Report of the Committee for Development Policy on Its 21st Session

E/RES/2019/8View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18a Sustainable development, published in 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2019–2021

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2021/11

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	E/RES/2021/11	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 23rd session	1,296	45%Compare
2020	E/RES/2020/10	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 22nd session	690	68%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/8	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 21st session	557	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Graduation Least Developed Countries

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its twenty-first session;³

³Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2019, Supplement No. 13 (E/2019/33).

Notes the work carried out by the Committee on (a) empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality; (b) the voluntary national reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;⁴ (c) an update on the progress of the multi-year programme on a comprehensive review of the least developed country criteria; (d) monitoring of countries that are graduating or have graduated from the list of least developed countries; (e) reviewing the application of the least developed country category by United Nations development system organizations; (f) improved assistance for graduating and graduated least developed countries; and (g) input to the preparations for the next programme of action for least developed countries;

⁴General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Requests the Committee, at its twenty-second session, to examine and make recommendations on the annual theme of the 2020 session of the Economic and Social Council;

Also requests the Committee to monitor the development progress of countries graduating and graduated from the category of least developed countries, in accordance with paragraph 21 of General Assembly resolution 67/221;

Requests the entities of the United Nations development system to provide assistance to graduating countries in the formulation and implementation of their national transition strategies and to consider country-specific support for graduated countries for a fixed period of time and in a predictable manner;

Acknowledges with satisfaction the contributions made by the Committee to the various aspects of the programme of work of the Council, reiterates its invitation for increased interactions between the Council and the Committee, and encourages the Chair and, as necessary, other members of the Committee to continue that practice, as specified in Council resolution 2011/20 of 27 July 2011, within existing resources and as appropriate.

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