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3.
Also welcomes the overwhelming response of all countries,
especially the developing countries, to the commitments agreed upon at the
World Summit for Children;
4.
Notes with appreciation the contributions of international and
bilateral donors and civil society to the achievement of the goals of the
World Summit for Children;
5.
Takes note with concern of the considerable variation in the
progress made across countries and regions owing to different baseline
conditions in 1990 and the varying rates of progress in relation to the goals;
6.
Expresses particular concern that progress on malnutrition,
maternal mortality, sanitation, and girls' education has been inadequate, and
in some cases negligible;
7.
Reaffirms the need for effective follow-up to the World
Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the
Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival,
Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s;3
8.
Recognizes the need for more intensive efforts to reach the goals
for child mortality, the education of children, in particular girl children,
maternal mortality, child malnutrition and sanitation;
9.
Also recognizes the important role of the United Nations system in
providing coordinated support for the implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of the World Declaration and the Plan of Action and the leadership
role of the United Nations Children's Fund;
10.
Invites Governments to increase, as appropriate, their budget
allocations to basic social services for covering the special needs of
children in order to facilitate the achievement of the goals set out in the
World Declaration and the Plan of Action;
11.
Urges developed countries to make increased efforts to mobilize
additional resources for the fulfilment of the goals and objectives of the
World Summit for Children and to ensure, in the context of their development
assistance, that programmes to that end will have a priority when resources
are allocated;
12.
Encourages civil society and the private sector to continue to
support generously the implementation of the goals of the World Summit for
Children;
13.
Stresses the need for according priority to the special needs of
children in regions of slow progress, particularly the least developed
countries and sub-Saharan Africa, and in other developing countries that have
not yet reached the mid-decade goals;
14.
Recognizes the need for continued cooperation and partnership and
appropriate international support to those developing countries that have
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