UN-OHRLLS
High-level Expert Group Meeting on an Online University or Equivalent Platform for STEM Education for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (OHRLLS)
This event aimed to explore the possibility of establishing an online university or equivalent platform to support online graduate and post-graduate university-level STEM education in LDCs. More information here.
LDC Future Forum 2025 - Enhancing Resilience: Innovative Solutions for Strengthening LDCs Resilience against Systemic Shocks
1-3 April 2025, Lusaka, Zambia.
From OHRLLS: Qatar Formalizes $10 Million Contribution to Support Least Developed Countries
10 February 2025. News item here.
From UN News: S?o Tomé and Príncipe takes major development step
16 December 2025.
World News in Brief - S?o Tomé and Príncipe takes major development step.
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October 15 is the deadline of the call for paper presentations at the LDC Future Forum 2025
The Forum will take place on April 1-3 in Lusaka, Zambia.
Information here.
2024 HLPF Side Event: Empowering Youth for Sustainable Development: Voices from the LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS
9 July 2024.?
Work of the LEG in supporting the least developed countries on adaptation
4 December 2023, To discuss the support provided by the LEG, GCF, GEF and other and relevant organizations, and the achievements and lessons learned by the least developed countries in the formulation and implementation of NAPs.
HLPF 2023: LDCs' Access to Finance, Missing Links and Ways Forward (UN-OHRLLS, Canada, Nepal, Lesotho)
19 July 2023. Despite the trend towards more financing through multilateral platforms, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) still face myriad challenges to accessing sufficient resources to achieve their sustainable development and climate objectives. With support from Canada, UN OHRLLS conducted a study in late 2022/early 2023 that directly engaged with LDC finance and planning ministries to better understand and synthesize their experience in accessing traditional loans and grants, as well as climate finance, to advance national projects and programs.
LDCs National Focal Points Meeting 2023
11-12 July 2023. The 2023 NFP meeting will aim to take stock of mainstreaming of the DPoA so far, identify challenges as well as additional support needed by building on the lessons from the 2022 meeting and the LDC5 Conference. It will also present concrete tools for monitoring and mainstreaming developed by the regional commissions and other UN agencies and discuss how these can be improved. More information here.