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Focus 2000-2013

Concentrated Assistance focus 2000-2013

Year	Beneficiary countries to concentrated assistance
2013	LDCs Afghanistan* Benin Djibouti Lesotho* Somalia Burkina Faso* Central African Republic* Chad* Liberia Republic of South Sudan* Timor-Leste Myanmar	SIDS Haiti Solomon Islands LLDCs Afghanistan Burkina Faso Chad Kyrgystan Lesotho Republic of South Sudan
2012	LDCs Benin Djibouti Lesotho Somalia Guinea Ethiopia Mali Nepal* Somalia Zambia Republic of South Sudan*	SIDS Haiti Sao Tome and Principe Vanuatu LLDCs Mongolia Nepal Takjikistan Kyrgystan Republic of South Sudan
2011	LDCs Guinea Ethiopia Mali Somalia Zambia Timor Leste Nepal Bangladesh Mauritania Niger Comoros Madagascar Haiti	SIDS Micronesia Kiribati Tuvalu Cape Verde
2010	LDCs Bangladesh Mauritania Niger Comoros Madagascar Haiti Liberia Lao P.D.R Uganda Eritrea Tanzania	SIDS Kiribati Tuvalu Cape Verde
2009	LDCs Afghanistan Burkina Faso Djibouti Eritrea Guinea Bissau Lao PDR Liberia Somalia Tanzania Zambia	SIDS Papua New Guinea Marshall Islands Tonga Nauru
2008	LDCs Afghanistan Burkina Faso Central African Republic Djibouti Ethiopia Eritrea Guinea Bissau Haiti Myanmar Nepal Somalia Tanzania Yemen Zambia	SIDS Papua New Guinea Marshall Islands Tonga Nauru
2007	Cambodia Central African Republic Comoros Eritrea Ethiopia Haiti Kiribati Lesotho Myanmar Nepal	Niger Yemen SIDS Sao Tome and Principe Papua New Guinea Marshall Islands Tonga Nauru
2006	Samoa Solomon Islands Sudan Burundi Chad Madagascar	Cambodia Kiribati Nepal Comoros Lesotho Niger Sierra Leone
2005	Afghanistan Angola Burundi Chad Guinea Madagascar	Mauritania Myanmar Rwanda Samoa Solomon Islands Sudan
2004	Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Burkina Faso Democratic Republic of the Congo Guinea	Lao P.D.R. Mauritania Myanmar Rwanda Somalia Uganda
2003	Bhutan Bangladesh Burkina Faso Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti	Lao P.D.R. Malawi Mali Somalia Uganda Zambia
2002	Bhutan Central African Republic Djibouti Haiti	Kiribati Malawi Mali Zambia
2001	Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Mozambique	Nepal Niger Yemen
2000	Cambodia Chad Comoros	Ethiopia Haiti Sudan Tanzania

A special group of countries referred to in ITU parlance as Countries in Special Need is also receiving assistance to help them recover from years of civil strife, armed conflict or outright war.

* - an LLDC as well