Humanity needs leadership and
solidarity to defeat the coronavirus.
By Claudia Mojica, Resident Representative, UNDP Chile.
This #GraphForThought zooms into the LAC region to see how key NCDs and NCD risk factors have been changing in recent decades—setting the stage for potentially elevated COVID-19 risk.
Partnerships with local community members and civil society have truly given a kind human face to the complex work of turning a rapidly growing city into a sustainable urban environment.
In order to gather a regional picture on how gender-based and domestic violence trends may be changing in LAC countries in the wake of the pandemic, this #GraphForThought collated monthly 2019 and 2020 data on call volume to helplines.
An agenda to advance towards just, inclusive and, resilient societies.
Featured Graph
Coronavirus: While the disease was slow to spread to Latin America and the Caribbean countries at first, since the end of February the number of confirmed cases has been climbing rapidly. Updated info here.
COVID-19 - Policy Document Series
This series aims at drawing from UNDP's own experience and knowledge globally and from the expertise and capacity of our partner think tanks and academic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, to promote a collective reflection on the response to the COVID-19 health crisis and its economic and social effects on our societies.
A tool for addressing public policy decisions supported on data
The United Nations Development Program in Latin America and the Caribbean and GRANDATA join forces to help governments and organizations in the region to combat COVID-19, creating a platform that facilitates the analysis of people's movements outside their homes.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
38%
of the population are considered vulnerable
80%
of the population lives in urban areas
37%
of all legislators and senior officials are female
40%
of the people in the region feel safe
