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Civil Society participation in policy debate is essential for achieving inclusive and sustainable development. At today's well-attended briefing, UNCTAD representatives shared information on the Civil Society Forum and the Women in Development day, events of the upcoming UNCTAD XIII Conference.
A number of United Nations resident coordinators met on 22 February with the United Nations Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity to discuss the best methods for using aid to enhance trade and the productive abilities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
Ahead of the UNCTAD XIII Conference to be held in April 2012, the Secretary-General of UNCTAD highlighted the need for new development pathways that focus on inclusive, development-centred growth.
With the implementation of Module 1 of the Modern Port Management course, Namibia joined the English-speaking network of the Programme. Ghana, Malaysia, Maldives, Indonesia and the United Republic of Tanzania are the other members of the network.
Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, has confirmed her attendance at UNCTAD XIII in Doha.
UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report has over the last three decades often been ahead of the curve in tackling debt and finance issues and predicting impending crises. It has proposed active government action to correct market imbalances.
Countries recognize the need to attract foreign investors as investment policies continue to be generally favourable to foreign investment.
Representatives form 25 IDB member countries learnt about UNCTAD's Entrepreneurship Policy Framework during a workshop conducted by UNCTAD in collaboration with UNIDO and the Islamic Development Bank in Rabat, Morocco in December, 2011.
Ineffective farming techniques and wasteful post-harvest practices have left sub-Saharan Africa as the region most likely to miss the first Millennium Development Goal: eradicating extreme hunger and poverty by 2015, warns the 2010 UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report.
Following informal consultations led by H.E. Ambassador Burhan Gafoor of Singapore, the Trade and Development Board reached agreement on the recommendations presented in the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons.
