The next phase of UNDP’s COVID-19 crisis response is designed to help decision-makers look beyond recovery, towards 2030, making choices and managing complexity and uncertainty in four main areas: governance, social protection, green economy, and digital disruption. It encompasses our role in technically leading the UN’s socio-economic response. Governments and civil society will need to work together to advance social cohesion and gender equality while upholding human rights and the rule of law, especially in fragile and conflict-affected contexts where justice and security concerns may be more acute. UNDP will support its partners in making choices that build social capital, deliver inclusive services, and open civic space to lay the foundations for the future – a new social contract fully reflective of people’s agency that builds trust in institutions and closes the gap between people and the state. Read more here.
Source: UNDP