Development Account

A/RES/53/220AView PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 113 Programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999, published in 1999.

What else is in this group?

5 documents · 1998–2002

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2002).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/237	Development Account	383	–
1999	A/RES/54/15	Development Account	369	–
1999	A/RES/53/220B	Development Account	489	–
1999	A/RES/53/220A	Development Account	502	–
1998	A/RES/52/235	Development Account	541	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Capacity Building Dividend for Development Drug Control Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Electronic Commerce Human Settlements Information Networks Rules and Regulations Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Approves, from the eight proposals made in the report of the Secretary-General,1 proposals A, B, D and E below:

A. Promotion of electronic commerce (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development);

B. Capacity-building in economic and social policy analysis in Africa through the networking of expertise (Economic Commission for Africa);

D. Computer and telecommunication system for international and national drug control (United Nations International Drug Control Programme);

E. Capacity-building and networking for the implementation of the Habitat Agenda in least developed countries (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements),

on an ad hoc and one-time basis only, without setting a precedent and without prejudicing the outcome of its consideration of the sustainability and establishment of the mechanism and modalities of the Development Account;

Emphasizes that, in the implementation of those proposals, emphasis should be placed on the promotion of development activities, and that the implementation should demonstrate the benefits accruing in building national capacities, particularly in developing countries and also in countries with economies in transition;

Stresses that, in the implementation of the proposals, particular attention should be given to the utilization of technical, human and other resources available in the developing countries;

Decides that the proposals should be reformulated and implemented in accordance with the relevant Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, as revised by the General Assembly in its resolution 53/207 of 18 December 1998;

Requests the Secretary-General to reformulate the other proposals contained in his report following criteria according to which projects should:

Have multiplier effects and promote capacity-building primarily in developing countries;

Promote regional and interregional economic and technical cooperation among the developing countries;

Use available human and technical resources from the developing regions;

and to submit those reformulated proposals to the General Assembly at the second part of its resumed fifty-third session;

Decides to keep the implementation of the proposals under review, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly on the utilization of the development dividend, in accordance with relevant regulations and rules;

Also decides to continue consideration of the sustainability and establishment of the mechanism and modalities of the Development Account during the resumed fifty-third session.

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