New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support
A/RES/71/320
Welcoming the adoption of Agenda 2063 by the Assembly of Heads of State
and Government of the African Union at its twenty-fourth ordinary session, held in
Addis Ababa on 30 and 31 January 2015, as the African Union long-term strategy
emphasizing industrialization, youth employment, improved natural resource
governance and the reduction of inequalities,
Welcoming also the adoption by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government
of the African Union of the first 10-year implementation plan (2014–2023) of the
African Union Agenda 2063, which outlines key African flagship projects, fast -track
programmes, priority areas, specific targets and African strategies and policy
measures at all levels to support its implementation,
Welcoming further the Paris Agreement 1 and its early entry into force,
encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 that have not yet done
so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession,
where appropriate, as soon as possible,
Welcoming the convening of the twenty-second session of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the
twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties
to the Kyoto Protocol and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving
as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, held in Marrakech, Morocco,
from 7 to 18 November 2016, and welcoming also the Marrakech Action
Proclamation,
Recalling that significant challenges remain in achieving sustainable
development in Africa and the importance of fulfilling all commitments to advance
action in areas critical to Africa’s sustainable development,
Recalling also the declaration of the high-level meeting of African and
international leaders, entitled “Toward African renaissance: renewed partnership for
a unified approach to end hunger in Africa by 2025 under the framework of the
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme”,
Recalling further the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, 3 as well as the
Framework for Action, 4 which provides a set of voluntary policy options and
strategies for use by Governments, as appropriate, adopted at the Second
International Conference on Nutrition, held in Rome from 19 to 2 1 November 2014,
Recalling its resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it proclaimed 2016–
2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition,
Recalling also its resolution 66/293 of 17 September 2012, by which it
established a United Nations monitoring mechanism to review commitments made
towards Africa’s development, and looking forward to the third biennial report of
the Secretary-General on the review of the implementation of the commitments
made towards Africa’s development, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session,
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1
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
3
World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
2
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