African Educational Development

A/RES/1832(XVII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

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3 subjects

Africa Educational Development Educational Programmes

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6 operative paragraphs

N ates that the latest estimates by the African Governments of their additional financial needs, for 1962-1963, for the implementation of their educational programmes amount to $435 million, which is $25 million greater than the deficits set forth in resolution 1717 (XVI);

Invites States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies to consider favourably requests by African Governments for technical and financial assistance, including loans, for the implementation of their national programmes of educational development, within the framework of the Addis Ababa plan;

Reiterates the need for African Governments to continue to devote increasing resources to the development of education along the lines of the five-year programme referred to in resolution 1717 (XVI), with due regard to the relation of educational programmes to each country's over-all development programme;

Recommends to the appropriate organs of the United Nations and related agencies and financial institutions, in particular the United :::-Jations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Economic Commission for Africa, further to increase technical and other kinds of assistance in the field of education, including the provision of grants and loans by competent institutions within the limits of their resources;

Addresses a similar appeal to appropriate intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations engaged in educational programmes at the request of interested African Governments ;

Requests the Economic Commission for Africa to co-operate with the United Nations Educational,

lh Transmitted to the members of the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General (A/4903). General A11embly-Seventeenth SeHion

Scientific and Cultural Organization in supplying secretariat and technical services to the permanent conference of ministers of education of Africa.

18 December 1962.

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