High-level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries”

The meeting will underscore the critical role of innovative and strengthened global partnerships in driving momentum for graduation among Least Developed Countries (LDCs), while enabling them to navigate and adapt to post-graduation challenges. Through this high-level platform, participants will address essential post-graduation support measures, including phased transitions from international support mechanisms and comprehensive strategies for smooth, sustainable progress, ensuring LDCs can maintain their development trajectory and resilience in the long term.

The event will also foster robust peer learning and knowledge exchange, drawing on best practices of both graduating and graduated LDCs. Core objectives are to analyze the impacts of graduation, and outline a strategic guidelines for an incentives-based graduation framework with a particular focus on operationalizing the iGRAD, promoting financial innovation, and strengthening UN coordination, ultimately advancing an action-oriented agenda that delivers sustainable, irreversible graduation and aligns with both the Doha Programme of Action and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

Documents

• Concept Note
• Programme
• Media Advisory

Sessions

• Opening Plenary
  Speaker List
• Session 1: High-level Ministerial Dialogue on strategic pathways for navigating sustainable graduation amid challenging global development landscape and unlocking new opportunities
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Session 2: Developing integrated and inclusive smooth transition strategies (STS) aligning with national development plans to drive seamless transition, sustained progress, and achieve SDGs
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Session 3: Mobilizing domestic resources and attracting productive investment, including foreign direct investment, to drive resilient growth and sustained prosperity beyond graduation
  Issue Paper
• Session 4: Accelerating structural transformation through enhanced productive capacities, value addition, diversification, innovation and digitalization
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Session 5: Fostering resilient graduation by ensuring LDCs’ smooth integration into global trade, safeguarding development gains, and supporting transformation beyond preference regimes
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Session 6: Strengthening resilience to multiple and compounding shocks to enable LDCs withstand disruptions and achieve sustainable, inclusive recovery and robust growth post-graduation
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Session 7: Charting an incentives-based graduation framework to ensure soft landing and achieve resilient, inclusive, and sustainable progress beyond graduation
  Issue Paper | Speaker List
• Closing Session
  Speaker List