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07 April 2022

A new publication, launched the day before adoption of the Doha Programme of Action, explores how increased South-South and triangular cooperation can enhance the delivery of the new compact for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

17 March 2022

United Nations Member States Adopt Bold New Compact to help Least Developed Countries Recover from COVID and Meet Development Goals 

 

28 February 2022

The General Assembly of the United Nations has agreed on new dates for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5).

18 February 2022

Held bi-annually since 2016, the 2022 Small Island Developing States Global Business Network (SIDS-GBN) Forum will be take place on 12 April on the margins of the Our Ocean Conference being hosted by Palau.

20 January 2022

WTO report looks into steps taken to boost LDCs’ participation in international trade 

07 January 2022

 

 

With COVID-19 cases surging around the globe, largely driven by the new Omicron variant, the State of Qatar, in consultation with E. Courtenay Rattray, the Secretary-General of the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), has taken the difficult decision to recommend postponing the conference.

 

21 December 2021

On 21 December 2021 the Preparatory Committee approved the draft Doha Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries and decided to recommend it to the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries for adoption.

05 November 2021

Glasgow, 5 November 2021 - Adapting to climate change requires financing, but for cash-strapped island nations, the money to build resilience is often slow to materialize or out of reach all together.

04 November 2021

4 November 2021, Glasgow - 2020 was another record-setting year for human and economic devastation by natural disasters. 

03 November 2021

As world leaders departed from Glasgow, and much of the world’s media with them, you’d be forgiven for thinking that was the end of COP26. And yet the hard work has only just begun. Because after the “blah, blah, blah” comes the work, work, work.