Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States - Parliament /ohrlls/tags/parliament en Parliamentary Engagement in the Implementation of the IPoA (2013) /ohrlls/news/parliamentary-engagement-implementation-ipoa-2013 <div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-2177--2" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/ohrlls/file/2177">uganda_arne_hoel_world_bank.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <img class="panopoly-image-original img-responsive" src="/ohrlls/sites/www.un.org.ohrlls/files/styles/panopoly_image_original/public/news_articles/uganda_arne_hoel_world_bank_1.jpg?itok=IKiEixo0" alt="The road construction in Uganda. " title="The road construction in Uganda. " /><div class="field field-name-field-file-image-title-text field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The road construction in Uganda. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-uw-image-copyright field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Copyright:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Arne Hoel / World Bank</div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) adopted at the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries constitutes the most ambitious undertaking of the international community to address the structural vulnerabilities of the LDCs and promote their development. The overarching goal of the IPoA is to enable half of the LDCs to meet the criteria for graduation by 2020.&nbsp;The IPoA includes a strong call to include parliaments in its implementation. Article 16 of the Political Declaration acknowledges the important role of parliaments in developing strategies as well as overseeing their implementation.</p> <p><img alt="" src="/ohrlls/sites/www.un.org.ohrlls/files/download_icon.png" style="width: 85px; height: 85px;" /><a href="/ohrlls/sites/www.un.org.ohrlls/files/ipoa-parliaments-2013.pdf" target="_blank">Download</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-front-page-article field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Front Page Article:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div> Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:10:00 +0000 Anonymous 1547 at /ohrlls