Quel pacte financier mondial pour les pays pauvres et vulnérables ?
April 04, 2024
FERDI is internationally acknowledged for its expertise on issues relating to country vulnerability and its links with financing.
↪ Enhance research on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), particularly by improving their identification and the effectiveness of measures taken for them.
↪ Advocate for the consideration of the structural handicaps of LDCs in the design of public development policies.
↪ Develop and expand research on vulnerability indicators.
↪ Support the inclusion of vulnerabilities in international development financing (see the International Financing for Development programme).
↪ Advocate for the inseparable consideration of security and economic development issues.
↪ FERDI supports the WAEMU Commission in monitoring the vulnerability of member countries. Under its partnership with the WAEMU Commission, FERDI is proposes vulnerability indices for monitoring WAEMU countries, including relevant local geographical levels. This collaboration will continue until 2025, with the publication of a report and the organisation of workshops.
↪ A vulnerability and resilience observatory is being established, with a website set to launch by the end of 2024.
↪ FERDI is contributing to the development of a list of priority countries for French aid, which will include, in addition to the 45 LDCs, several other particularly vulnerable countries.
↪ The multidimensional vulnerability index was discussed at COP28. FERDI organised a parallel session in partnership with the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA), the Green Overseas programme, the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OEACP), and the UK Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA). The session focused on the role of the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) in mobilizing financing to strengthen resilience.
↪ FERDI participated in the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and continues its work on LDCs.
↪ FERDI is involved in launching the LDC5 Monitor, a coalition of think tanks and institutions from the North and South, providing independent analysis of the Doha agenda’s implementation, especially concerning LDC vulnerabilities. This initiative is supported by Finland and France and approved by UN-OHRLLS. FERDI will specifically monitor the vulnerability of LDCs under this initiative.
↪ The book "Out of the Trap: Supporting the Least Developed Countries" has been reissued with an afterword discussing the impact of recent global crises on LDCs.
