United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development

A/RES/36/183View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1982–1987

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/183

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/183	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	365	20%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/194	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	527	14%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/183	United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development	1,428	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Science and Technology Financing

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

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Decides to establish, in accordance with the Vienna Programme of Action on Science and Technology for Development and General Assembly resolution 34/218, longterm arrangements for the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development, which will become operative on 1 January 1982; 2.

Decides that the guiding principles of the Financing System shall be as follows:

The Financing System shall, at the request of Governments, finance a broad range of activities intended to strengthen the endogenous scientific and technological capacities of developing countries. Adequate resources should be allocated to the various activities identified in the Vienna Programme of Action, including national, subregional, regional, interregional and international activities. Particular attention should be paid to the implementation of different types of projects and programmes of direct relevance to developing countries. Those activities should be complementary to bilateral and multilateral programmes for science and technology and supportive of the national efforts of developing countries. Due attention should be given to effective co-ordination of activities of the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in science and technology for development. The operational plan for the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action, due to be completed by concrete and specific action proposals by the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development at its fourth session, including the areas of concentration as adopted by the Committee at its third session, will constitute the gP:neral framework for the activities of the Financing System.

In determining the nature and level of the resources of the Financing System, the following considerations should be taken into account:

Asymmetry of the technological capacity between developed and developing countries;

Need for predictability and continuous flow of financial resources;

Need for substantial resources in addition to those that currently exist within the United Nations system;

Need for untied external resources for the scientific and technological development of the developing countries.

The Financing System shall be a vehicle for the mobilization, co-ordination, channelling and disbursement of financial resources. The Financing System should be organized on a voluntary and universal basis, open to the participation of all States as full members. The resources of the Financing System will be constituted by contributions from States and through financial arrangements which the Financing System may enter into with international, regional and other public and private financial institutions. All member States should contribute to the Financing System in a manner consistent with their capacities. All member States should participate in the direction of the Financing System.

The Financing System should be endowed with an amount of resources to be agreed upon and contributed by participating countries in order to provide a stable base for its operations and should have the flexibility needed to attract resources from various sources.

In determining the forms of operation of the Financing System the experience gained in the operation of the United Nations Interim Fund for Science and Technology for Development should be taken into account;

Takes note with great interest of the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on the United Nations Financinfi System for Science and Technology for Development 07 and, in particular, notes that, in accordance with the criteria set forth in section VI, paragraph 3, of General Assembly resolution 34/218, the core resources of the Financing System should amount to $200 million per annum for the period 1983- I 985;

Decides that the institutional arrangements should be

determined, inter alia, in the light of the magnitude of the financial resources and the nature of operations of the Financing System;

Further decides that those institutional arrangements shall be agreed during the transitional year, 1982, in accordance with the relevant provisions of section II of the present resolution;

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Decides that the year 1982 shall be considered the transitional period of the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development;

Requests the Secretary-General to convene a Pledging Conference for the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development in the first quarter of 1982 to receive pledges for the transitional year and, in that context, urges all States to make generous contributions, bearing in mind the recommendations in that regard of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development;

Decides that, without prejudice to the final agreement on the long-term institutional and financial arrangements for the Financing System, the general operational provisions of the United Nations Interim Fund for Science and Technology for Development, including its resources, organization and management, as well as the procedures set forth in the annex to General Assembly resolution 34/218, will apply and be transferred to the Financing System during the transitional period;

Decides that an Ad Hoe Intergovernmental Group on the United Nations Financing System for Science and Technology for Development, open to the participation of all States, should hold two sessions, the first, lasting one week, from l to 5 March 1982, and the second, lasting two weeks, from 12 to 23 April 1982, and further decides that the time before and between those sessions should be fully utilized for consultations in order to ensure the successful conclusion of the work of the Group;

Urges Governments to ensure that representation at those two sessions shall be at a high level and include experts in the field of finance;

Requests the Ad Hoe Intergovernmental Group to prepare its recommendations on the institutional, organizational and financial arrangements for the Financing System and to submit them to the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development at its fourth session;

Requests the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development to submit its recommendations, through the Economic and Social Council, consideration and decision.

103 See also sect. VIII. resolution 36/ I 84.

104 Report of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, Vienna, 20-31 August 1979 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.1.21 and conigenda), chap. VII.

10' See resolution 34/218, sect. VI. paras. 8 and 9.

106 Official Records of the Generu/ Assembly. Thirt_v-sixth Session, Supplement No. 37 (A/36/37), part three. sect. IV.A

'"" See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.

Rome, 12-20 July 1979 (WCARRDIREP). part one; transmitted to the members of the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General 107 See A/CN.11121. part one.

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