Report on the seventeenth meeting of the Least Developed Countries Expert. Group. Note by the secretariat.

This document reports on the seventeenth meeting of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG), held in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 14 April 2010. The report includes a summary of the status of preparation and implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) and support given to least developed countries (LDC) Parties for the implementation of NAPAs and their preparation where still pending; progress on monitoring and assessing the LDC work
programme, the NAPA process and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF); outreach efforts and mobilization of other agencies in support of the LDCs; and an approach for the compilation of experiences, best practices, lessons learned and gaps in the NAPA process and the LDC work programme. It also contains a summary of discussions held between the LEG and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and three of its agencies on enhancing efforts for full implementation of NAPAs, and a list of possible issues to be addressed in the new mandate of the LEG. Finally it presents the progress made on implementing priority activities of the LEG work programme for 2010