Strengthening and Improving Intergovernmental Programming Exercises for Technical Co-Operation Among Developing Countries

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82dEconomic and technical co-operation among developing countries, published in 1988.

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8 topics

Development Planning Programme Management Programmes of Action Project Evaluation Project Finance Project Implementation Resolutions and Decisions Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

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Endorses the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries at its fifth session42 and Economic and Social Council resolution 1987 /88 of 9 July 1987;

(United Nations publication, Sales No. E. 78.11.A. I I and corrigendum), chap. I.

Supplement No. 39 (A/42/39 and Corr.1), annex l.

Recognizes that intergovernmental programming exercises constitute a useful and effective modality for further promoting technical co-operation among developing countries, and that the further strengthening and improvement of such exercises requires an adequate evaluation of the execution of the agreed projects and activities;

Recognizes a/so that intergovernmental programming exercises for technical co-operation among developing countries should continue to be closely linked with national priorities and planning for national development objectives;

Requests that regional, interregional and global intergovernmental programming exercises, sectoral and/or comprehensive, for technical co-operation among developing countries continue to be held in accordance with the expressed needs of the developing countries and that an adequate evaluation of these exercises be made;

Recommends that the execution of the projects resulting from these exercises be incorporated, whenever possible or appropriate, in the country, regional, interregional and global programmes of the United Nations Development Programme;

Encourages developing countries to support and participate in intergovernmental programming exercises for technical co-operation among developing countries and to take appropriate follow-up action in accordance with their own capacities and requirements;

Emphasizes the importance of the catalytic and promotional role of the United Nations Development Programme in these exercises and its role in the execution of projects resulting from the exercises;

Requests the United Nations development system to support actively, within their respective fields of competence, the implementation of the recommendations of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries and to finance, with available resources, project activities resulting from intergovernmental programming exercises;

Encourages and calls upon the international and regional financing institutions to join in the efforts of the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to assist developing countries in their activities for technical co-operation among developing countries;

Invites developed countries to continue to provide support and financing for projects and activities resulting from these exercises;

Requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session.

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