8th WIF 2023 Premises, ADNEC in Abu Dhabi ()
Organized by United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) in partnership with UNCTAD and WAIPA
The Doha Programme of Action is an ambitious blueprint for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that has specified key six priority areas: a) investing in people in the least developed countries: eradicating poverty and building capacity to leave no one behind, b) leveraging the power of science, technology and innovation to fight against multidimensional vulnerabiliti
Blended finance is the strategic use of development finance for the mobilization of commercial finance towards sustainable development in developing countries. It holds the potential to unlock significant private sector finance necessary to fill the SDG finance gap, especially if applied in coordination with technical assistance, policy reforms and market development initiatives.
The UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), along with co-sponsors Canada, Nepal, and Lesotho, invite you to attend their side-event on the margins of the High Level Political Forum.
This side event is organized by OHRLLS and LDC Watch.
The USG of UN-OHRLLS delivered keynote remarks, alongside the Chairs of the LDCs, LLDCs and AOSIS and the Global Coordinator of LDC Watch.
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OHRLLS is organizing a Briefing to all Member States on the work of the UN Technology Bank for LDCs.
Nepal has taken over as Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) after five years of stewardship by Malawi.
At a ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on April 5, the Permanent Representative of Malawi, Amb. Agnes Chimbiri-Molande, handed the chairmanship to Amb. Amrit Bahadur Rai of Nepal.
Disasters, climate change and environmental degradation are reshaping both patterns of water availability and human mobility patterns. In 2021 alone, 23.7 million new displacements in the context of disasters were registered across the world. Out of the 23.7 million, 10.1 million happened in the context of floods, 11.5 in the context of storms.
Co-organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
