Transport and Communications Decade in Africa

A/RES/36/177View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69 Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1978–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/179

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/179	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	165	12%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/230	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	645	—
1984	A/RES/38/150	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	—	—
1983	A/RES/37/140	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	1,062	29%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/177	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	1,179	22%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Africa Communications International Decades Transport

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15 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General on the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa; 79 2.

Takes note of the results of the consultative technical meeting on transport and communications for West Africa which was held at Lome from 8 to 11 June 1981, and ot· the report on the organization of three other meetings scheduled to be held in 1982;80 3.

Notes with satisfaction the contribution made by some countries to the implementation of the programme for the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa;

Expresses its disappointment, however, at the overall level of resources mobilized so far, which is far below the level required to finance the subregional programme, and ap~als to do~or_ co1;1nt~ies, the funding agencies and the vanous financial mstttuhons to increase their financial support to the regional and subregional projects for the Decade;

Also ~otes wit~ s_atisfaction the measures taken by . the ~on?m1c Comm1ss1?n for Africa with respect to the organ1zat1on and scheduling of the three other consultative technical meetings, to be held at Ouagadougou from 20 to 23 January 1982, at Yaounde from 15 to 18 March 1982 and at Abidjan from 3 to 5 May 1982;

Reiterates its appeal to States members of the Eco- ~omi~ Commission for Africa to give the highest priority m ~elf development plans to transport and communications oroJects;

76 See A/34/552, annex I.

77 See EJCN. 14/8 I 2/Rev. I.

78 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. /98/. Supplement No. 14 (E/1981/54), chap. IV. 79 A/36/342. 80 Ibid., sect. V.

Appeals to donor countries and funding agencies to participate constructively and in large numbers in the three consultative technical meetings to be held in I 982 and to consider, together with the Economic Commission for Africa, possible ways of financing those projects for the Decade that are not national in character;

Urges the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to maintain close co-operation with member States, the Organization of African Unity, regional African development organizations, development agencies and interested specialized agencies with a view to the updating, on a regular basis, of the programme for the first phase of the Decade and in order to relate better the projects to national and subregional plans;

Calls upon States members of the Economic Commission for Africa to step up their efforts in connection with the study of the possible sources of finance for the implementation of the projects adopted for the Decade;

Requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to maintain the necessary co-ordination between the sources of finance and the African countries to assure the success of the implementation of the programme for the first phase of the Decade;

Also requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to organize in 1982, with groups of donor countries and the financing institutions and with the participation of Governments, United Nations institutions and African intergovernmental organizations, the three consultative technical meetings scheduled with a view to finding additional financial resources for the implementation of the projects for the Decade;

Further requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to begin as soon as possible, in collaboration with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity, the preparation of the plan of action for the second phase of the Decade;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with the financial means and resources necessary to enable it to organize the three consultative technical meetings scheduled to be held in 1982, inter alia, by using extrabudgetary funds and existing resources to the maximum extent possible, to complete the preparation of the plan of action for the second phase of the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa and to fulfil effecti~ely its role as the lead agency for the Decade, and to submit to the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1982, a progress report on the implementation of the programme for the Decade;

Requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to continue to submit progress reports on the implementation of the programme for the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session a report on the progress achieved in the implementation of the present resolution_

' 4 A/S-11114. annex I ·, See Official Rffords of th,· Iiconormc and Social Co1111cil, /979, .\upplemn11 No 15 (E!l<J79i50). part two. sect I)

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