High-level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries”

MTAVARES1 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Tuesday, 02 December 2025 - 9:00am to Thursday, 04 December 2025 - 6:00pm

2-4 December 2025: High-level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries” | Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

"The meeting will underscore the critical role of innovative and strengthened global partnerships in driving momentum for graduation among Least Developed Countries (LDCs), while enabling them to navigate and adapt to post-graduation challenges. Through this high-level platform, participants will address essential post-graduation support measures, including phased transitions from international support mechanisms and comprehensive strategies for smooth, sustainable progress, ensuring LDCs can maintain their development trajectory and resilience in the long term.

The event will also foster robust peer learning and knowledge exchange, drawing on best practices of both graduating and graduated LDCs. Core objectives are to analyze the impacts of graduation, and outline a strategic guidelines for an incentives-based graduation framework with a particular focus on operationalizing the iGRAD, promoting financial innovation, and strengthening UN coordination, ultimately advancing an action-oriented agenda that delivers sustainable, irreversible graduation and aligns with both the Doha Programme of Action and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda."

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LDC Graduation

Graduation

OHRLLS

Smooth transition

iGRAD

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High-level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries”