Critical Situation of the Financial Resources of the United Nations Development Programme

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1983.

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5 subjects

Budget Contributions Development Assistance Development Planning Financing Pledging Conferences

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22 operative paragraphs

Invites the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the President ofthe World Bank to examine the possibilities of further co-operation between the Programme and the World Bank regarding utilization of facilities available to the two organizations, and requests the Administrator to report thereon to the Goveming Council of the United Nations Development Programme;

Reaffirms the exclusive responsibility of the Govemrnent of the recipient country regarding formulation of its national development plan or priorities and objectives, as set out in the consensus set forth in the annex to General Assembly resolution 2688 (XXV) of 11 December 1970, and emphasizes that the integration of the operational activities of the United Nations system with national programmes would enhance the impact and relevance of these activities;

Requests the Director-General for Development and Intemational Economic Co-operation to include in his 1983 comprehensive policy review an examination of the extent and implications of the growing practice of contributions being provided to organizations with conditions attached to their use;

Takes note ofthe measures being pursued to reduce costs and to improve efficiency described in the report of the Director-General for Development and Intemational Econornic Co-operation, and urges the Secretary-General and the executive heads of organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to seek to minimize administrative and other support costs without affecting the field programmes and the network of United Nations Development Programme offices in developing countries and bearing in mind the need to maintain an appropriate leve) of support functions, with a view to increasing the proportion of resources available to improve the programme delivery to developing countries;

Requests the organs and bodies of the United Nations system receiving resources of an extrabudgetary nature, such as support cost payments, to include information un these resources and their utilization in the reports to their goveming bodies, and invites the goveming bodies of the organizations of the United Nations system receiving support cost payments from Govemments and voluntary funds to examine information thereon;

Requests the Director-General for Development and Intemational Economic Co-operation to report on the implementation of paragraphs 18 and 19 of the present resolution and to include in bis comprehensive policy overview a comparative analysis of the relationship between programme delivery and administrative costs pertaining to operational activities for development executed by organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system;

Urges ali organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in the light of the recommendations contained in section III of the report of the Director-General for Development and Intemational Economic Co-operation, to take the necessary steps to ensure the harmonization of administrative, financia), personnel, planning and procurement procedures, and requests the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination to report, in its annual overview report of 1984, on specific action taken;

Reiterates the importance of co-ordination of multilateral development assistance at the field leve! and requests the Director-General for Development and Intemational Economic Co-operation to pay particular attention, in the comprehensive policy review of operational activities of 1983, to the need for improved coherence of action and effective integration at the country leve) in accordance with section V of the annex to resolution 32/197 and paragraph 11 of resolution 35/81, including a report on measures taken to date in this regard, together with his recommendations thereon, with specific reference to the role of resident co-ordinators in the co-ordination of operational activities of the United Nations system;

Invites the Administrative Committee on Coordination to report to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1983 and to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session on the outcome of the review of the arrangements for the exercise of the functions of resident co-ordinator in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 2688 (XXV) of 11 December 1970, 32/197 of 20 December 1977 and 34/213 of 19 December 1979, and also requests the Committee to develop, within ayear, the register on development activities in conformity with Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/71 of l O November 1982.

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Critical situation of the financial resources of the United Nations Development Programme

Takes note of the report of the Goveming Council of the United Nations Development Programme for the year 1982 and the decisions contained therein; 195 Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/53 of 29 July 1982, in which the Council, inter alia, took note of decision 82/5 of 18 June 1982 of the Goveming Council ofthe United Nations Development Programme, 195 by which the Goveming Council reaffirmed its decisions 80/30 of 26 June 1980196 and 81/16 of 27 June 1981, 197 including, in particular, those provisions relating to the indicative planning figures, the assumed overall average annual rate of growth of voluntary contributions and the leve! of resources envisaged for the third programming cycle, 1982-1986, for the purposes of forward planning, and welcomes the establishment of an Intersessional Committee of the Whole to study options and recommendations for the longer-term financing of the Programme and for strengthening the effectiveness ofthe work ofthe Governing Council;

Notes with deep concern the result ofthe 1982 United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities and the serious consequences it would have on the proposed programme delivery for the third programming cycle, 1982- 1986, of the United Nations Development Programme;

Expresses its appreciation to ali Governments, of both developed and developing countries, which, at the 1982 Pledging Conference, announced contributions or their intention to contribute to the United Nations Development Programme for 1983 in amounts approaching, equalling or exceeding an average annual increase of 14 per cent in their contributions, and to those Governments which have consistently maintained their contributions at a high leve!;

Urges ali other Governments, especially those whose 5. voluntary contributions may not reflect their capacity to contribute, to renew their efforts to provide the United Nations Development Programme with the resources necessary to establish a sound financial basis for the implementation of its planned activities for the third programming cycle, 1982-1986, which, for the purpose of forward planning, would assume an overall average annual growth of resources of at least 14 per cent;

Expresses its appreciation to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme for his tireless efforts to obtain the necessary level of resources envisaged for the third programming cycle, 1982-1986, in order to secure the financia! viability of the Programme and to improve further its quality, efficiency and effectiveness, and encourages the Administrator to continue those efforts, taking into account, inter alia, the need to restrain administrative expenditures in order to maximize programme delivery in accordance with paragraph 4 of Goveming Council decision 81/16;

Expresses its hope that the Intersessional Committee ofthe Whole ofthe Goveming Council ofthe United Nations Development Programme, in accordance with its mandate as set out in decision 82/5, will succeed in identifying measures, in accordance with the principies and objectives as reflected in the consensus, as set forth in the annex to General Assembly resolution 2688 (XXV), that would enable the implementation of the Programme's planned activities for the third programming cycle, 1982-1986, and beyond.

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Role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countries

Takes note of the report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on the role of qualified national personnel in the social and economic development of developing countries; 199 2.

Requests the Secretary-General and the Administrator of the U nited Nations Development Programme to ensure and monitor further implementation of General Assembly resolution 35/80;

Further requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive heads of the organizations concemed, with a view to facilitating the exchange of information and experience, to ensure, within available resources, the preparation and distribution among Member States of periodic analytical surveys of national reports on the experience of ali countries in the field of human resources development and intemational co-operation in training qualified personnel of developing countries;

Invites Govemments of Member States to make available to the Secretariat, on a regular basis, information on their experience in establishing and developing their national systems of training of qualified personnel and on the implementation of the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Invites developed countries and relevant organizations of the United Nations system to direct their assistance to developing countries in the field of education and training of qualified personnel towards, inter alia:

Establishing and developing national systems of education and training of personnel as an integral part of the social and economic development programmes of developing countries;

Promoting the most effective use of qualified national personnel in national development;

Implementing the provisions of General Assembly resolution 35/80, especially paragraph 5 thereof;

Requests the Secretary-General to consult with Member States and relevant organizations of the United Nations system on possible elements of general guidelines on principies, objectives and structures of education and training of personnel of developing countries, taking into account the need for further development of their national systems, and to report on his findings to the General Assembly at its thirty-ninth session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a progress report on the implementation ofthe present resolution, including the proposed elements of the above-mentioned

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Resolutions adopled on th_e reports of the Second Committee

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