The twelfth ministerial conference of UNCTADUNCTAD XII will be held in Accra, Ghana, 20-25 April 2008. Meeting every four years to set the organization's mandate and work priorities, Ministerial conferences are UNCTAD's highest decision-making body. UNCTAD Ministerial conferences also serve an important political function: allowing intergovernmental consensus building regarding the state of the world economy and development policies. UNCTAD's 192 member countries have chosen the following topics as the focus of the organization's quadrennial conference:
Addressing the opportunities and challenges of globalization for development
| | Sub-themes: | - Enhancing coherence at all levels for sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in global policy making, including the contribution of regional approaches.
- Key trade and development issues and the new realities in the geography of the world economy.
- Enhancing the enabling environment at all levels to strengthen productive capacity, trade and investment: mobilizing resources and harnessing knowledge for development.
- Strengthening UNCTAD; enhancing its development role, impact, and institutional effectiveness.
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