This report “Achieving the SDGs in Landlocked Developing Countries through Connectivity and Trade Facilitation” provides insights into the progress made by the LLDCs on improving transit transport connectivity, structural economic transformation, trade facilitation and trade performance, the major achievements and constraints experienced and recommendations to further advance transport connecti
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This fifth report on the State of the LDCs is?a call to action. The report assesses progress in achieving the goals and targets of the Istanbul Programme of Action and then focuses on what has to happen to reduce vulnerability and building resilience in the LDCs.?
SIDS In Numbers: Biodiversity and Oceans (2017) outlines the scope of biodiversity and its immense value across the three geographical regions that form the?SIDS group. This edition also aims to highlight threats to biodiversity and present examples of strategies and initiatives to help to counteract these threats and mitigate damage.
The purpose of this occasional policy papers series, published by the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States?(UN-OHRLLS), is to analyse policy issues relating to the development of the least developed countries (LDCs), stimulate discussions and promote international cooperation.
This report makes a clear case that there is an urgency in accelerating access?to clean, affordable and reliable energy in all of the LDCs, and that this will only?happen if governments, investors, donors and the private sector work together to unlock investment.
The case of Rwanda //
One year after the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), progress towards its?implementation has continued but there is the need to further accelerate actions in order to meet the agreed targets.
The first five years of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) coincided with the last five years of the MDGs. The next five years will be the second half of the implementation of the IPoA and the first five years of the 2030 Agenda, which includes the SDGs.
Progress towards meeting the goals and targets of the IPoA has been mixed. Over the past five years, continued progress by the LDCs towards graduation from the category – which is one of the overarching goals of the IPoA – could be observed, with 10 LDCs currently at some stage in the graduation process. Furthermore important strides were?made towards several goals and targets.
Being at the midpoint of the implementation of the IPoA, the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries?and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS) invited LDCs to review the status of the implementation of the IPoA at the national level and to highlight among others, lessons learned, challenges faced (including new and emerging cha