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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
Criteria; income (GNI), human assets (HAI) and economic vulnerability (EVI)
Presently 50 countries classified as LDCs
Africa
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
Asia, pacific, Arab and Carribean
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
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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