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This IMF's How To Note on public investment outlines the key components for designing and managing public investment to ensure smart and fair, but also greener recovery from COVID-19.

This report examines critical policy gaps and barriers to climate finance, such as constrained fiscal space, weak institutional capacities to implement nationally determined contributions, policy and regulatory gaps, and lack of investment-ready projects.

This report explores how growing cities in the global South can ensure equitable access to urban services and opportunities.

This report outlines the status and trends of the sustainable debt market in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are generally small in population and land area, with fragile ecologies, and face diverse and distinct development trajectories. Many SIDS face common structural and fiscal development challenges including lack of economic diversification, inadequate social protections and inclusion, heavy debt and overdependency on imported fossil fuels. Further, their small size and geographies make SIDS extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

UNDP’s integrated SIDS offer Rising Up for SIDS articulates a clear strategy to respond to their most pressing needs as well as bring forth innovative solutions to the complex developmental challenges they face for a better future for people and planet. It acts as a vehicle for recovery committing to enhancing current support in areas of climate action, blue economy and digital transformation, with innovative development finance as an enabling cross-cutting area