United Nations Fund for Population Activities

A/RES/31/170View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 59e United Nations Fund for Population Activities, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1972–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/104

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/104	United Nations Fund for Population Activities	495	—
1977	A/RES/31/22[J]	United Nations Fund for Population Activities	—	—
1977	A/RES/31/170	United Nations Fund for Population Activities	472	—
1976	A/RES/3370(XXX)[G]	United Nations Fund for Population Activities	—	—
1973	A/RES/3019(XXVII)	United Nations Fund for Population Activities	586	17%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Appointment of Officials Funds Population Population Policy Population Programmes Principles Resources Allocation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities entitled "Priorities in the future allocation of the resources of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities" ;86 2.

Takes note of the views expressed on this matter at the twenty-second session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme87 and at the sixty-first session of the Economic and Social Council;

Endorses the following general principles to be applied in making future allocations of resources:

To promete population activities proposed in (a) international strategies, particularly the World Population Plan of Action;88

( b) To meet the needs of developing countries which have the most urgent need for assistance in the area of population activities in view of their population problems;

To respect the sovereign right of each nation to formulate, promote and implement its own population policies;

To promete the self-reliance of recipient countries;

To give special attention to meeting the needs (e) of disadvantaged population groups;

Nations Fund for Population Activities to apply the criteria for establishing priorities and the other recommendations set forth in bis report, taking into account the decisions made by the Goveming Council in this regard, in clase co-operation with the specialized agencies and the regional commissions concemed, as appropriate;

Invites Governments to continue and to increase their contributions to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in view of the rapidly increasing needs of developing countries for population assistance;

Recommends that the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, for purposes of continuity of the programme, should normally be appointed for a four-year term;

Urges continuing full collaboration and cooperation on operational matters between the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as between the Executive Director and the executive heads of other organs within the United N ations system in the field of population.

86 DP/186 and Corr.l.

87 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,

89 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev.1 ), chap.

Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 2 (E/5779). XVI.

90 Ihid., Supplement No. 2A (E/5846/Rev.1 ).

88 Report of the World Population Conference, 1974 (Unitcd n Oflicial Records of the General Asscmbly, Thirty-first Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.XJIL3), chap. l.

Session, Second Committee, 30th meeting, paras. 2-13.

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