Productive Capacities for the New Decade

Registration 

The event will be held online in English via WebEx.

Please join using the following link: https://bit.ly/2QM5Nxy

Objectives

This event aims to provide a dialogue space to explore innovative strategies to undertake a Productive Capacities Gap Assessment so as to reach a common understanding of its role in the context of a smooth transition strategy for graduation with momentum.

It further helps foster an exchange of views and define modalities to further assist the LDCs by articulating new-generation policies and strategies centered on the fostering of productive capacities and structural economic transformation.

Expected Outcomes

The event will answer the following questions:

• What opportunities are there for LDCs to build back better from COVID-19 in strengthening productive capacity?
• How can LDCs, with the support of development partners, place productive capacities at the centre of their domestic policies and strategies?
• How can the LDC5 conference contribute to expanding productive capacities of LDCs for sustainable development as a key part of the new programme of action?

Speakers

• H.E. Perks Clemency Ligoya, Ambassador of Malawi to the UN in New York and Chair of the LDC Group
• Ms. Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General of UNCTAD
• Mr. Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director of the Enhanced Integrated Framework Executive Secretariat
• Mr. Joshua Setipa, Managing Director, UN Technology Bank for LDCs
• Mr. Taffere Tesfachew, Principal Advisor, Ethiopian Investment Commission and leader of the Committee for Development Policy Sub-Group on LDCs.