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1.Agro-ecology, Food Sovereignty and Community Rights

The DPoA committs “to implementing science- and evidence-based and data-driven agricultural practices that increase resilience and sustainable productivity, help to maintain ecosystems, strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, improve food security and reduce malnutrition in all its forms. We decide to improve access to agricultural research and sustainable innovation and practices, including agroecological and other innovative approaches…”

This session will explore this commitment and how to implement it, particularly in light of community rights and the aspiration to achieve food sovereignity.

2.Norms and norm-setting: Human rights, right to development, trade and investment, credit rating agencies…

The DPoA emphasizes Human RIghts and “core international human rights instruments. We recognize that good governance at all levels, strong institutions, democracy, the rule of law, transparency and accountability, and affording individuals access to the health-care services and education, knowledge and skills needed for productive capacity and full participation in decision-making processes are crucial to achieving sustainable development.”

This session will explore how LDCs and their citizens can actually participate in global norm-setting that directly affects them.

3.Financial flows and architecture

The DPoA commits “to promoting policy coherence and coordination of international financial, trade and development institutions, processes and mechanisms, taking into account the diverse and special development needs and challenges of least developed countries.”

Yet, debt crisis are multiplying in the developing world, including LDCs. What can the South do? What should multilateralism do? How can policy coherence be ensured?

4.Gender and Intersectionality

The DPoA reciognizes that “he disproportionate impact of the pandemic on the social and economic situations of women and girls, along with gender-based violence, also pose challenges to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the least developed countries.” It proposes actions “to address barriers to women’s full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in all spheres of society, including in decisionmaking and leadership, in order to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls and further enhance the contribution of women to economic and social development.”

This session will analyse the obstacles to these objectives as well as the gender-related intersections of identities and risks.

5.Future of LDCs: From ODA to Rights & Equity

The DPoA expects “efforts to improve the quality, impact and effectiveness of development cooperation and other international efforts in public finance”. Yet, traditional development cooperation seems to be in crisis. What are the new forms of international solidarity?

6.Planetary Crisis: Towards Ecological Justice (including climate and biodiversity)

The DPoA diagnoses that “climate change is occurring much faster than anticipated, as evidenced by, inter alia, disproportionately high levels of economic losses, damage to critical infrastructure, disruption of basic services in the least developed countries, devastating impacts on oceans and seas, loss of vulnerable ecosystems, land degradation, the retreat of mountain glaciers and the continued rise in global temperatures, thereby threatening the lives of many people, in particular the poorest and people in vulnerable situations. Biodiversity loss, deforestation, water stress and global pollution from chemicals and waste remain major global challenges, while desertification, land degradation and coastal erosion continue to increase.

This session will examine the implications of these interlinked crisis threatening life on the planet.

7.Health for All: Social Determinants and Global Governance (with special emphasis on IPRs and the proposed pandemic treaty)

The DPoA acknowledges that “the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ebola outbreaks, the financial crisis and climate change have demonstrated that we live in a highly globalized and interconnected world, where a crisis or a virus in a small part of a country can spread to the entire world in a short span of time and have devastating impacts globally. COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of holistic, all-hazard and One Health approaches that consider interdependencies among the health of humans, animals and plants and their shared environment.”

How can such approach be implemented is the subject of this session.

8.From Conflict to 探花精选 & Sustainable Development

The LDCs suffer from internal and cross-border conflicts, as well as massive displacements due to conflict and ecological disasters. The DPoA states that “探花精选, security, development, human rights and humanitarian efforts are complementary and need to reinforce one another. Greater cooperation, coherence, coordination and complementarity among development, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action and sustaining peace are fundamental to most efficiently and effectively addressing needs and attaining the Sustainable Development Goals.”

This session will explore these interlinkages in the contemporary global setting.