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Role of Qualified National Personnel in the Social and Economic Development of Developing Countries

A/RES/35/80No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62Operational activities for development, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1979–1986
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/40/213
  • 1986A/RES/40/213Role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countriesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1985A/RES/39/219Role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1981A/RES/35/80Role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1979A/RES/33/135Role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countries

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
DevelopmentTraining Programmes

What does this mandate say?

12 operative paragraphs

I.

Takes note of the report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on the role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countries; 1;x 2.
Commends to the attention of the developing countries the above-mentioned report and the recommendations contained in chapters IV and V thereof;
3
Invites the competent organizations of the United Nations system to give due attention to the recommendations contained in chapters IV and V of the report with a view to contributing, within their established procedures and possibilities, to the implementation of the recommendations;
4
Calls upon the developed countries effectively to assist the developing countries, in particular the least developed among them, in their efforts to increase national capacities and facilities for training qualified national personnel and strengthening their role in socioeconomic development 5.
Invites the Governments of developing countries, in accordance with their national development priorities and programmes, to continue to pay special attention, with a view to further improving and expanding their national systems of training qualified personnel, to measures directed towards:
a
Achieving the equality of all members of their society in the field of education, irrespective of race, nationality, sex or religious and social status;
h
Eliminating illiteracy;
c
Increasing the role of government in the field of education;
d
Instituting compulsory education for all children of school age;
e
Achieving the planned development of national educational and training systems;
6
Further invites the recipient Governments and the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to take into account the urgent need for qualified national personnel while identifying intercountry projects in the third programming cycle, I 982- 1986:
7
Requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to make the necessary arrangements, within existing possibilities, for a periodic dissemination of information on the national experience of countries with different socio-economic systems in training qualified national personnel and enhancing their role in national social and economic development;
' 'DPl443.
Further requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to prepare, in consultation with the United Nation_s Development Programme and the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, as well as with the Governments concerned, a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit it to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1982.

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