OPINION

Transformation, Inclusion, and Empowerment (TIE) for Lasting Peace"

On International Peace Day in 2021, the Philippines has a lot to celebrate. The Congress is close to passing the legislation that will extend the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) to 2025, giving it more time to fulfill its commitments under the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) signed in 2014, which ended four decades of violent civil conflict in the country’s far south. The BTA governs the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) created in 2019 under the peace agreement.

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Empowering Women in BARMM to Advance Through the Pandemic

Around 30 members from selected sewing groups in the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-tawi were recently provided a series of trainings on how to manufacture various kinds of personal protective equipment (PPEs), while more than a hundred other seamstresses are learning the proper way of sewing them.

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Deepening Socioeconomic Recovery from COVID-19 thru Innovations in Data and Policy

UNDP, in partnership with the Zero Extreme Poverty Coalition and the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP), unpacks two innovative research studies conducted by its Accelerator Lab and Pintig Lab to assess the socioeconomic situation of the Philippines in the time of #COVID19!

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The Numbers Are Breathing: The Case of Recovery and Long-Term Resilience in Bicol

How does long-term economic resilience look like in practice? Thrown like some special ribbon, “resilience” has found its place in the vernacular of the development sector.

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COVID-19 adversely impacted BARMM development despite fewer cases – UNDP report

The recently released Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of COVID-19 in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) undertaken by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Philippines indicated that despite logging relatively lower COVID-19 cases in the last year, BARMM—a region which registered a 5.9 percent gross regional domestic product growth in 2019 and was enjoying steady economic gains before 2020—was still disproportionately impacted by the pandemic in terms of its socioeconomic development and in aggravating existing and emerging vulnerabilities in the region.

PRESS RELEASE

MSME Sector is Key to COVID-19 Recovery

Manila, Philippines – Despite the lifting of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, majority of the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are still temporarily closed or are operating at decreased capacity—an indicator of the difficulties they are facing in getting back to their business operations according to the recent survey conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs in the Philippines.

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THE SEA IS THE FUTURE

An illegal fisher for almost half his life, Bok is now part of the global movement calling on world leaders to protect 30% of our blue planet by 2030.

Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

UNDP positioned itself early to support the Government to effectively manage the crisis and lay the foundations for an effective recovery. Our investment focused on: strengthening the capture and analysis of key data to inform the health response and better understand the multi-dimensional impact of the crisis; rapidly demonstrating the viability of digital platforms like mobile wallets to expedite payments to the poorest of the poor; and establishing crisis coordination and management structures in BARMM.

UNDP’s COVID 2.0 offer – Moving Beyond Recovery and Towards 2030 - now enables us to further build on these core investments as well as support the Philippines’ capacity for anticipatory governance to enable it to shape a resilient future in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world and regain its momentum towards the attainment of the SDGs.

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UNDP has been working in the Philippines for over 40 years. Today, it continues to strengthen the country’s capacities at the national and local levels to promote democratic governance, sustainable management of natural resources, climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, and resilience and peacebuilding. In all its programmes, UNDP integrates human rights and gender equality, believing that everyone should have equal access to the benefits of development.

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Transformation, Inclusion, and Empowerment (TIE) for Lasting Peace"

Empowering Women in BARMM to Advance Through the Pandemic

Deepening Socioeconomic Recovery from COVID-19 thru Innovations in Data and Policy

The Numbers Are Breathing: The Case of Recovery and Long-Term Resilience in Bicol

COVID-19 adversely impacted BARMM development despite fewer cases – UNDP report

MSME Sector is Key to COVID-19 Recovery

THE SEA IS THE FUTURE

Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

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