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LDC Sustainable Graduation Support Facility - Note December 2021

Document Summary: 
The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in its 2019 plenary recommended that capacity development work be undertaken in support of graduating and graduated countries and requested its secretariat, as part of its capacity development activities and in close collaboration with other relevant United Nations entities, to explore the creation of a graduation support facility (see E/2019/33, para 76). DESA as the CDP Secretariat has designed a Sustainable Graduation Support Facility (SGSF) in collaboration with OHRLLS as Chair of the UN InterAgency Task Force on LDC Graduation (IATF) and piloted the Facility in collaboration with ESCAP, in Vanuatu in August 2020 to help the country in preparation for its effective graduation on December 4, 2020 in the midst of double adversities ¨C the COVID-19 pandemic and a cyclone.
Author: 
CDP/OHRLLS
Publication Date: 
2021