Financing the SDGs in the Least Developed Countries

On December 15^th, 2016, Mrs. Marie Chantal Uwitonze was speaking at the presentation of the Joint Report on “Financing the SDGs in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Diversifying the Financing Tool-box and Managing Vulnerability” by UN Development Programme (UNDP) and French Development Agency (AFD).

Mrs. Uwitonze called for:

• more ownership of development projects (LDCs have to be in the driving seat),
•  Better use of diaspora expertise and remittances,
• empowerment of local communities and  better opportunities for Jobs creation, mainly for women and youth, – an enabling environment for investments,
•  more capacities building for industrialisation,
•  sustaining the capacities of the LDCs to participate in the International trade etc.