High-level Meeting on “Forging Ambitious Global Partnerships for Sustainable and Resilient Graduation of Least Developed Countries”
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.
Documents
- Outcome Document
- Concept Note
- Programme
- Media Advisory
- Press release: Global Leaders Convene in Doha to Advance Sustainable and Resilient Graduation for Least Developed Countries (2 December 2025)
- Press release: High-Level Meeting Concludes with Renewed Commitment to Sustainable Graduation of Least Developed Countries (4 December 2025)
- Op-Ed by USG Rabab Fatima: Graduation Must Be a Springboard, Not a Stumbling Block
Sessions
- Opening Plenary
- Session 1: High-level Ministerial Dialogue on strategic pathways for navigating sustainable graduation amid challenging global development landscape and unlocking new opportunities
| - Session 2: Developing integrated and inclusive smooth transition strategies (STS) aligning with national development plans to drive seamless transition, sustained progress, and achieve SDGs
| - Session 3: Mobilizing domestic resources and attracting productive investment, including foreign direct investment, to drive resilient growth and sustained prosperity beyond graduation
- Session 4: Accelerating structural transformation through enhanced productive capacities, value addition, diversification, innovation and digitalization
| - Session 5: Fostering resilient graduation by ensuring LDCs’ smooth integration into global trade, safeguarding development gains, and supporting transformation beyond preference regimes
| - Session 6: Strengthening resilience to multiple and compounding shocks to enable LDCs withstand disruptions and achieve sustainable, inclusive recovery and robust growth post-graduation
| - Session 7: Charting an incentives-based graduation framework to ensure soft landing and achieve resilient, inclusive, and sustainable progress beyond graduation
| - Closing Session









