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from within existing financial resources, an assessment of the survey with a view to highlighting the
lessons learned from the responses already received, providing a qualitative assessment of pedagogical
methods followed by these institutions in the provision of their training services and highlighting the
complementarities and synergies that were apparent in the survey;
9. Welcomes the progress made in building partnerships between the Institute and other agencies
and bodies of the United Nations system with respect to their training programmes, especially for
developing countries and countries with economies in transition, consistent with the division of labour;
10. Underlines the need to develop further and expand the scope of these partnerships, particularly
at the country level;
11. Requests the Board of Trustees to attract, to the extent possible, experts from developing
countries and countries with economies in transition for the preparation of the relevant training materials
for the programmes and activities of the Institute;
12. Calls upon the Secretary-General to continue to explore all possible ways and means to provide
additional facilities to the Institute for maintaining its offices and for conducting programmes and training
courses that are provided at no cost to States and to their representatives accredited to United Nations
offices in New York, Nairobi, Geneva and Vienna;
13. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Institute, as well as with the United
Nations funds and programmes, to continue to explore ways and modalities to utilize systematically the
Institute in the execution of training and capacity-building programmes;
14. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session
on the implementation of the present resolution.
91st plenary meeting
15 December 1998