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HLPF Event: Accelerating Progress Towards Zero Hunger (SDG2) in Fragile and Least Developed Countries in a Polycrisis World

MTAVARES1 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Tuesday, 09 July 2024 - 1:00pm

9 July 2024. This side event at the 2024 High Level Political Forum marked the official launch of the Global Task Force which aims to elevate the dialogue on how robust national social protection systems can serve as a critical lever for achieving sustained progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), particularly in fragile and least developed countries (FLDCs) disproportionally battered by the polycrisis.

Recording here.

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9th Global Aid for Trade Review side event: Strategies to position trade at the core of the LDC development agenda

MTAVARES1 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Thursday, 27 June 2024 - 12:00pm

27 June 2024,

Organized by UNCTAD, Commonwealth Secretariat, Government of Nepal.

Information here.

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HLPF 2023: LDCs' Access to Finance, Missing Links and Ways Forward (UN-OHRLLS, Canada, Nepal, Lesotho)

MTAVARES1 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:15:00 +0000

Wednesday, 19 July 2023 - 1:15pm

19 July 2023. Despite the trend towards more financing through multilateral platforms, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) still face myriad challenges to accessing sufficient resources to achieve their sustainable development and climate objectives. With support from Canada, UN OHRLLS conducted a study in late 2022/early 2023 that directly engaged with LDC finance and planning ministries to better understand and synthesize their experience in accessing traditional loans and grants, as well as climate finance, to advance national projects and programs. This event will present the findings of the study and a high-level panel will discuss the recommendations and ways forward.

More information and report: LDCs' Access to Finance - Missing Links and Ways Forward | Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

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From OHRLLS: Nepal takes over as LDC Chair

MTAVARES1 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:00:00 +0000

10 April 2023.

Nepal has taken over as Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) after five years of stewardship by Malawi. News item here.

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South-South Exchange on Preparing Smooth Transition Strategies: Graduating cohort of 2021

MTAVARES1 — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Tuesday, 23 August 2022 - 9:00am to Thursday, 25 August 2022 - 6:00pm

South-South Exchange on Preparing Smooth Transition Strategies: Graduating cohort of 2021 | Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

In 2021, the Committee for Development Policy for the United Nations (CDP) recommended Bangladesh, Lao PDR, and Nepal for graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status.

In light of the exceptional circumstances posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Nepal were afforded an extended 5-year preparatory period, in place of the standard 3 years. Since this recommendation, the COVID-19 crisis was compounded by the high cost of food and energy as well as financial constraints, further complicating the efforts of the world’s most vulnerable states in achieving sustainable development.

All three countries are expected to use the preparatory period to develop their Smooth Transition Strategies (STS) ensuring that their development momentum is maintained, while preventing any disruptions to their development progress and ensuring the sustainability of their graduation.

Graduating countries will face several challenges, but also opportunities. By enhancing collaboration between each other during the preparation stages, Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Nepal will be able to benefit from these opportunities while developing their strategies. In this context, the UN - through iGRAD (Sustainable Graduation Support Facility), a country-led, partnership-based global platform offered through the Inter-agency Task Force on LDC graduation (IATF) - is providing integrated capacity-building support in the form of policy and technical advisory and financial support, as recognized in the Doha Programme of Action. It will contribute to smooth transition and sustainable graduation of Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Nepal. This South-South-Exchange workshop is one of the many modalities being offered via iGRAD through the IATF. It is expected to re-energize the STS preparation process, learn from the industry/sector experts, share ideas amongst each other, and devise some common guidelines for transition.

Government officials and key stakeholders from the private sector, academia, research institutes, think tanks and civil society, at the technical level, who would directly work on formulating and drafting the STS in their respective countries are expected to attend the event alongside representatives from RCOs, DESA, ESCAP, OHRLLS, and other relevant UN agencies. The workshop is being funded by DESA as a contribution to iGRAD and through its Project “New assistance measures for graduating LDCs”, supported by the UN Peace and Development Fund.

Objectives:

Discuss common challenges of graduation and identify pathways to address them collaboratively in devising the STS.
Identify key international support for the Smooth Transition Strategies of each country and devise plans for advocacy.
Advocate jointly and separately for effective international support for the implementation of national Smooth Transition Strategies.

Key deliverables:

Working papers or presentations on key challenge areas for graduating LDCs.
Accumulation of views from policymakers, private sector, development partners, academia, and CSOs on graduation related challenges and recommendations to overcome them in their respective country context.
STS processes of the graduating cohort of 2021.
Common advocacy points for the Fifth UN Conference on LDCs (LDC5) Part Two (to be held in Doha in March 2023).

Sustainable Graduation in the challenging situation: Perspectives from Bangladesh and the Region in light of Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) - ESCAP Side event at CS78

MTAVARES1 — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:30:00 +0000

Monday, 23 May 2022 - 1:30pm

Organized by the Governments of Bangladesh and Nepal, this event was held as a side-event to ESCAP's 78th Session.

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The Bangladesh’s Side-Event on “Sustainable Graduation in the challenging situation: Perspectives from Bangladesh and the Region in light of Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) “is centered around this year’s theme topic and 2030 agenda for sustainable development as well as Doha Programme of Action. Bangladesh has got growth momentum over the years and recommended in the just concluded second consecutive triennial review by the CPD of ECOSOC to graduate from LDC category. But unprecedented challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic made it more challenging.

Similar sustainable development challenges are also facing all other developing countries in this region. International community, UN and other multi-lateral bodies has role to support countries in steering and guiding the process of sustainable development. This Side-Event will try to focus on International Support Measures (ISMs) needed for the countries in the region for their sustainable development specially programme of actions suggested in the just concluded 1st part of LDC5(DPoA) amidst this unprecedented challenging time.

More information here.

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General Assembly issues resolution on the graduation of Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Nepal

MTAVARES1 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 23:00:00 +0000

24 November 2021. �鶹��ý General Assembly has adopted resolution A/76/L.6/Rev.1, on the Graduation of Bangladesh, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Nepal from the least developed country category. The three countries will graduate from the LDC category after an exceptionally extended preparatory period of five years (the standard period is of three years) to enable them to prepare for graduation while planning for a post-COVID-19 recovery and implementing policies and strategies to reverse the economic and social damage incurred by the COVID-19 shock.

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