Report of the Committee for Development Policy on Its 27th Session

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A document of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19a Sustainable development, published in 2025.

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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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(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited
Subprogramme 6	Economic analysis and policy	24
Programme 16	Economic and social development in asia and the pacific	254
Subprogramme 5	Africa, least developed countries and special programmes	3

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(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
Subprogramme 6	Economic analysis and policy	24	—
Programme 16	Economic and social development in asia and the pacific	254	—
Subprogramme 5	Africa, least developed countries and special programmes	3	—

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Graduation Least Developed Countries

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Welcomes the work of the Committee for Development Policy, and takes note of the report of the Committee on its twenty-seventh session and the recommendations therein;³

³Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2025, Supplement No. 13 (E/2025/33).

Requests the Committee, at its twenty-eighth session, to examine and make recommendations on the annual theme of the 2026 session of the Council;

Also requests the Committee to continue to monitor the development progress of countries graduating and graduated from the category of the 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 of countries graduating and graduated from the least developed country category in line with paragraph 284 of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries⁴ to make it responsive to emerging crises and to better link monitoring to specific support;

⁴General Assembly resolution 76/258, annex.

Takes note of the review by the Committee of the structure and functioning of the enhanced monitoring mechanism to further improve its effectiveness, and calls upon the Committee to consider, in the monitoring of graduating and graduated countries, the availability of reliable and timely data and critical global challenges, including (a) significant reduction in official development assistance; (b) limited capitalization of multilateral development banks, affecting financing for the Sustainable Development Goals and climate adaptation; and (c) stagnation in global trade amid increasing restrictions;

Requests the Committee to continue to improve and customize the mechanism within existing resources, 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 and, where appropriate, increase their effectiveness, 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;

Reaffirms the importance for development and trading partners and the United Nations system to support graduating countries with concrete measures to facilitate a smooth transition, including in graduation impact assessments and in the development of smooth transition strategies and development strategies beyond graduation;

Calls upon development partners to improve the support available to all least developed countries, particularly those that have not yet reached the graduation threshold but also countries in the process of graduation;

Recognizes that graduating countries require an extended five-year preparatory period to prepare themselves effectively for graduation;

Welcomes the finding of the Committee concerning the benefits of updating the existing General Assembly resolutions on smooth transition, including for the purpose of providing necessary guidance on the process of extending the preparatory period preceding graduation;

Recognizes that graduating and recently graduated countries face major challenges in addressing the social and economic consequences of 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 and the United Nations system to support those countries in reducing disaster risk and building resilience;

Encourages the international community, and welcomes existing initiatives, to provide targeted support for the least developed countries, as well as recently graduated countries, for the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action and for responding to the multiple global crises, inter alia, of food, energy and finance, building resilience to possible future pandemics and expanding productive capacities, including for quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, while ensuring the sustainability of external debt;

Recalls the Doha Programme of Action, and in this regard calls upon the development partners to continue to provide, as appropriate, special climate change-related finance and technological support to graduated countries so as to support action towards the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement⁵ and for a period consistent with their vulnerabilities, sustainable development needs and other national circumstances and emerging challenges;

⁵Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.

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 the United Nations system and development partners to enhance, where appropriate, graduation-specific support, including (a) mobilize United Nations crisis management expertise for external shocks affecting graduation; (b) organize round-table discussions with development and trading partners, including South-South cooperation providers; (c) strengthen capacity-building initiatives for the enhanced monitoring mechanism through United Nations-wide efforts; and (d) operationalize the Sustainable Graduation Support Facility (iGRAD) under the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, and recognizes the need for integrating graduation discussions into Council forums and General Assembly meetings;

Encourages the Chair and, as necessary, other members of the Committee to continue the interaction between the Council and the Committee, 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-eighth session, in 2026, within existing resources.

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