A/RES/80/267
Promotion of durable peace through sustainable development
in Africa
strategies, priorities and other related frameworks and, where appropriate and in line
with their governance arrangements, to consider providing additional resources in
support of their implementation;
11. Encourages the Secretary-General to utilize the Peacebuilding Fund to
support countries, upon their request, to work in coordination with relevant
stakeholders, on the basis of the principles of national leadership and ownership, to
advance greater coherence in peacebuilding, including in support of voluntary
national prevention and peacebuilding strategies and approaches to sustain peace;
12. Welcomes the progress made by African countries, the African Union and
subregional organizations in conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping,
peacebuilding and development, calls for intensified efforts, support and a
coordinated approach among national Governments, the African Union, subregional
organizations, the United Nations system and relevant partners in addressing those
challenges, with a view to achieving further progress towards the goal of a conflict free Africa, and in this regard recognizes the important role played by civil society
organizations, including women’s organizations;
13. Reiterates that we are setting out together on the path towards sustainable
development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a
balanced and integrated manner, including through international cooperation and
partnership on the basis of mutual trust and the full benefit of all, in a spirit of global
solidarity, and for the common future of present and coming generations, focusing on
the needs of African countries and the achievement of the Sustainable Development
Goals;
14. Recognizes the need for African countries to make continued efforts to
create enabling environments for inclusive growth in support of sustainable
development, and calls upon the international community to enhance support and
fulfil its commitments to take further action in areas critical to Africa’s economic and
social development;
15. Underscores the importance of adopting a comprehensive and integrated
approach to the peace and security challenges facing the continent, and requests the
Secretary-General to continue to promote the coordination of United Nations entities
to support a comprehensive response to Africa’s peace and development challenges;
16. Urges continued support for measures to address the challenges of poverty
eradication and hunger, decent job creation and sustainable development in Africa,
including, as appropriate, domestic resource mobilization, debt relief, improved
market access, regional integration and intra-African trade, including through the
African Continental Free Trade Area, support for the private sector and
entrepreneurship, fulfilment of commitments on official development assistance and
increased flows of foreign direct investment and transfer of technology on mutually
agreed terms;
17. Underscores the importance of scaling up demand-based institutional,
technological and human capacity-building in African countries as a foundation for
sustainable peace and Africa-led development, including for strengthened fiscal
systems and domestic resource mobilization, enhanced financial accountability and
improved efficiency in public spending, and further emphasizes the need to expand
fiscal space in ways that uphold public trust, including by leveraging digital public
infrastructure to promote transparency, improve access to services, strengthen fiscal
management and foster civic participation in public decision -making;
18. Also underscores that the multilateral system should place the
strengthening of State capacity and legitimacy within the core mandate of
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