Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44 Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, published in 1997.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Africa Development Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Sustainable Development

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6 operative paragraphs

Adopts the conclusions of the mid-term review of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, consisting of an assessment of the responses and measures to accelerate the implementation of the New Agenda, as set forth in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s,1 highlighting key areas for priority attention, inter alia: (a) economic reforms, including the effective mobilization and efficient utilization of domestic resources; (b) the promotion of private sector and foreign direct investment; (c) the intensification of the democratic process and the strengthening of civil society; (d) environment and development; (e) resource flows; (f) solution of Africa's debt problem; (g) trade facilitation and market access; (h) the diversification of African economies; (i) the improvement of physical and institutional infrastructure and social and human resource development; and (j) women in development;

Requests the Secretary-General to give the outcome of the mid-term review the widest publicity to all Member States and in particular to sensitize the heads of the agencies and institutions of the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, and the donor community to the measures and recommendations contained therein;

Requests all States, international and multilateral organizations, financial institutions and development funds, the organs and programmes of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to take, as a matter of urgency, concrete and effective measures in order to implement fully the recommendations contained in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee and to do so in a coordinated manner;

Reaffirms the importance of effective follow-up, monitoring and evaluation arrangements for the implementation of the New Agenda at the national, regional and global levels, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to strengthen and improve follow-up, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the New Agenda;

Recognizes the complementary role of the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative on Africa in the implementation of the New Agenda, including the mobilization of adequate resources, while avoiding unnecessary duplication of activities;

Requests the Secretary-General, pending the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda in the year 2002, to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third and fifty-fifth sessions a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution under an item entitled "Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, including measures and recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review".

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