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Uganda graduation status

Uganda met the graduation criteria for the first time in 2024.

See the CDP's 2024 report here.

Next step: the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will assess Uganda again in 2027. If it meets the criteria again, Uganda could be recommended for graduation. Graduation would be effective after endorsement of the recommendation by ECOSOC and the General Assembly and a preparatory period.

  • More information on the process here.
  • More information on suggested action to prepare for graduation here.

Uganda LDC Profile (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, Uganda's performance against the LDC criteria)

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2024 Report of the Committee for Development Policy

Report on the 26th session of the Committee for Development Policy (4-8 March 2024) The present report contains the main findings and recommendations of the Committee for Development Policy at its twenty-sixth session.

 LDC graduation and smooth transition 08 May 2024

Inclusive Digital Economy Scorecard (UNCDF)

The Inclusive Digital Economy Scorecard (IDES) is a strategic performance and policy tool that has been developed to support countries in better understanding and monitoring the status of their digital transformation, with a view to helping them make it more inclusive.

 Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation 02 August 2023

Opinion: How to tackle least developed countries' gender gaps in tech use and data, Deanna Ramsay for Global Views/Devex

Yes, the internet now allows — some of — us to digitally crisscross the globe.

 Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation 10 March 2020

Uganda: Value Chain Roadmap for Sunflower

The goal of Uganda’s Value Chain Roadmap for Sunflowers is to set the sector on the course of strategic development by addressing constraints in a comprehensive manner and defining concrete opportunities that can be realized through the specific steps detailed in its Plan of Action (PoA).

 Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation 31 December 2016

Applying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework to the Least Developed Countries: The Case of Uganda (CDP Background Paper No. 32)

This paper aims to draw insights from New Structural Economics by applying its practical policy tool – the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF) – to least developed countries (LDCs) with a special focus on the case of Uganda. The GIFF offers practical development paths for enab

 Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation 30 June 2016

Cost-benefit analysis for identifying institutional capacity building priorities in LDCs: an application to Uganda (CDP Background Paper No. 30)

Institutional constraints prevent the Least Developed Countries from fully utilizing the trade-related International Support Measures provided by development partners.

 Trade 21 April 2016

Building institutional capacity in the use of trade-related international support measures: Nepal - Setting priorities in addressing institutional constraints, findings and recommendations

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has developed a capacity building project on Removing Institutional Constraints in Utilizing Trade-Related International Support Measures (ISMs) for Least Developed Countries

 Trade 30 December 2015

Photo EIF/Deanna Ramsay

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