Regional Reports
Africa 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of hunger in the world. Until this situation improves, the human development prospects of millions of Africans will remain at risk. UNDP’s first Africa Human Development Report shows that food security and...Read more
Asia and the Pacific 2012: Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate
In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now,...Read more
Beyond Transition
The report looks at the vicious cycle of poverty from the perspective of those who experience it firsthand. The report presents findings from surveys in six countries and provides an overview of social exclusion in the region and recommended actions. The...Read more
Abrir espacios para la seguridad ciudadana y el desarrollo humano
La seguridad ciudadana se ha convertido en una de las principales preocupaciones de la población en América Latina y el Caribe y constituye un obstáculo objetivo para el desarrollo humano sostenible. Las personas y comunidades ven restringidas sus...Read more
Power, Voices and Rights
The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the Report chronicles how in many instances women across the region...Read more
Acting on the future
The Regional Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010 champions a new approach to understanding and tackling the prevailing inequality in terms of human development plaguing Latin American and Caribbean countries. The report is...Read more
Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries
In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This report is prepared by independent scholars drawn from the...Read more
Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives
Corruption has been seen as inevitable – unpleasant and unethical, but probably unavoidable. Now, however, it is increasingly being challenged as unacceptable across Asia and the Pacific. In the process, eliminating corruption that plagues people’s daily...Read more
Living with HIV in Eastern Europe and CIS
The report draws on data from an innovative six-country research study conducted by UNDP together with Oxford University researchers and local social research institutes and organisations of people living with HIV that looked at exclusion in the health,...Read more
