About United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA):
- Rooted in the United Nations Charter and guided by the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN DESA upholds the development pillar of the United Nations.
- It is based at UN Headquarters in New York, United States.
- Its Divisions and Offices work together towards a common goal to promote the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
- Its work addresses a range of cross-cutting issues that affect peoples’ lives and livelihoods.
- From poverty reduction to governance to finance to the environment, UN DESA’s work is about human progress for all, especially the most vulnerable.
- UN DESA’s work programme can be categorized into three areas: norm-setting, analysis, and capacity-building.
- What is UN DESA doing?
- Facilitates the negotiations of Members States in many intergovernmental bodies to address ongoing or emerging global challenges;
- Provides substantive support to intergovernmental processes on development issues in the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;
- Advises interested Governments on the ways and means of translating policy frameworks developed in the UN conferences and summits into programmes at the country level;
- Collaborate closely with its partners at regional and country levels in helping countries to formulate and implement development strategies;
- Compiles, generates, and analyses a wide range of economic, social, and environmental data and information on which member states of the United Nations draw.
- Reports Published by UN DESA:
- World Economic Situation and Prospects Report
- World Social Report
- Sustainable Development Goals Report.
