project was initiated to facilitate road traffic in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and to assist with the process of integrating European transport infrastructure systems.
One of the objectives of the Project is to improve the road network’s management. This report aims to provide TEM member countries with up-to-date information about how
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The Trans-European North-South Motorway (TEM) Project was initiated to facilitate road traffic in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and to assist with the process of integrating European transport infrastructure systems.
In order to improve the road network’s management, the Project provides TEM member countries with benchmarking of the current capacities of asset management, with up-to-
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Проведение мероприятий, связанных с правилами в области транспортных средств, показало, что благодаря присоединению к Cоглашению 1998 года уровень безопасности транспортных средств значительно повысится. Однако основным вопросом для многих стран является подготовка к присоединению к Соглашению и его осуществлению, с тем чтобы они могли извлечь пользу из положений, предусматривающих