Medium Level – GK Questions

GASP promotes a performance-based approach where states and industry set safety targets, measure outcomes, and implement data-driven interventions. This shifts focus from compliance with prescriptive rules to achieving measurable safety improvements globally.

The WIPO Development Agenda comprises 45 recommendations across six clusters, emphasizing technical assistance, technology transfer, access to medicines, and capacity-building for developing countries. It ensures IP systems support innovation while addressing development needs.

The UPR is a unique mechanism where all 193 UN member states' human rights records are reviewed every 4.5 years by peers. It promotes universal accountability, sharing of best practices, and capacity-building to improve human rights situations globally.

Launched in 2022, Partner2Connect is a multi-stakeholder platform that catalyzes pledges for affordable connectivity, digital adoption, and skills development. It focuses on least developed countries, landlocked developing states, and small island developing states to leave no one behind in the digital era.

Migration Health Division works with governments to ensure migrants' health rights are protected and that health systems are migrant-inclusive. This includes pre-departure health assessments, travel health, destination country integration, and return/reintegration health support, aligned with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being).

Green Industry Platforms foster multi-stakeholder dialogue and action on sustainable industrial practices. They promote circular economy models, clean technologies, energy efficiency, and eco-innovation to decouple industrial growth from environmental degradation and climate impact.

GF-TADs addresses high-impact transboundary animal diseases. Priority diseases include FMD, PPR, avian influenza, rabies, and ASF. The framework supports countries in surveillance, vaccination, emergency response, and regional coordination to reduce disease burden and safeguard livelihoods.

TRS is a standardized WCO tool for diagnosing customs and border agency efficiency. By tracking goods movement from arrival to release, it pinpoints delays (documentation, inspections, payments) and supports evidence-based reforms to reduce trade costs and enhance competitiveness.

Anticipatory Action uses weather forecasts and risk analysis to trigger pre-planned interventions (e.g., cash transfers, evacuations) before disasters strike. This reduces impacts, saves lives, and is more cost-effective than post-disaster response, embodying a proactive humanitarian approach.

The Olympic Truce (Ekecheiria) is a UN-endorsed resolution urging member states to observe peace before, during, and after the Games. It leverages sport's convening power to create windows for dialogue, humanitarian access, and conflict de-escalation, advancing the Olympic ideal of peace.

The BEPS Project, involving over 140 jurisdictions, developed 15 actions to ensure multinationals pay tax where economic activity occurs. Key outcomes include country-by-country reporting, anti-abuse rules, and the global minimum tax (Pillar Two) to create a fairer international tax system.

The Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database holds over 80 million records. Border control officers can check passports in real-time via I-24/7 to detect fraudulent documents, enhancing border security and combating human trafficking, terrorism, and irregular migration.

Early Warning for All focuses on hydrometeorological hazards: floods, droughts, storms, heatwaves, and related water extremes. It strengthens observation networks, forecasting, risk communication, and preparedness, particularly in vulnerable developing countries, to save lives and livelihoods.

The Yearbook is a key reference for policymakers, investors, and researchers. It tracks progress on renewable energy deployment globally, highlighting trends in solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, geothermal, and ocean energy, supporting evidence-based decision-making for the energy transition.

The CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) is foundational to information security. ISO 27001 helps organizations systematically manage risks to information assets, ensuring they remain accessible to authorized users when needed, while protected from unauthorized access or alteration.

P4P, operational in over 30 countries, transforms WFP's food assistance into a development tool. By sourcing locally where possible and supporting farmer organizations, it strengthens agricultural value chains, reduces post-harvest losses, and builds resilient local food systems.

IFAD focuses exclusively on rural poverty reduction. Its projects empower smallholder farmers, landless workers, indigenous peoples, and rural women/youth by improving access to resources, markets, finance, technology, and climate-resilient practices to enhance food security and incomes.

USOAP conducts comprehensive audits of states' safety oversight capabilities across eight critical elements (e.g., legislation, licensing, surveillance). Results are published on the ICAO website, promoting transparency, accountability, and targeted assistance to improve global aviation safety.

The PCT system simplifies seeking patent protection internationally. Applicants file one 'international' application (in one language, with one office), which preserves rights in designated countries while deferring national phase costs and allowing time to assess commercial potential.

The GCI assesses national cybersecurity maturity. The cooperation pillar evaluates international partnerships, information sharing, and participation in global cybersecurity initiatives. High GCI scores indicate strong national frameworks and active global engagement for a safer digital ecosystem.