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Industrial Development Cooperation

A/RES/49/108No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 88fIndustrial development cooperation, published in 1995.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 1979–2024
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/222
  • 2024A/RES/79/222Industrial development cooperationLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/180Industrial development cooperationCompare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/75/231Industrial development cooperationCompare with previous version
  • 2019A/RES/73/247Industrial development cooperationCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/RES/71/242Industrial development cooperationCompare with previous version

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 topics
AfricaConferencesCoordination Within UN SystemDevelopment AssistanceEconomic DevelopmentEmployment CreationIndustrial CooperationIndustrial DevelopmentIndustrial ProductionIndustrializationLeast Developed CountriesOrganizational ChangePoverty MitigationSocial IntegrationWomen in Development

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Stresses the importance of industrialization as a dynamic instrument of growth that is essential to the rapid economic and social development of developing countries;
2
Emphasizes the importance of industrial development cooperation and a positive investment and business climate, at the international, regional, subregional and national levels, in promoting the expansion, diversification and modernization of productive capacities in developing countries;
3
Reaffirms the essential role of industrialization and entrepreneurship as a means of achieving socially beneficial economic development by eradicating poverty, creating productive employment and facilitating social integration, including the integration of women into the development process;
4
Also reaffirms the central coordinating role played by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the United Nations system in the field of the industrial development of developing countries;
5
Recalls the process of restructuring that is currently under way in the United Nations system, and welcomes in that context the recent reform and restructuring of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, which should enable it, in promoting industrial development, to respond effectively to the needs of the developing countries, in particular the least developed among them and those in Africa, by providing high-quality services that are focused on clearly defined objectives;
6
Invites the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, to contribute, in the context of their programmes and activities, to achieving the aims and action programmes adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and by the International Conference on Population and Development, and calls upon them to contribute to the preparations for the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II);
7
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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