Doha to Host LDC5 in this Month

The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5 ) will be held in Doha, Qatar, from March 5-9.

The Conference aims to accelerate sustainable development in the places where international assistance is needed the most - and to tap the full potential of the Least Developed Countries helping them make progress on the road to prosperity.

LDC5 is also expected to build momentum around the implementation of the Doha Programme Of Action (DPoA), which is an ambitious and forward-looking agenda. 

It calls for a new generation of partnerships to improve LDCs’ capacities for eradicating poverty and leaving no one behind, advancing structural transformation, trade, and regional integration, leveraging science and innovation and building resilience and sustainability.

The DPoA also reiterates a special role for youth and accelerating LDC graduation of 15 countries by 2031, which are in some of the world’s most fragile, conflict, and post-conflict hotspots.

The world's Least Developed Countries are in a race against time to deliver Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to the UN.

The remaining years need to usher in a new global partnership to ensure these 46 countries benefit from social, economic, and environmental development.