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Technology is enabling a group at risk of stigma and discrimination in Thailand to voice their concerns and make an impact.  iMonitor+ is a new

The new sustainable development agenda is transformative, rights-based and universal. Without a doubt, supporting countries to implement the new agenda requires a United Nations system that is “fit for purpose” and I see six steps we can take before 1 January 2016. We have a tremendous opportunity to re-position the UN system to maximize its unique comparative advantages in support of sustainable development.

The MDGs were brief enough to fit on the back of a business card. The 17 goals currently agreed are something different. One difference is how they tackle national obstacles (in developed and developing countries). The UN family and the Brazilian government, one of the leading champions of sustainable development in the world, have opened up a new dialogue mechanism to assess what works best in Brazil.

An ecosystem is a community of living organisms interacting as a system. The ecosystem is more than the sum of its parts: each member of the community depends on acting and working together. Becoming an ecosystem will require bringing together all the United Nations’ capacities, even the ‘soft’ ones – like our convening power . This will guarantee the system’s ability to act holistically and to link the national and global levels.

The data revolution is upon us. So they say and so it happens! Our United Nations office in Malawi has been developing a real-time programme monitoring framework. This is about monthly or quarterly data. So, it is not quite real-time but far more frequent than our traditional pace.

Montenegro sits at one far end of the vast and varied spectrum of countries in which the UN operates. It is upper-middle-income and a country on a

Conflicting emotions hit me today as I read of a man in Turkey who was given a life sentence after killing his wife for giving birth to a girl

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Preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cardio-vascular diseases, cancer