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Project Name :
Preparation of the Action Programme LDC III - Samoa
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Country :
Samoa |
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Project Location within Country:
Apia
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Name of Client
The Government of Samoa
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Professional staff provided by your Company:
No. of Staff:
3
No. of Man-months:
5
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Start Date: (Month/Year)
June 2000
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Completion Date: (Month /Year)
December, 2000
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Name of associated firm(s) if any:
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No. of man-months of professional staff provided by
associated firm(s):
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Name of Senior Staff (Project Director/Coordinator:
Team Leader)
involved and function performed:
Co-Team Leader
Research / Policy Analyst
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:
Under the direction of the governmental Focal Point for country level
preparations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, and guidance from the Office of the Special
Coordinator for Least Developed Countries in the UNCTAD Secretariat, the
consultant will prepare a national Programme of Action for the
upcoming decade (2001-2010), in accordance with UNCTAD's relevant
guidelines, for submission to the conference.
In accordance with the participation principles recommended by the
organisers of the Conference, the Consultant, in Collaboration with
the governmental Focal Point, will pursue the exercise in consultation
with relevant government bodies as well as the private sector and civil
society. This will be Facilitated by the established National
Preparatory Committee. The Consultant will also receive assistance
from UNCTAD's regional adviser for the five Least Development Countries of
the Pacific region, who will be operating in close collaboration with the
Forum Secretariat.
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Detailed Description of Actual Services provided by
your Company:
- evaluate the advantages that Samoa has derived from its LDC status
over the 1990s decade, in the light of the Programme of Action for the
LDCs for the 1990s, and of the range of benefits theoretically granted
to the LDCs category;
- formulate a development strategy for the upcoming decade, on the
basis of relevant existing documentation (including UNCTAD's
vulnerability profile of Samoa), bearing in mind the situation of
Samoa with regard to the criteria for identifying the Least Developed
Countries and recently evolving methodology;
- in so far as the development strategy will comprise details of
financial needs relevant to the public sector investment programme,
evaluate these needs to provide a broad estimateof the assistance
required by Samoa for implementing its Programme of Action.
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