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The LDCs Program

The LDCs Program. Part of the overall cooperation for development program Special emphasis on LDCs due to their particularly vulnerable nature. Least Developed Countries. LDCs group of 24 countries first established in 1971 by UN resolution

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The LDCs Program

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  1. The LDCs Program

  2. Part of the overall cooperation for development program • Special emphasis on LDCs due to their particularly vulnerable nature

  3. Least Developed Countries • LDCs group of 24 countries first established in 1971 by UN resolution • Criteria; income (GNI), human assets (HAI) and economic vulnerability (EVI) • Presently 50 countries classified as LDCs

  4. Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Niger Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia Africa

  5. Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia Kiribati* Lao People’s Democratic Republic Maldives Myanmar Nepal Samoa Solomon Islands Islands* Timor-Leste* Tuvalu* Vanuatu* Djibouti Somalia Sudan Yemen Haiti Asia, pacific, Arab and Carribean

  6. Activities • Sida Training Program • Developing national Chapters of Licensing Manual – Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nepal • Establishing IP Advisory service centres – Tanzania, Cambodia and Ethiopia • High level policy conferences • Representing IP issues vis-à-vis LDCs in UN and other international conferences and policy making bodies

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