HLPF
2024 HLPF Side Event: Empowering Youth for Sustainable Development: Voices from the LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS
9 July 2024.
HLPF 2023: LDCs' Access to Finance, Missing Links and Ways Forward (UN-OHRLLS, Canada, Nepal, Lesotho)
19 July 2023. Despite the trend towards more financing through multilateral platforms, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) still face myriad challenges to accessing sufficient resources to achieve their sustainable development and climate objectives. With support from Canada, UN OHRLLS conducted a study in late 2022/early 2023 that directly engaged with LDC finance and planning ministries to better understand and synthesize their experience in accessing traditional loans and grants, as well as climate finance, to advance national projects and programs.
HLPF side-event by UNCDF: Increasing access to finance for SMEs to drive economic transformation in LDCs
19 July 2023. This event will explore key constraints along with concrete solutions, including reforms that would be necessary in the development finance architecture, to increase flows of public and private finance to SMEs, which must play a key role in helping to accelerate economic transformation in LDCs. More information here.
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.