Co-operation between the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization — A/RES/2953(XXVII) | UN Mandate Registry
Co-Operation Between the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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Endorses the decisions taken on the basis of the recom11;endations of the Ad Hoe' Committee, by the Industnal Development Board at its sixth session, as expressed in its resolution 34 (VI) of 2 June 1972, 14 and by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme at its fourteenth session;
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Reaffirms the central role of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in co-ordinating the activities of the United Nations system in 1he field of industrial development and welcomes the readiness of the United Nations Development Programme to assist t~e United Nations Industrial Development Organiza- 110n fu_lly !n implc~1cnting its co-ordinating role by consultmg 1t on projects in the field of industry;
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Reaffirms further the importance of the programme of Special Industrial Services and the need to maintain its separate identity as a programme specifically devoted to serving most effectively short-term, urgent and unforeseen requirements in the field of industry;
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Approves the guidelines for the operation of the programme of Special Industrial Services proposed by the Industrial Development Board in its resolution 35
(VI) and endorsed by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme at its fourteenth session, as follows:
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The programme of Special Industrial Services is established to meet special needs in the field of industry, as desoribed in the report of the Secretary-General of 23 October 1965,15 especially paragraph 10; the provisions contained in that report will be interpreted flexibly from time to time by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in order to take account of the changing needs of the industrial sector in the developing countries;
( b) In the operations of the programme of Special Industrial Services, full consideration will be given to
11 See Official Records of the General Assem!,/y Twentysevlf,nth S~ssion, Supplement No. 16 (A/8716), ann~x JI.
1- Official Records of the Economic and Social Council Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 2A (E/5185/Rev.1)'. para. 199.
i:i Resolution 2626 (XXV).
14 See Official Records of the General Assembly Twenty. seventh_ Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/8716), an~ex IT. · 111 Ibid., Twentieth Session, Annexes, agenda item 40, document A/6070/Rev.t.
the central responsibilities of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for co-ordinating action in the field of industry, as entrusted to it by the General Assembly;
( c) Requests for Special Industrial Services project approvals will be forwarded simultaneously by the resident representatives of the United Nations Development Programme to the headquarters of the Programme and to the headquarters of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization;
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Most projects, including plans for their implementation and level of financing, will be approved jointly by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; in the remaining small number of cases, especially when another agency is proposed as an executing agency, the system of joint approval of the Special Industrial Services projects will be followed with appropriate flexibility by agreement between the Administrator and the Executive Director;
( e) The executing agency will be authorized to commence project operations upon the issuance of financial authorization by the Administrator;
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The programme of Special Industrial Services will be financed on a continuing basis from the resources of the United Nations Development Programme; the level of maximum annual expenditures will be fixed from time to time by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, taking into account current programme requirements as well as desirable growth in the light of demonstrated needs;
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The Administrator and the Executive Director will report regularly to thdr respective governing bodies on the activities carried out under the programme;
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The Administrator and the Executive Director will jointly establish detailed working arrangements and procedures designed to give effect to the principles herein established;
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Welcomes the system of consultation machinery and periodic meetings between the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization referred to in paragraphs 20 to 24 of the report of the Ad Hoe Committee on Cooperation between the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization;16
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Invitesthe Industrial Development Board and the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to take the necessary measures on the basis of the progress reports and consultations' by the Administrator and the Executive Director, as provided in paragraph 22 of the ,report of the Ad Hoe Committee on Co-operation between the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, to ensure the most harmonious and effective co-operation in their common objectives of assisting the developing countries in their industrialization;
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Stresses the need to strengthen the links of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization with the developing countries through the programme of industrial field advisers, whose increasing importance for the development of operational programmes has been fully recognized, particularly in connexion with
16 A/8646. the formulation and implementation of the long-term country programmes and the development of special measures of assistance to the least developed among the developing countries, as envisaged in Indust,rial Development Board resolution 31 (VI) of 2 June 1972;17
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Urgesthe Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to provide at its next session additional financing necessary to increase the number of industrial field advisers of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization serving the developing countries, in order to achieve in 1973 the level envisaged by the Goveming Council at its thirteenth session. 18
