CDP News and Events

From 1 to 5 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) visited Dhaka, Chittagong and Cox´s Bazaar in Bangladesh to assess the possible impact of the countries’ graduation from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) category. Dur ...

On 27 September Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as speaker in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event ‘Curse or Cure? Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Technological Revolution’ organized by ...

On 24 September Committee for Development Policy (CDP) member Lindiwe Sibanda participates in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) side event ‘Data to end hunger’ as part of a group of storytellers from ‘The Moth Global Community Program’ who wil ...

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) approved the new members of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), nominated by the Secretary-General, for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2019 and expiring on 31 December 2021. The experts are nom ...

On 15 August the CDP Secretariat delivered a training workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan, on the Gradjet LDC graduation platform (www.gradjet.org), attended by 30 government officials, private sector and civil society stakeholders. Consultations with governme ...

On 27 July the CDP Secretariat published an interview with the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) about graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category. The interview explains the LDC category and what it takes for an LDC to graduate; which ...

On 24 July the Coordination and Management Meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) reviewed the Report of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on its twentieth session. The Council took note of the work done by the Committee on (a) le ...

This second lab, organized by the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) together with the Division for Inclusive Social Development and held on 16 July, addressed measures taken at national level in selected countries to improve the ...

The meeting, organized by the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and the Division for Sustainable Development Goals and held on 16 July, constituted the inaugural session of the VNR labs and featured two country representatives f ...