United Nations Initiative on Opportunity and Participation

A/RES/50/108View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95j United Nations initiative on opportunity and participation, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1994–1996

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/108	United Nations initiative on opportunity and participation	442	16%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/60	United Nations initiative on opportunity and participation	780	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Budget Contributions Conferences Development Strategies Equal Opportunity Information Dissemination Popular Participation Small and Medium Enterprises Social Development Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the United Nations Panel on Opportunity and Participation;³

³A/50/501, annex. See also A/50/501/Add.1.

Takes note of the Panel's contribution to the completion of an agenda for development and the follow-up arrangements to the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995;

Invites Member States and relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system to consider the insights and the recommendations of the Panel, particularly the sections of its report related to the efforts to be made for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries as an effective measure for promoting opportunity and participation in the context of national development and the economic and social development of all peoples;

Invites the Commission for Sustainable Development, in the overall framework of trade, environment and sustainable development, alleviating poverty and promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development and small-scale fisheries development, to draw upon the work of the Panel;

Invites the Committee for Development Planning, in accordance with its mandate, to take into account the recommendations of the Panel in its work in 1996 in the context of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade;⁴

⁴Resolution 45/199, annex.

Encourages the relevant agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Development Programme and the regional commissions, to increase their efforts to promote opportunity and participation, and to develop those concepts and incorporate them into their strategies and programmes, including regional and national workshops and seminars;

Invites Member States and international organizations to make voluntary contributions to these efforts;

Encourages support for the widest possible dissemination of the report of the Panel to the international community.

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