2025 Update of the United Nations Country Analysis (UNCA) for the Philippines

A comprehensive Common Country Analysis (CCA) was completed by the UNCT in June 2023 to provide the analytical basis for the formulation of the Philippine 2024-2028 United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (United Nations CF or CF) that was signed in October 2024. A CCA 2024 Update was completed by the UNCT in December 2024.

Scope

The circumstances for undertaking the 2025 country analysis of the Philippines sustainable development journey were unique given the plethora of in-depth analysis of major changes, development indicators, and emerging trends that were captured during the year through the following:

1. Philippine SDG 2024 Pace of Progress Results as of February 2025
2. Philippines Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2025 published in June 2025
3. 2025 Statistical Indicators of Philippine Development released in July 2025
4. Philippines Development Plan 2023-2028 (PDP) Midterm Update published in August 2025
5. Philippines Development Forum 2025 held on 6 October 2025.

The UNCA 2025 summarizes the UNCT’s reflections on the key changes in the context and trends in sustainable development indicators, and their implications for UN programming, approaches, and areas of engagement. The report tags updates that are relevant to the six transitions that have catalytic effects across all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to highlight the multidimensional and integrated nature of the analysis.[2] The report will build on, and not duplicate, the depth of the analysis present in the 2024 Update which documented the shifts in the country context from January 2023 until December 2024. More importantly, it does not duplicate the level of analysis already available in the documents listed above.

The UNCA 2025 is based on published information and data available on or before 30 November 2025. The UN analytical function is provided by United Nations staff from resident and non-resident agencies, funds and programmes operating in the Philippines, under the leadership of the internal UN Philippines coordination groups and oversight of the UNCT.