LDC Insight #1: COVID-19 recovery and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Why LDCs can’t just ‘build back better’
12 August 2022 / Federica Irene Falomi and Taffere Tesfachew
12 August 2022 / Federica Irene Falomi and Taffere Tesfachew
Technology has become a catalyst in our day-to-day operations, especially in core sectors that drive the economy of each country. New and modified existing technologies form news headlines each day and those technologies include both what things are made of and how things are made. Technologies are mainly aimed to enhance human capabilities or enable humans to perform tasks they could only dream of without it. However, not all countries have access to or are able to deploy new technologies even if they wish to due to their limited resources.
This year's Ministerial Conference of the LDCs will be held on 25-26 November 2021, immediately prior to the?, and will serve as the last global pre-event towards?UN LDC5. The Ministerial Declaration stemming from the Ministerial Conference will mainstream the DPoA into the policy orientations building UNIDO Operational Strategy and Implementation Plan for the LDCs 2022-2031.