UNDP and the expertise of the Resident Coordinator’s Office, have played a key role in providing practical support to the Government in the accession process. With the support of other ASEAN Member States, Timor-Leste can benefit from and contribute to the ASEAN Economic Community, a $ trillion market and million people. Imminent accession to ASEAN will allow Timor-Leste to focus much more clearly on the products it can export to (and import from) other ASEAN countries in the future. The fourth reason is based on my personal experience seeing the way national authorities are approaching the country’s graduation from least developed country status to lower middle income country status . In and , when this issue was discussed in the Committee for Development Policy, the level of preparation and involvement of the Government of Timor-Leste varied.

Instead, this year, thanks to the support of the

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the broader United Nations system in Timor-Leste, we have seen a much higher level of engagement and preparation by the Timorese authorities for the next time (), when the Committee for Development Policy will debate the development challenges the issue of Argentina WhatsApp Number List Timor-Leste’s exit from least developed country status. The final reason I am confident in the country’s long-term development prospects is the way national authorities and the United Nations country team came together to respond to COVID- and widespread flooding. Faced with this enormous test, our newly launched United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework quickly sprang into action, responding to these challenges with agility, unity and partnerships.

I am proud, for example, of the support

We provided to the Government to rapidly scale up the health response to COVID-, successfully launching the national vaccination program and conducting two rounds of the United Nations Socioeconomic Impact Assessment. COVID- Likewise, by joining forces to support the national emergency response to last year’s floods Turkey Phone Number List we  with humanitarian aid. A woman and a child sit together next to a cabin. Caption: The United Nations country team has supported the Government of Timor-Leste to overcome the problem of malnutrition and stunting, one of the country’s most persistent development challenges.