Activities of the United Nations Children's Fund to Expand Basic Services for Children in Developing Countries

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics

Basic Services Child Needs Child Welfare Children

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs

Endorses the approaches to the expansion of basic services for children set forth in the annex to the appeal of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund, entitled "Basic services for children in developing countries",18 which embodies proposals for expanding children's services in the fields of maternal ~nd child health, nutrition, water supply, basic educat1on and supporting services for women, utilizmg the materi~l and human resources available in developing countnes, at costs which developing countries can ultimately afford;

Urges the developed countries and others in a position to do so to provide, through bilateral and multilateral channels and particularly through the United Nations Children's Fund, external assistance, at a Ievel more commensurate with the needs of developing countries, in support of the efforts of developing countries to expand their basic services for children;

l6 O/ficial Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fiftyseventh Session, Supp/ement No. 9 (E/5528), para. 6.

17 /bid., Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5698), para. 17.

18 lbid., annex l.

Invites the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund to consider this matter in depth at its next session and to submit a report, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session.

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