Events

Building enabling policy environments and promoting inclusive business in ASEAN: celebrating advances and envisioning the future. The Summit will be attended by representatives from the inclusive business ecosystem in ASEAN and will be held In Bangkok on 1 November 2019.

               

               

Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, 17 September 2019 Following a request from the Communication Information Technology Agency (ICTA) of Mongolia, ESCAP is working with the Pathways for Prosperity Commission on Technology and Inclusive Development (https://pathwayscommission.bsg.ox.ac.uk/) to support the Government of Mongolia design a national development strategy for Mongolia in the Digital Age.

  Inclusive Business Promotion in Cambodia and Proposed Inclusive Business Enabling Environment for Cambodia (IBeeC) Strategy

Regional event on "Innovation driven development: Building national institutional capacities in the least developed countries in Asia and the Pacific" organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), British Council and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) are honoured to invite you to join us at the AVPN Annual Conference for the Strategic Policy Dialogue in Singapore from 24th- 28th June 2019.

UN ESCAP is collaborating with the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Papua New Guinea Investment and Promotion Authority to jointly organize the APBF 2019 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on 21-21 June, 2019. The Forum is also being supported by Pacific Trade and Invest of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; the Business Council of Papua New Guinea; the Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

To meet the ambitions of the SDGs, we need inclusive businesses as well as responsible businesses if the principle of “leave no one behind” is to be realized. Inclusive businesses provide goods, services, and livelihoods - on a commercially viable basis - to people living at the base of the economic pyramid.

The inaugural Asia-Pacific Innovation Forum will take place in Tehran from 10 to 12 June 2019. The Forum is jointly organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Vice Presidency for Science and Technology).