Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993-2002)

A/RES/56/187View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 96b Industrial development cooperation, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1993–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/257

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/257	Fourth Industrial Development Decade for Africa (2026–2035)	2,499	35%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/293	Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (2016-2025)	1,519	10%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/187	Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993-2002)	1,518	—
1993	A/RES/47/177	Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa, 1991-2000	—	–

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15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993–2002);⁷

⁷A/56/139.

Notes with concern that, despite the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa, which ends in 2002, little progress has been made in the overall industrialization of the continent and in some countries industrialization has regressed, and in that regard reaffirms the need for continuing domestic and international efforts towards Africa’s industrialization;

Reaffirms the need for the African countries that have not yet done so to integrate the objectives of the Alliance for Africa’s Industrialization, as appropriate, into their national plans for the establishment of institutional capacity for monitoring programmes and related projects;

Emphasizes the need for support for the implementation of the sectoral priorities in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development concerning diversification of African production and exports, specifically with regard to promotion of the manufacturing sector and agro-based industries and for enhancing productive capacities and enabling African countries to participate more effectively in global trade;

Underlines the need for national Governments to improve the regulatory and policy environment in which micro, small and medium-sized enterprises operate, inter alia, to facilitate their access to credit and improve transport, energy and communications infrastructures, in order to foster their economic performance and competitiveness, and in that regard invites development partners to provide the appropriate technical assistance;

Invites the Economic Commission for Africa to work in cooperation with the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and to play a more active role in the promotion of new information and communication technologies and e-commerce;

Also invites the Economic Commission for Africa to play a more active role in the development of African micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and industries, in coordination with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and other United Nations bodies concerned with the development of such enterprises, paying particular attention to enterprises owned by women and to women entrepreneurs;

Invites the international community, the World Bank, United Nations funds and programmes, the African Development Bank and other relevant regional institutions, in accordance with their respective mandates, to give full effect to the relevant provisions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development by supporting the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and the Plan of Action of the Alliance for Africa’s Industrialization,4 as well as the outcome of the Conference on Industrial Partnerships and Investment in Africa and the outcome of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry;

Appeals to the international community, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and United Nations funds and programmes, in accordance with their respective mandates, to support the efforts of the African countries to intensify and expand industrial cooperation among themselves;

Commends the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for its work related to the provision of technical assistance to African countries, in particular the least developed among them, so as to enhance their capacity to overcome technical barriers to trade in industrial and other products, including improving quality standards to alleviate supply-side constraints, and to promote industrial competitiveness, and calls upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to work closely with the World Trade Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant multilateral institutions in the provision of technical assistance to African countries, in order to enable them to integrate fully into the world economy;

Calls upon the international community to support Africa in strengthening its private sector through, in particular, the promotion of investment and exports, the promotion and creation of small and medium-sized enterprises, increased productivity, improved quality assurance and standardization, and financing, and welcomes in that context the trade facilitation initiatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization;

Also calls upon the international community to support the efforts of African countries to enhance the development of their human resources in the fields of health, basic education and vocational and technical training through, inter alia, South-South cooperation utilizing triangular arrangements;

Requests the Secretary-General to complete a review of the implementation of the programme for the Decade, including identification of lessons learned, before the end of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, with a view to including the outcome of such a review in the overall review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s2 and the ongoing processes under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the establishment of the African Union;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session under an item entitled “United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa”, a sub-item entitled “Implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa”;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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