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Planned joint initiatives will improve the ability of countries in the Pacific to better tackle challenges such as climate change and pandemics such as COVID-19.

Réunis à Genève, des représentants de sept pays francophones se forment à un nouveau type de négociations.

Increased cooperation expected in areas addressing migration and development, such as investment, enterprise development and entrepreneurship.

Cluster brings the UN system together to improve its efficiency, coherence and impact on trade and development matters at the country level.

Heads of UNCTAD, the International Trade Centre and the World Trade Organization commit to further develop an online portal giving smaller businesses the data they need to trade better.

Securities regulators covering one-third of global market capitalization make a new push for sustainable finance.

UNCTAD and the Commonwealth Secretariat today announced that they had signed a cooperation agreement that will see them work hand in hand to boost sustainable growth in developing countries, with a strong focus on island nations.

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and UNCTAD have announced a commitment to strengthen their joint work on policy research and analysis; technical cooperation; and capacity building. Working more closely together, they aim to improve further their support for the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) from the earliest stages of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNCTAD Deputy-Secretary-General, Joakim Reiter, and ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy, Deborah Greenfield, opened an information session for Geneva-based delegates on the establishment of a global Multi-Donor Trust Fund to support the UN Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and UNCTAD have pledged to strengthen their work maximizing the benefits of international trade and investment for economic and social development, and laid out plans for new collaborative efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015.