Events of 'Alassane DRABO'

Ferdi contributed to this preparatory event for the 5th UN Conference on LDCs (LDC5) with the participation of Patrick Guillaumont (opening remarks: The rationale of the least developed countries category over half a century), Alassane Drabo (LDCs graduation and structural transformation: Are improvements in LDC's structural handicaps a step towards structural transformation?) and Jaime de Melo (The Trade Facilitation Agreement: estimates of reduction in time at customs for the United Nations' vulnerable economies).

Matthieu Boussichas and Alassane Drabo (Ferdi) discussed graduation and differentiation of countries.

Ferdi co-organised three side-events on support measures for smooth transition from the LDC category, on development Finance in LDCs and on the imid-term review of IPoA. Patrick Guillaumont was a speaker at two High-Level Panel.

LDC IV, expert group meeting

Patrick Guillaumont, Président de la Ferdi, était intervenant principal sur la session d'ouverture : Discussion sur la portée de la contribution du "Monitor" à mi-parcours du plan d'action d'Istanbul.

Organized by OECD

After New York, the first LDC IV Monitor report was presented at OECD Headquarters in Paris

Knowledge and innovation for Africa’s transformation

on new partnerships for productive capacity building in the least developed countries (LDC)

The Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with other members of LDC IV Monitor including Ferdi will organize a meeting to review the First Biennal Report of the LDC IV Monitor Consortium.

Second Expert Group Meeting of LDC IV Monitor was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 4-6 February 2013. It is a follow-up of the first EGM.

Event organized by CPD, in collaboration with Ferdi and other members of the LDC IV Monitor Consortium.