📅 Saturday September 21 from 1pm to 2:30pm (New York time)
📍Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) located at 801 Second Avenue, Suite 203 - New York.
A simultaneous English/French translation will be available.
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Also online : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83694261112
Opening
↪ H.E. Ifigeneia Kontoleontos
Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the OIF to the United Nations
↪ H.E. Rabab Fatima
UN-USG, High Representative of LDCs, SIDS and Landlocked Countries to the United Nations (OHRLLS)
Panel
↪ Pr. Patrick Guillaumont (moderator)
President of Ferdi
↪ H.E. Sewa Lamsal
Foreign Secretary to Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
↪ Shari Spiegel
Director, Financing for Development Office (FfDO) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations (UN-DESA)
↪ Jay Dharmadhikari
Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations,
↪ Larba Issa Kobyagda
Director General of Economy and Planning at the Ministry of Economy of Burkina Faso
The legitimacy of the LDC category has been strengthened by the recent emphasis on vulnerability as one of the 3 criteria for identifying countries in the category. At a time when an in-depth review of the UN system and the structure of development financing is underway, it is important that the place of the LDCs be clearly defined. This raises a number of questions, which will be examined:
↪ Given its unique and special status, should the group of LDCs be given a place in the governance bodies for international development financing?
↪ What is the actual and potential impact of financial support measures for LDCs?
↪ How can we ensure that a sufficient share of global concessional resources is channeled to the LDCs? Should access to and allocation of these resources be based solely on membership of the category or on the criteria on which it is based (per capita income, low human capital, structural vulnerability)?
↪ Should the way in which the identification criteria are combined be re-examined in order to have a synthetic criterion to give greater clarity and visibility to the category?
