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34 publications
Issue briefs

Responding to climate change in the mountains: Opportunities for parliamentarians to act

This Issues brief is designed to help parliamentarians identify policies and actions to adapt to the consequences of climate change in mountain ecoysystems. 

Handbooks

The path towards universal health coverage

Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.

Toolkits

Highlights from the Toolkit on Disaster Risk Reduction to achieve the SDGS

This brochure presents the highlights from the toolkit

Handbooks

Strengthening health security preparedness: The International Health Regulations (2005)

This handbook describes the role of parliaments in strengthening emergency preparedness and health security.

Reference

Guidelines for parliamentarians on budgeting for the SDGs: Making the most of public resources

Parliamentarians have a key role to play in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in ensuring that funding and resources are invested effectively to support sustainable deve

Toolkits

Disaster Risk Reduction to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

In 2019, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) passed the following resolution calling on parliamentarians to include disaster risk reduction (DRR) in their strategies for implementing and achieving

Issue briefs

A Winnable Battle: Parliamentarians and universal health coverage

Universal health coverage (UHC) means that everyone, regardless of their personal circumstances, should have access to affordable high-quality health services.

Handbooks

Handbook for parliamentarians on nutrition and food systems

One in three people globally suffers from at least one form of malnutrition, and the economic loss attributable to bad nutrition is estimated at US$ 3.5 trillion per year.

Other

Green approaches to COVID-19 recovery: Policy note for parliamentarians

This policy note, published with the United Nations Environmental Programme, sets out some of key approaches to help parliamentarians promote a sustainable and green recovery after the coronavirus

Reference

Guidelines for enhancing the engagement and contribution of parliaments to effective development cooperation

The Guidelines seek to provide parliaments and parliamentarians and those who work with them with a common understanding of development cooperation and offer ideas on what they

Handbooks

Road map for action on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

The right to health is a basic human right. Beyond that, having access to high-quality health services allows people to realize all their other rights.

Issue briefs

Shades of green: an introduction to the green economy for parliamentarians

All production and consumption has a direct impact on the environment in terms, e.g., of pollution, waste and resource depletion, which in turn affects human well-being and exacts an economic cost.