HLPF: African countries, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries - Ensuring equal access to vaccines and resources in the poorest countries
As reducing global inequalities remains a prerequisite to build a better world post-COVID-19, development partners and the United Nations must boost cooperation with African countries, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries to ensure access to the resources these countries need for COVID-19 response and recovery plans. This includes ensuring equal access to vaccines, for all countries and populations. It also calls for increased targeted support to the implementation of national strategies to achieve the SDGs and mobilization of adequate financial resources.
This session will address a number of priority areas defined by these countries as essential to ensure economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Those include food security, access to the vaccine, effective fiscal and debt management, financing for development, capacity building, trade, access to digital technologies, investment in green economy initiatives, sustainable industry and infrastructure, and the mobilization of domestic resources for climate resilience and sustainable food systems. In doing so, measures that prioritize the needs of women and those of other disadvantaged social groups will be considered to ensure concrete benefits to the population, while leaving no one behind.