The United Nations has urged the Least Development Countries (LCDs) which include Malawi to accelerate the pace of implementation of the Istanbul plan of Action (IPOA).<\/p>\n
Chairperson of the UN Development Group and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark was speaking during the comprehensive High Level Midterm Review of the IPoA for LCDs in Antalya, Turkey.<\/p>\n
Clark said though countries have made progress, significant challenges remain.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite important progress, significant challenges remain: fifty one percent of the population of LCDs live in extreme poverty, and eighteen million children of school age are not in school.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite LCDs having 12.5 percent of the World\u2019s population, their exports account for only 1.1 percent of the global total,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n
She said UNDP and sister agencies were fully committed to supporting LDC\u2019s efforts on IPoA\u2019s eight priority areas by 2020.<\/p>\n
According to Clark, during the past five years, UNDP has been supporting LCDs including Malawi in various areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo promote sustainable and pro-poor growth, UNDP\u2019s and UNEP\u2019s poverty Environment Initiative is supporting twelve LDCs, including Malawi, Burkinafasso and Myanmar, she said.<\/p>\n
Clark said at the moment UNDP was undertaking a study which examines the opportunities for LDC graduation in the context of the IPoA implementation, and the risks which might impede graduation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UN Development Group offers support to LCDs to mainstream the Sustainable Development Goals in their plans and budgets, to speed up achievement, and to have joined up policy support from across the UN system,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Malawi Ambassador to Germany Michael Kamphambe Nkhoma, who is also leader of Malawi delegation, described the review meeting as timely.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis meeting is important because it is a follow up on issues which were agreed upon by all members of the United Nations as measures that will help eradicate poverty in the Least Developed countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cA number of issues were discussed and these are the ones being followed up. The issues were supposed to be implemented in the period of ten years, and this year we are midway. The purpose of this meeting is to review what they have done so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the meeting will help Malawi to look at the achievements and to map the way forward on the implementation of the IPoA.<\/p>\n
IPoA which is a 10-year plan was developed to give impetus to economic and social development in some of the world’s most vulnerable States called Least Developed Countries.<\/p>\n
The eight priority areas for the IPoA are Productive Capacity,\u00a0 Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development, Trade, Commodities, Human and Social Development, Multiple Crisis and other Emerging Challenges, Mobilizing Financial Resources for Development and Capacity Building and Good Governance at all Levels.<\/p>\n
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PEOPLE ON THE PICTURE<\/p>\n
CONGOMA ED, Ronald Mtonga- at the back<\/p>\n
Mzimba North Constituency parliamentarian Agnes Makonda NyaLonje<\/p>\n
Deputy Director for planning, in the department of Economic Planning and Development in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning\u00a0 Rodwell Mzonde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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