The LDCs Program

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The LDCs Program
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• Part of the overall cooperation for development
  program
• Special emphasis on LDCs due to their
  particularly vulnerable nature

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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

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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

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Asia, pacific, Arab and Carribean

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Kiribati
• Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
• Maldives
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands Islands
• Timor-Leste
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Djibouti
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Yemen
• Haiti

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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