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A Glance at Least Developed Countries’ Institutional Arrangements for SDG Implementation at the National Level, 2015-2021

MTAVARES1 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

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Link to an External Document

Author:

Cecilia Markmann

Document Summary:

This paper analyzes the development of national institutional arrangements in support of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2015 in the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The analysis is based on a set of indicators of institutional “milestones” in relation to SDG implementation, developed in the World Public Sector Report 2021. The results highlight commonalities as well as difference between institutional developments in LDCs and in a sample of countries at all levels of development analyzed in the World Public Sector Report. Similarities include the rapid and almost universal creation of high-level coordination mechanisms for SDG implementation and publication of at least one voluntary national review report. Differences include the lower level of engagement of civil society in SDG follow-up and review in LDCs, and the low number of LDCs having created government-managed central SDG hubs with information that goes beyond SDG indicators. On average, the achievement of specific milestones has been slower in LDCs than in other countries. The review also revealed that information related to public strategy and policy documents in LDCs is often hard to find on the web, which raises questions about awareness and engagement of all stakeholders around SDGs in those national contexts.

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UNDESA

Institutions

SDGs

Civil society

Public administration

Publication Date:

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

UNDESA

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Human rights, governance, institutions, conflict

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Articles, policy briefs, working papers, op-eds, project reports, blogs

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2022

The least developed countries need to strengthen and broaden State capacity to operationalize policy space and achieve development goals - UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 95

MTAVARES1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

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Link to an External Document

Author:

UNCTAD

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State capacity – the ability to formulate public policies and accomplish policy goals – has been a crucial element of all successful development experiences. State capacity in the least developed countries has been continuously eroded since the 1980s, especially due to external economic and political pressures to undertake damaging austerity measures and to the negative impacts of some ways of delivering official development assistance. In the 50 years of the least developed country category, levels of development in most of the least developed countries have fallen behind those in other developing countries. Reversing the erosion of State capacity and achieving sustainable development will require conscious and intentional support from the international community for the efforts of the least developed countries to strengthen and deepen State capacity.

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UNCTAD

State capacity

Institutions

Publication Date:

Wednesday, 24 February 2021

UNCTAD

Document Topic/Theme:

Human rights, governance, institutions, conflict

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UN and WTO reports and publications

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2021

Right to Development: Report of the Secretary-General and the 51�Թ� High Commissioner for Human Rights

MTAVARES1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:25:00 +0000

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A/HRC/45/21

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Link to UN Official Document (ODS)

Author:

Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights

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The present report contains an overview of the activities of the Office of the 51�Թ� High Commissioner for Human Rights on the promotion and realization of the right to development undertaken between June 2019 and May 2020. The report also contains an analysis of the implementation of the right to development in least developed countries, taking into account existing challenges, including in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and recommendations on how to overcome them. It is written as a contribution to the Fifth 51�Թ� Conference on the Least Developed Countries, to be held in Doha in 2021. The report complements the report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the right to development submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-second session (A/HRC/42/29).

Publication Date:

Thursday, 23 July 2020

51�Թ�

Document Topic/Theme:

Human rights, governance, institutions, conflict

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2020

Conflict and the identification of the Least Developed Countries: theoretical and statistical considerations (CDP Background Paper No. 13)

MTAVARES1 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:25:00 +0000

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Link to an External Document

Author:

Ana Luiza Cortez, Namsuk Kim

Document Summary:

This paper reviews conflict as one of potential factors that could be incorporated in the identification of least developed countries (LDCs). It is not clear whether conflict can be considered as a structurally predetermined handicap as those identified in LDC criteria. More importantly, even if countries may be caught in a conflict trap, adding conflict indicators to the LDC criteria does not provide additional insights to enhance our understanding of the category. And adding conflict indicators is unlikely to introduce changes in country classification. Many of the factors associated with conflict are already incorporated in the indicators used to identify LDCs, and, therefore, the inclusion of an explicit conflict indicator - to capture the risk of falling into conflict given conflict in the past - in the LDC criteria would not affect the composition list of LDCs.

Publication Date:

Friday, 10 February 2012

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat

Document Topic/Theme:

Human rights, governance, institutions, conflict

LDC data, criteria, CDP triennial reviews and procedures

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Articles, policy briefs, working papers, op-eds, project reports, blogs

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2012