New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support A/RES/71/320 Dakar on 14 and 15 June 2014 of the Financing Summit for Africa’s Infrastructure, which adopted the Dakar Agenda for Action to mobilize investment towards infrastructure development projects, starting with 16 bankable projects identified from the priority action plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa, and calls upon development partners to support the implementation of the Dakar Agenda; 64. Welcomes the second Global Infrastructure Forum, held in Washington, D.C., on 22 April 2017, and in this regard recalls, as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third Internatio nal Conference on Financing for Development, 18 that a greater range of voices should be heard, particularly from developing countries, to identify and address infrastructure and capacity gaps, in particular in, inter alia, African countries, and that it will highlight opportunities for investment and cooperation and work to ensure that investments are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable; 65. Invites all of Africa’s development partners, in particular developed countries, to support the efforts of African countries to promote and maintain macroeconomic stability, to help African countries to attract investments and promote policies conducive to attracting domestic and foreign investment, for example by encouraging private financial flows and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, to promote investment by their private sectors in Africa, to encourage and facilitate the development and transfer of technology to African countries, on mutually agreed terms, and to assist in strengthening human and institutional capacities for the implementation of the New Partnership, consistent with its priorities and objectives and with a view to furthering Africa’s development at all levels; 66. Reiterates the need to support developing countries, particularly African countries, least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure access to high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data; 67. Underscores the importance of support by Africa’s partners, in particular developed countries, of efforts by African countries to strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through capacity-building; 68. Reiterates the commitment to redouble efforts to substantially reduce illicit financial flows by 2030, with a view to eventually eliminating them, including by combating tax evasion and corruption through strengthened national regulation and increased international cooperation, in line with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and underlines the importance of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development; 69. Stresses that the prevention, management and resolution of conflict and post-conflict consolidation are essential for the achievement of the objectives of the New Partnership, and welcomes in this regard the cooperation and support granted by the United Nations and development partners to the African regional and subregional organizations in the implementation of the New Partnership; 70. Welcomes the continued efforts of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission in assisting post-conflict countries in Africa, particularly the six African countries for which the Commission has established country-specific configurations; _______________ 18 12/13 Resolution 69/313, annex.

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