Doha Programme of Action (DPOA)
High-level Expert Group Meeting on an Online University or Equivalent Platform for STEM Education for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (OHRLLS)
This event aimed to explore the possibility of establishing an online university or equivalent platform to support online graduate and post-graduate university-level STEM education in LDCs. More information here.
From OHRLLS: Qatar Formalizes $10 Million Contribution to Support Least Developed Countries
10 February 2025. News item here.
First Asia-Pacific Biennial Review of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (ESCAP)
4-5 December 2024. Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Least Developed Countries 2024: Implementing the Doha Programme of Actions and its Deliverables to Accelerate the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
26 September 2024. 10:00am-1:00pm
OHRLLS: Workshop on Mainstreaming and Monitoring the Implementation of the Doha Programme of Action for the LDCs (DPoA)
24-26 July 2024.
"OHRLLS has developed the Guidelines for Mainstreaming and Monitoring the Implementation of the DPoA. These guidelines offer practical, step-by-step directives and tools to assist governments and other national players in the LDCs in incorporating the DPoA into the national development plans and establishing robust monitoring mechanisms. The guidelines also serve as a useful reference for the UN Country Teams in the LDCs to provide enhanced support in this regard.
HLPF 2023: African countries, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries Turning the tide, regaining lost ground and embarking on the road to the SDGs
13 July 2023.
LDCs National Focal Points Meeting 2023
11-12 July 2023. The 2023 NFP meeting will aim to take stock of mainstreaming of the DPoA so far, identify challenges as well as additional support needed by building on the lessons from the 2022 meeting and the LDC5 Conference. It will also present concrete tools for monitoring and mainstreaming developed by the regional commissions and other UN agencies and discuss how these can be improved. More information here.
UN gathering in Doha concludes, ushering in new era of solidarity for world’s Least Developed Countries
9 March 2023. UN Press release
Commitments at the Conference include:
UN: No more excuses; Guterres calls for ‘revolution of support’ to aid world’s least developed countries
5 March 2023. "Three years after the world began its epic struggle against COVID-19, the least developed countries (LDCs) – already grappling with severe structural impediments to sustainable development and highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks – have found themselves stranded amid a rising tide of crisis, uncertainty, climate chaos and deep global injustice.