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United Nations ECE Economic and Social Council - Economic Commission for Europe

24 May 2023

The Bureau of the Team will decide on the specific topic in consultation with the Team members. [...] The 2023 session of the Working Group on Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development of the UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) will be organized together with UNESCAP. [...] In follow-up to the national Innovation for Sustainable Development Review of Uzbekistan, the Government of Uzbekistan has requested follow-up capacity building to help implement the recommendations of the Review, highlighting a particular interest in the topic of innovation for the green and circular transition. [...] Work on developing international good practice on transformative innovation policy and on building the capacity of national innovation agencies on this topic will continue under the auspices of the ECE Transformative Innovation Network (ETIN) launched at the 2022 session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies. [...] The focus of the work on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is supporting ECE member States' use of PPPs to address a range of issues in the context of relevant cross- cutting Commission themes, sustainable economic recovery and reconstruction, corruption in PPPs, pandemic preparedness and response, food security, women's empowerment, and accelerating achievement of the SDGs in the ECE region.

Authors

Ludmila Boichuk

Pages
3
Published in
Switzerland