Report of the Committee for Development Policy on Its 24th Session

E/RES/2022/8View PDF

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A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18a Sustainable development, published in 2022.

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18 documents · 2005–2026

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	E/RES/2026/6	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 28th session	—	–
2025	E/RES/2025/2	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 27th session	1,535	–
2024	E/RES/2024/7	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 26th session	1,919	–
2023	E/RES/2023/10	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 25th session	1,638	–
2022	E/RES/2022/8	Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its 24th session	1,168	–

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Covid-19 Graduation Least Developed Countries

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Takes note of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its twenty-fourth session;²

²Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2022, Supplement No. 13 (E/2022/33).

Notes the work carried out by the Committee on (a) the contribution to the annual theme of the Economic and Social Council for 2022, “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”; (b) the review by the Council of its subsidiary bodies; (c) the analysis of the 2021 voluntary national reviews; (d) the monitoring of countries that are graduating or have graduated from the list of least developed countries; (e) the enhanced monitoring mechanism; and (f) additional matters related to the least developed countries;

Requests the Committee, at its twenty-fifth session, to examine and make recommendations on the annual theme of the 2023 session of the 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;

Welcomes the work of the Committee on enhancing the monitoring mechanism to make it more responsive to emerging crises and to link monitoring to specific support, calls upon Member States and relevant United Nations entities to support the efforts of the Committee, and calls upon graduating and recently graduated countries to integrate the monitoring of the implementation of smooth transition strategies into their existing policy monitoring and evaluation frameworks and to establish effective links to the Committee’s enhanced monitoring mechanism;

Calls upon the Committee to continue due consultations with the countries concerned, while conducting the triennial reviews of the list of least developed countries and monitoring the countries that are graduating and have graduated from the list, and requests the Committee to continue to include in these consultations those least developed countries whose graduation may have been deferred;

Recognizes that graduating and recently graduated countries face major challenges in addressing the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and disasters, and the importance of integrating disaster risk reduction into the smooth transition strategies of graduating countries to promote sustainability of development progress, and encourages development and trading partners of graduating and recently graduated countries to support those countries in reducing disaster risk and building resilience;

Emphasizes the urgent need to develop measures of progress on sustainable development that complement or go beyond gross domestic product in order to have a more inclusive approach to international cooperation;

Welcomes the recommendations contained in the report of the Committee for the international community to increase financing from all sources for least developed countries, including recently graduated countries, for the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries,³ particularly for the strengthening of public health systems in preparation for possible future pandemics, for the expansion of productive capacities, including for quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, while ensuring the sustainability of external debt, as well as for building climate resilience, taking into account difficulties of least developed countries and small island developing States in accessing climate financing;

³General Assembly resolution 76/258, annex.

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;

Calls upon Member States and the wider international community to support resource mobilization efforts to operationalize the integrated Sustainable Graduation Support Facility, iGRAD, as a country-led and partnership-based global platform of dedicated capacity development support for graduating and recently graduated countries;

Calls upon United Nations system organizations and Member States to disseminate information on the support measures they extend specifically to the countries in the least developed country category, as well as information on support to countries that are graduating from the category, through the Least Developed Country Portal – International Support Measures for Least Developed Countries;⁴

⁴Available at www.un.org/ldcportal; the information should be submitted to ldcportal@un.org.

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, and calls upon the Committee to continue to ensure a substantive exchange with Member States, including through a dedicated session during its twenty-fifth session in 2023, within existing resources.

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