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