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 24 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, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1996–2001

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/55/216

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2001	A/RES/55/216	Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s	1,566	21%Compare
1998	A/RES/53/90	Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s	714	13%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/160B	Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s	224	9%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/160A	Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s	1,551	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Africa Development Assistance Poverty Mitigation Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the progress report of the Secretary-General on the 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;3

Expresses concern at the overall declining trend of resource flows to Africa, in particular in the level of official development assistance, which has been an impediment, among other things, to the timely implementation of the New Agenda;

Emphasizes the need to focus on priority areas identified by African countries themselves, as stipulated in the Cairo Agenda for Action⁶ and the New Agenda, and to organize close consultations at both the policy and the operational levels among the various development partners, in order to achieve the best results;

⁶See A/50/647, annex II, resolution AHG/Res.236 (XXXI), annex.

Reiterates the importance of effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and other follow-up mechanisms for the implementation of the New Agenda at the national, subregional, regional and global levels, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to propose a set of performance indicators to measure the progress made in the implementation of the New Agenda;

Urges all States, international and multilateral organizations, financial institutions and development funds and programmes of the United Nations system as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to take, as a matter of urgency, concrete and effective measures in order to implement fully, in a coordinated manner, the recommendations contained 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;⁷

⁷Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 48 (A/51/48).

Requests the Secretary-General, in his efforts to harmonize current international and bilateral initiatives on Africa, to ensure the effective and timely implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, and, in this context, to ensure that the United Nations and its funds and programmes are working in a coordinated manner within the framework of the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative for the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s;

Also 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-fifth session a progress report on the implementation of resolution 51/32.

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