Experts to review UN LDC IV confce
Friday, 7 September 2012
FE Report
A group of independent global experts of least developed countries (LDCs) are going to meet in Dhaka on a 3-day meeting from today (Friday) to review the progress related to the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) adopted during the UN LDC IV Conference held in May 2011.
The group called LDC IV Monitor is an independent global partnership for monitoring the outcome of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UN LDC IV) for effective implementation of commitments to the LDCs.
The country's leading civil society think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will organise the programme, Executive Director of CPD Dr Mustafizur Rahman Thursday announced at a media briefing at its city office.
Around 35 experts from the LDCs and development partners will attend the program titled "Development Challenges of the Least Developed Countries: Tracking the International Commitments".
"Since the LDC category was created in 1971, the countries meet in a summit once in a 10-year to review their progress and problems and fix agenda for the next 10 years which cannot bring targeted outcome due to such long gap," said Dr Debaprriya Bhattacharya, speaking at the briefing.
"What is the use of reviewing activities after 10 years," we thought, and, "we the civil society think tanks of LDCs have decided to form a forum so that we can pursue the goal through monitoring and assessing the activities," he added.
Dr Debaprriya Bhattacharya said they believe increasing earning index can not bring sustainable development in a country until there is enough improvement in human capital development indices.
He also said as a leader of LDCs, Bangladesh has special duties to perform in achieving goals and reminding partners of their responsibilities.
Dr Debaprriya said the least developed countries are not least developed for their own reason. Developed countries are also responsible for the state of those countries.
"So they must act and come forward to help LDCs"
He said over the last four decades, the number of LDCs has grown to 48. The IPoA set the target to lessen the number of LDCs into half-24 from present 48.
Terming the target ambitious, he said the civil societies have to pursue the world leaders over their commitments to other countries.
The partnership intends to bring out its first biennial report in 2013.
These include: LDCs and global economic situation; benchmarking of IPoA; graduation and smooth transition for LDCs; building productive capacity in the areas of infrastructure and enterprise development; human and social development; trade and related issues; adding value to agricultural commodities; climate change and vulnerabilities; and strategies for raising development finance.
In organising this event, CPD has received support from UNDP Bangladesh, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Think Tank Initiative (TTI), Commonwealth Secretariat and the Embassy of France in Bangladesh.
A group of independent global experts of least developed countries (LDCs) are going to meet in Dhaka on a 3-day meeting from today (Friday) to review the progress related to the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) adopted during the UN LDC IV Conference held in May 2011.
The group called LDC IV Monitor is an independent global partnership for monitoring the outcome of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UN LDC IV) for effective implementation of commitments to the LDCs.
The country's leading civil society think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will organise the programme, Executive Director of CPD Dr Mustafizur Rahman Thursday announced at a media briefing at its city office.
Around 35 experts from the LDCs and development partners will attend the program titled "Development Challenges of the Least Developed Countries: Tracking the International Commitments".
"Since the LDC category was created in 1971, the countries meet in a summit once in a 10-year to review their progress and problems and fix agenda for the next 10 years which cannot bring targeted outcome due to such long gap," said Dr Debaprriya Bhattacharya, speaking at the briefing.
"What is the use of reviewing activities after 10 years," we thought, and, "we the civil society think tanks of LDCs have decided to form a forum so that we can pursue the goal through monitoring and assessing the activities," he added.
Dr Debaprriya Bhattacharya said they believe increasing earning index can not bring sustainable development in a country until there is enough improvement in human capital development indices.
He also said as a leader of LDCs, Bangladesh has special duties to perform in achieving goals and reminding partners of their responsibilities.
Dr Debaprriya said the least developed countries are not least developed for their own reason. Developed countries are also responsible for the state of those countries.
"So they must act and come forward to help LDCs"
He said over the last four decades, the number of LDCs has grown to 48. The IPoA set the target to lessen the number of LDCs into half-24 from present 48.
Terming the target ambitious, he said the civil societies have to pursue the world leaders over their commitments to other countries.
The partnership intends to bring out its first biennial report in 2013.
These include: LDCs and global economic situation; benchmarking of IPoA; graduation and smooth transition for LDCs; building productive capacity in the areas of infrastructure and enterprise development; human and social development; trade and related issues; adding value to agricultural commodities; climate change and vulnerabilities; and strategies for raising development finance.
In organising this event, CPD has received support from UNDP Bangladesh, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Think Tank Initiative (TTI), Commonwealth Secretariat and the Embassy of France in Bangladesh.