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SDG Blockchain Accelerator: Driving SDG Impact in 2025
In 2025, the SDG Blockchain Accelerator delivered 46 pilot- and implementation-ready solutions, with 12 already entering real-world testing. Developed across two global cohorts, 70% of these solutions are embedded within ongoing national and regional programmes – positioning them to move beyond standalone experiments and into active use. The SDG Blockchain […]
UN Blockchain Talks #6: What real supply chains demand from traceability systems
By the time a product or service reaches the end user, most of the difficult work has already been done elsewhere. Someone had to collect […]
UN Blockchain Talks #5: What Bhutan’s national digital identity tells us about privacy and implementation
During the fifth session of the UN Blockchain Talks series, the discussion moved beyond whether blockchain can support digital identity. A more useful examination was […]
How four Ukrainian cities are seeking their future during the war
On the eve of the fifth year of full-scale war, four Ukrainian cities have taken on what seems like an impossible task: to determine their […]
What is the portfolio approach and how does it work? Ukraine’s experience
In 2025, four Ukrainian cities – Khmelnytskyi, Bucha, Zhytomyr, and Slavutych – joined the Mission-Oriented Economy local transformation programme, part of the EU-funded Mayors for […]
[Part 1] Behavioral science: One way towards a smarter policy action to reduce air pollution
UNDP North Macedonia and its AccLab team embarked on a journey to understand how using behavioral sciences and experiments (nudges) can help us tackle air […]
M4EG Partner Dialogue: What’s needed for city transformation?
The Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) initiative held a Partner Dialogue in Istanbul on 28 February 2023, bringing together representatives from the EU and UNDP and […]
Can LinkedIn data help us measure the glass ceiling?
Gender disparities persist globally, particularly in positions of power and higher pay, where women face cultural and professional barriers to advancement, which are often referred […]
UNDP North Macedonia: Citizen-centered financial management at the local level
On a daily basis, we receive toxic news about problems in the local finance – poor property tax collection, low fiscal effort, limited fiscal capacities, […]
UNDP Serbia at the 2022 Data Science Conference Europe
Big data from satellites, mobile phones, and social media, among other tools, allows researchers to build on or replace traditional methods of acquiring socioeconomic data. […]
Dynamically managing Urban Transformation portfolios: Our M4EG journey
Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG), a joint EU and UNDP initiative focused on reimagining urban and local spaces, is running a Portfolio Journey with 10 […]
How to make a portal for startup development: A Serbian experience
Reposted from UNDP Serbia. How to build an Internet portal which offers start-ups simple and user-friendly information needed for their further business development? This was […]
UNDP North Macedonia creates biowaste audit dashboard
The biowaste audit dashboard visualizes how commercial entities working in the capital city of North Macedonia – Skopje, particularly in the HORECA (Hotels, Restaurants and […]
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