Economic and Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries

A/RES/54/226View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101b Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1990–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/220

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/220	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,001	33%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/263	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	783	20%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/202	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,310	32%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/226	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,546	22%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/205	Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries	1,220	19%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2002–2005

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2005	A/60/257	The state of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/220
2003	A/58/345	Raising public awareness of and support for South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/263
2003	A/58/319	State of South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/56/202
2002	A/57/155	Measures to promote and facilitate South-South cooperation report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/56/202

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Budget Contributions Capacity Building Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Private Sector Programme Implementation Recommendations Resources Allocation Scientific Cooperation South-South Trade Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries Technology Transfer Trade Facilitation Centres Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Endorses the report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries on its eleventh session⁵ and the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee at that session;⁶

⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/54/39).

⁶Ibid., annex I.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation;⁷

⁷A/54/425.

Reiterates that South-South cooperation should be viewed not as a substitute for but rather as a complement to North-South cooperation, and in that connection emphasizes the need to promote effectively, inter alia, triangular approaches to facilitate South-South programmes and projects;

Recognizes the significant role of economic and technical cooperation between developing countries and countries with economies in transition in promoting implementation of South-South programmes and projects;

Welcomes the significant increase in South-South cooperation among developing countries, both in number and in sectoral coverage, reported by developing countries and the United Nations system;

Notes with appreciation the recent expansion in the scope of economic cooperation among developing countries, with increasing cooperation among business sectors and enterprises in different countries, including through the Trade Point Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the buyers and sellers meetings of the International Trade Centre and the business forums and Enterprise Forums of the International Labour Organization, and encourages those United Nations organizations to document and to disseminate their experiences, lessons and operational methodologies for future application;

Also notes with appreciation the growing economic cooperation among developing countries with increasing mutual trade and investment, as well as industrial and technical cooperation, including in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises;

Welcomes the successful conclusion of the second round of negotiations on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries, and invites participating countries to join in efforts towards deepening, accelerating and expanding the Global System to enhance its impact;

Recognizes the progress achieved in a number of developing countries in strengthening human and institutional capacities, inter alia, in such areas as education, health, biotechnology, information and communications technology, space technology, financial sector management and microfinance, the sharing of which would be beneficial to enhancing growth and development in other developing countries, and urges the international community, particularly bilateral and multilateral donors, to continue to assist the capacity-building efforts of developing countries in these areas;

Notes with appreciation the growing number of developed countries participating in triangular cooperation, encourages the use of such cooperation by other countries, and in this context requests the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries of the United Nations Development Programme, in collaboration with the countries that have been supporting such cooperation, to seek innovative ways to document and disseminate relevant lessons learned on the basis of progress achieved and problems encountered and to identify options for the exploitation of the full potential of such cooperation;

Also notes with appreciation the contribution made by some countries to the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation and to the Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund for Economic and Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, and invites all countries, in particular developed countries, to contribute to the Trust Funds;

Calls upon all Governments and all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral and regional financial institutions to consider increasing allocations of financial resources for economic and technical cooperation among developing countries and to strengthen funding modalities to promote South-South cooperation, such as triangular cooperation and private sector funding;

Encourages developing countries and relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system, as well as other partners in development efforts, in the practice of technical and economic cooperation among developing countries, to develop and to support innovative mechanisms to foster South-South cooperation in science and technology, with particular emphasis on the development and the sharing of high technologies and appropriate technologies, with a view to their better utilization for the growth and the development of developing countries;

Stresses, in this context, that South-South cooperation in science and technology is not a replacement for but a complement to traditional North-South cooperation in science and technology, in particular appropriate North-South technology transfer;

Emphasizes the need for concerted action by developing countries and their development partners, including relevant international organizations, with a view to strengthening cooperation and collaboration among developing countries at the subregional, regional and interregional levels;

Reiterates its invitation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, as well as other relevant organizations, taking into account their agreed mandates, work programmes and priorities, to undertake jointly further work on formulating concrete recommendations on the implementation of and follow-up to the Caracas Programme of Action,⁸ adopted at the High-level Conference on Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries, held at Caracas in May 1981, as an important mechanism for economic cooperation among developing countries, and the San José Declaration and Plan of Action2 adopted by the Group of 77 at the South-South Conference on Trade, Investment and Finance, as well as on the Bali Declaration on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries⁹ and the Bali Plan of Action on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries¹⁰ adopted by the Group of 77 High-level Conference on Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation of the Developing Countries, held on Bali, Indonesia, from 2 to 5 December 1998, within the context of South-South cooperation;

⁸A/36/333 and Corr.1, annex.

⁹A/53/739, annex I.

¹⁰Ibid., annex II.

Requests the United Nations system to take appropriate measures to improve the effective incorporation of technical cooperation among developing countries into its programmes and projects and to intensify efforts towards mainstreaming the modality of technical cooperation among developing countries, including through support to the activities of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, and encourages other relevant international institutions to take similar measures;

Reiterates its request to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to ensure that the separate identity of the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries is maintained and that the Unit is supported so that it may fully implement its mandate and system-wide responsibilities for promoting, monitoring and coordinating technical cooperation among developing countries;

Stresses the need, with reference to decision 11/3 adopted by the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries at its eleventh session5 and the provisional agenda for the twelfth session of the High-level Committee approved therein, to take appropriate measures to ensure the necessary level of attendance of all member States in the meeting of the High-level Committee, including through discussions of country experiences at the field level, in terms of progress achieved, problems encountered and lessons learned;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the sub-item entitled “Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries”, and in that context requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to submit to it at that session a report on the state of South-South cooperation and a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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