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United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development

A/RES/41/183No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1982–1987
  • 1987A/RES/41/183United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for DevelopmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1986A/RES/40/194United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for DevelopmentCompare with previous version
  • 1982A/RES/36/183United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Budget ContributionsDissolutionEstablishmentInter-Agency CooperationScience and Technology Financing

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
Decides to terminate the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development as at 31 December 1986 and to transfer its responsibilities and resources to an identifiable facility entitled "United Nations Fund for Science and Technology for Development", to be established as a trust fund within the United Nations Development Programme;
2
Requests the Intergovemmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development to provide policy guidance and priorities for activities of the Fund within the framework ofthe Vienna Programme of Action on Science and Technology for Development;38 3.
Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, when identifying projects to be financed from the Fund, to take into account the policy guidance and priorities recommended by the Committee and to report to the Committee on their application;
4
Requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to establish close working relationships between the Fund and the Centre for Science and Technology for Development on programmatic and substantive matters, and requests the Secretary-General to inform the Committee at its ninth session about the arrangements made;
5
Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to inform the Committee at its ninth session on the arrangements made for the Fund;
6
Invites Governments and the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to give greater emphasis to science and technology for development;
7
Urges all Governments and the international community as a whole to provide the Fund with adequate financia! resources to enable it to carry out its functions.

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