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LDC5: From Potential to Prosperity
5-9 MARCH 2023 DOHA, QATAR
The world’s Least Developed Countries are in a race against time to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The remaining years need to usher in a new global partnership to ensure these 46 countries benefit from social, economic and environmental development.
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to accelerate sustainable development in the places where international assistance is needed the most - and to tap the full potential of the Least Developed Countries helping them make progress on the road to prosperity.
Outcomes of roundtables & tracks
The Doha Programme of Action reminds us that global recovery depends on LDCs getting the support they need.
They need bold investments in health, education and social protection systems — all the resources required to fully implement Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Programme
Over five days of the LDC5 Conference in Doha, world leaders will gather with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to advance new ideas, raise new pledges of support, and spur delivery on agreed commitments, through the Doha Programme of Action. At the Conference, it is expected that specific initiatives and concrete deliverables will be announced that will address LDC-specific challenges.
The Conference will feature plenary sessions, parallel high-level thematic roundtables, and a series of parallel and side events on various thematic priorities of the DPoA. A Summit level meeting of the LDC Group, chaired by the President of Malawi, will be held on the day before the Conference. A commemoration event on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Group of LDCs will be held after the opening session on 5 March 2023. There will also be dedicated events for the Private Sector, CSOs, Youth, Parliamentarians and South-South tracks on the margins of the Conference.
Official Meetings
Focused Tracks
Side Events
Doha Programme of Action
Part 1: 17 March, 2022
Part 2: 5 to 9 March 2023
Six key focus areas
- Investing in people, eradicating poverty and building capacity
- Leveraging the power of science, technology & innovation
- Supporting structural transformation as a driver of prosperity
- Enhancing international trade and regional integration
- Tackling climate change, COVID-19 & building resilience
- Mobilizing international partnerships for sustainable graduation
Full implementation of the DPoA will help the LDCs to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as the resulting negative socio-economic impacts, return to a pathway to achieve the SDGs, address climate change challenges, and makes strides towards sustainable and irreversible graduation.