Capacity Development Assistance for Developing Countries

Featuring H. E. Ambassador Mohan Pieris, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Pieris held the positions of the Chief Justice, Attorney General, Senior Legal Advisor to the Cabinet, Legal Consultant to the Central Bank, and Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka.

EAPD provides the following capacity development assistance under the Peace and Development Fund Rebuilding better and g

Report on the different aspects of LDC graduation and the textile and clothing sector in Asian graduating LDCs

EAPD provides the following capacity development assistance under the Regular Progamme of Technical Cooperation:

EAPD provides the following capacity development assistance under the Development Account 11th tranche in these countries:

EAPD provides the following capacity development assistance to LDCs under the Peace and Development Fund in these countries: Int

EAPD provides the following interdivisional capacity development assistance under the Peace and Development Fund in these countries: 

The Development Research Branch (DRB) organized a seminar on emerging opportunities and challenges for data scientists in using big data. Prof. Xiao-Li Meng of Harvard University, founding editor-in-chief of Harvard Data Science Review, spoke about the trade-offs data scientists face in dealing with the expanding universe of data.

The Development Research Branch, in partnership with Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, hosted a unique Development Policy Seminar featuring the inaugural Ivy three-minute thesis competition in New York. Dubbed as IVY3MT2019, the event provided a platform to 14 PhD candidates from Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University to present their PhD dissertation ideas and key messages in 3 minutes, using only one slide.