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Comprehensive programmes of action for LDCs were adopted in successive United Nations Conferences on the Least Developed Countries.

The most recent is the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2022-2031 (DPoA), adopted on 17 March 2022 during the first part of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in 2022.  As stated in the text itself:

The Doha Programme of Action for the decade 2022–2031 is a new generation of renewed and strengthened commitments by the least developed countries and their development partners grounded in the overarching goals of achieving rapid, sustainable and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, building resilience against future shocks, eradicating extreme poverty, strengthening labour markets by promoting the transition from informal to formal employment, enabling graduation from the least developed country category, facilitating access to sustainable and innovative financing, addressing inequalities, within and among countries, leveraging the power of science, technology and innovation, mainstreaming tech drivenentrepreneurship, bringing about structural transformation and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, through a reinvigorated global partnership for sustainable development based on scaled-up and ambitious means of implementation and diverse support for the least developed countries in forging the widest possible coalition of multi-stakeholder partnerships.

The six focus areas of the DPoA are:

(a) Investing in people in least developed countries: eradicating poverty and building capacity to leave no one behind;

(b) Leveraging the power of science, technology, and innovation to fight against multidimensional vulnerabilities and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals;

(c) Supporting structural transformation as a driver of prosperity; (d) Enhancing international trade of least developed countries and regional integration;

(e) Addressing climate change, environmental degradation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and building resilience against future shocks for risk-informed sustainable development;

(f) Mobilizing international solidarity, reinvigorated global partnerships and innovative tools and instruments: a march towards sustainable graduation.

Previous programmes:

  • The Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries (SNPA) was adopted in 1981 by the first United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Its aim was to transform the LDC economies and enable them to provide minimum standards of nutrition, health, housing and education as well as job opportunities to their citizens, particularly to the rural and urban poor.
  • Recognizing that during the 1980s the situation of the LDCs had worsened, the Paris Programme of Action of the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s was adopted at the Second United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in 1990. Priority areas were macroeconomic policy; human resources development; reversing the trend towards environmental degradation and reinforcing action to address disasters; rural development and food production; and the development of a diversified productive sector.
  • The Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 was adopted shortly after the Millennium Declaration and had an overarching goal of substantially reducing the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger in the LDCs and to promote sustainable development. Additional priorities included developing human and institutional resources; removing supply-side constraints and enhancing productive capacity; accelerating growth; and expanding the participation of LDCs in world trade, global, financial and investment flows,
  • The Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020 was adopted by the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9-13 May 2011. Its priority areas for action were productive capacity; agriculture, food security and rural development; trade; commodities; human and social development; multiple crises and other emerging challenges; mobilizing financial resources for development and capacity-building; and good governance at all levels.

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