As Costa Rica takes the lead in implementing the Global Digital Compact, the Secretary-General's UN 2.0 vision strengthens UN capabilities and the Resident Coordinator system turns global ambition into national action, ensuring a safer digital future for all.
With leadership from the Government of Panamá, and support from the UN, including the Resident Coordinator’s Office and the UN Youth Office, a new youth-led process is taking shape in Colón, bringing together data, history and lived experience to advance racial equality.
A UN-supported programme in Lao PDR's Houaphanh Province is working with local farmers to grow sustainable coffee bean harvests that have yielded higher incomes, empowered women and offered a scalable model for future economic and social progress.
Amid service gaps and a lack of coordinated recourse for survivors, the UN is engaging civil society, private sector and Government partners to ensure that prevention and support efforts address the multidimensional causes and consequences of gender-based violence.
UN Resident Coordinators and Country Teams are working with governments, civil society and communities to move women’s rights and opportunities from promises to practice across security institutions, laws, programmes and peacekeeping efforts.
By supporting new broadband connection points and digital skills training, the UN-backed "Connected Communities" initiative is unlocking access to education, public services and economic resilience for women and rural communities in Chile.
With financing from the Joint SDG Fund, a new UN programme is supporting local governments in Georgia to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals with new planning tools, partnerships across industries and systems for tracking results.
Under the Spotlight Initiative 2.0, the UN and partners have reached over 77,000 children and youth across 17 districts in Uganda with psychosocial, economic and educational interventions, supporting survivors as they rebuild their lives one small act of healing at a time.
Despite progress, just 12.9 per cent of women in Montenegro hold ownership or rights to agricultural land. The UN is providing technical expertise and support to address systemic barriers for rural women, in alignment with national priorities and international commitments.
With financing from the Joint SDG Fund, the UN is supporting farmers in Nkhundye to embrace clean energy technologies for household use and agro-processing, leading to improved food security, lower household costs and new market opportunities.
