Hnin Ei Lwin

The Global Assessment Report (GAR)  on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)  2025 highlights that disasters, both natural and human-made, pose a serious threat to lives, livelihoods, and development, especially in vulnerable countries. Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing states face steep challenges in disaster risk reduction, often limited by resources and technical capacity despite strong commitment. The report stresses that proactive investment in resilience, risk-informed planning, and sustainable development is essential to break cycles of repeated losses. GAR 2025 calls on governments, communities, and the private sector to strengthen resilience and better protect lives, infrastructure, and economies.  Recent events, including the March 2025 earthquake in Myanmar and October and November cyclones in the Philippines, highlight the urgency of investing in resilience. Link to the report:  https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar20...

According to the 2025   “ Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) ”  Report ,  international funding for the humanitarian sector is declining at a rate never seen before, indicating a financial crisis. Public funds for humanitarian aid could be cut by up to 45% in 2024 compared to 2023 due to reductions from major government donors, with additional cuts anticipated in 2025. This dramatic drop poses a threat to the implementation of crucial reforms aimed at improving the effectiveness of aid, such as early crisis prevention and support for national and local organi z ations. More than ever, countries coping with protracted crises are at greater risk. Over the past decade, debt payments have doubled, and humanitarian aid has emerged as their primary external source of support. Their capacity to recover sustainably is seriously called into question by this. In response, the United Nations has called for a   ‘humanitarian reset’   to tackle what it describes as a ...

In the “States of Fragility 2025” report, OECD defines   fragility  as the combination of risk exposure and a state, system, or community's insufficient resilience. The organization assessed this condition using   56 indicators across six dimensions: economic, environmental, political, security, societal, and human. While all   177 contexts  analyzed by the OECD show some level of fragility,   61 are identified with high or extreme levels. These areas face overlapping crises related to armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate and environmental stress, debt burdens, and worsening food insecurity and gender inequality. This is happening as international investment in peace and conflict prevention is at its second-lowest level since 2004. The report highlights how state and non-state actors are increasingly exploiting fragility for geopolitical and economic gain, which undermines development efforts. All in all, the report calls for urgent, coordinated in...

The World Social Report 2025 stands as a timely reminder of the challenges that remain hanging over most of humanity worldwide. The reality of financial hardship is stark: more than 2.8 billion people survive with less than $6.85 a day, mostly engaged in informal and unsafe jobs, with no social protection to speak of.   Inequalities cease to just persist: they are widening with climate change, very fast technological development, and poor access to opportunities. All the while, trust in institutions weakens, and digital misinformation pulls apart the social fabric. This report, therefore, calls for forging a new policy consensus founded on equity, economic security for all, and solidarity: a practical, forward-looking program that includes: 1.  Investing in people: This means making sure everyone has access to quality education, healthcare, housing, and clean energy. -   Improving access to quality education, health services, housing, and clean energy -   Addressing ...

Global Gender Gap Report - 2025 June - by the World Economic Forum  ISBN-13: 978-2-940631-89-6 https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2025.pdf The report and an interactive data platform are available at https://www.weforum.org/publications/ gender-gap-report-2025/. The Global Gender Gap Index, a benchmark established in 2006, systematically tracks gender parity across four key dimensions (subindexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. The 2025 report indicates a global gender gap closure of 68.8%. Among the 148 countries covered in this year's index, the Health and Survival gap has closed by an impressive 96.2%, and the Educational Attainment gap by 95.1%. However, substantial disparities remain in Economic Participation and Opportunity, which has closed by only 61.0%, and particularly in Political Empowerment, with just 22.9% closed. While this represents ongoing progress, the current trajectory...