United Nations Support to Least Developed Countries

The present report discusses how UN system entities and other related organizations (hereinafter collectively referred as UN system) organized themselves internally to support the LDCs, and provides an overview of how they have supported the LDCs in the context of the IPoA. The report builds on best practices undertaken by the UN system to support the efforts made by the LDCs in making progress towards the goals of the IPoA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also highlights challenges faced by the UN system on the ground, and action needed to strengthen its support in LDCs, benefiting also from perspectives shared by UN Resident Coordinators on how the UN system could best support the LDCs to advance the SDGs. The report provides elements and recommendations that could strengthen the effectiveness of the UN system in promoting sustainable development progress in the LDCs by highlighting examples of collaborative action that had a positive and transformative impact on the ground. The broad array of activities undertaken by the UN system in the LDCs–comprising all the support measures and best practices shared by organizations, upon which this report is based–have been consolidated by UN-OHRLLS.