LDCs

The CDP Secretariat participated in the High-level Meeting on ‘Achieving Sustainable Graduation for the LDCs’ held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 29-30 November 2017. The meeting was organized jointly by the Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs ...

The CDP Secretariat participated as panelist at DESA’s special event “Building Capacity for the 2030 Agenda – UN DESA’s contribution”, arranged on the sidelines of the work of the GA’s Second Committee on 27 November 2017 by the Capacity Development Of ...

The CDP Secretariat participated in the capacity building workshop on ‘Formulating National Policies and Strategies in Preparation for Graduation from the LDC Category’ held in Thimphu, Bhutan during 14 - 16 November 2017. The meeting was organized joi ...

On 17 July 2017 Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee’s findings on “Lessons learned in developing productive capacities from countries graduating and graduated from the LDC categor ...

Professor Keith Nurse, Rapporteur of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's Report on it's 19th Session to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting (CMM) held on 6 July 2017. The CDP's deliberations on LDC-related ...

OHRLLS is convening a consultative meting of LDCs and Friends of LDCs on the implementation of the SDGs and Istanbul Programme of Action for the LDCs. Increasingly urgent and complex challenges that are driving the development needs and vulnerabilities ...

The list of least developed countries (LDCs) is getting smaller. On 4 June 2017 Equatorial Guinea graduated from the LDC category, 3 ½ years after the United Nations General Assembly decided on the graduation date and 8 years after the CDP recommended ...

CDP Policy Review No. 6 By Teresa Lenzi This paper analyzes the advantages that LDCs have derived from the various LDC-specific international support measures due to their LDC status. It identi­fies the reasons why some UN development system organizati ...

Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated as panelist at the ECOSOC Integration Segment on 10 May 2017. The session under the theme "Bringing the ECOSOC System Together" featured representatives of ...