Operational Activities for Development

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 59aUnited Nations Development Programme, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1968–2009

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Coordination Within UN System Development Assistance Inter-Agency Cooperation Operational Activities Technical Cooperation

What does this mandate say?

17 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities entitled "Priorities in the future allocation of the resources of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities" ;86 2.

Takes note of the views expressed on this matter at the twenty-second session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme87 and at the sixty-first session of the Economic and Social Council;

Endorses the following general principles to be applied in making future allocations of resources:

To promete population activities proposed in (a) international strategies, particularly the World Population Plan of Action;88 ( b)

To meet the needs of developing countries which have the most urgent need for assistance in the area of population activities in view of their population problems;

To respect the sovereign right of each nation to formulate, promote and implement its own population policies;

To promete the self-reliance of recipient countries;

86 DP/186 and Corr.l.

Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev.1 ), chap. XVI.

Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.XJIL3), chap. l.

To give special attention to meeting the needs (e) of disadvantaged population groups;

Nations Fund for Population Activities to apply the criteria for establishing priorities and the other recommendations set forth in bis report, taking into account the decisions made by the Goveming Council in this regard, in clase co-operation with the specialized agencies and the regional commissions concemed, as appropriate;

Invites Governments to continue and to increase their contributions to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in view of the rapidly increasing needs of developing countries for population assistance;

Recommends that the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, for purposes of continuity of the programme, should normally be appointed for a four-year term;

Urges continuing full collaboration and cooperation on operational matters between the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as between the Executive Director and the executive heads of other organs within the United N ations system in the field of population.

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Operational activities for development

Notes with appreciation that, pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2024 (LXI), the

Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2 (E/5779).

90 Ihid., Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev.1 ).

Session, Second Committee, 30th meeting, paras. 2-13.

Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the executive heads of the agencies and programmes members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Board are taking steps, in a spirit of partnership, to strengthen their mutual co-ordination, both between headquarters and in recipient countries, with a view to improving tbe integration of technical assistance in line witb the above-mentioned consensus;

Requests all organizations of the United Nations system to pursue actively their consultations in order to develop the measures required to strengtben their co-operation and to ensure, tbrougb an efficient United N ations development field network, an integrated and interdisciplinary approacb to operational activities, and looks forward to the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, to be submitted througb tbe Economic and Social Council, on the steps takcn and results achieved;

Invites all countries to help promote a properly co-ordinated approach to operational activities and to assist in the achievement of the dynamic growtb of the activities of the United Nations Development Programme for 1977-1981 based on the need for an equitable sbaring of the total effort required witb regard to the level, timeliness and usability of voluntary contributions to the Programme.

31/172. Assistance to the drought-stricken areas of Ethiopia

Urges the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, the Administrator of tbe United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund and the other United Nations organizations and specialized agencies to continue and intensify their assistance to Ethiopia in its relicf and rebabilitation efforts in their respective areas of competence and to implement promptly tbc relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions 3202 (S-VI) of 1 May 1974 and 3441 (XXX) of 9 December 1975, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 1833 (LVI), 1876 (LVII), 1971 (LIX) and 1986 (LX);

Appeals to all Member States and voluntary agencies and intergovernmental organizations to continue and increase their assistance to Etbiopia;

Invites the Secretary-General, the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second scssion and to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-second session on the implementation of paragraphs 1 and 2 above and of other relevant resolutions of the Assembly and tbe Council.

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Office of the United 1"ations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator92 and of the further information given by the Coordinator in bis statement to the Second Committee on 19November 1976;93 2.

Commends the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and bis staff for the progress made in strcngtbening the capacity of bis Office with a view to providing an efficient world-wide service of mobilizing and co-ordinating disaster rclief, including in particular thc collection and dissemination of information on disaster asscssment, priority nceds and donar assistance;

Recognizes that there will be a need for the maintenance of the activities of the core programme

Snsion. Second Committee, 47th meeting, paras. 1-16.

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