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A. Reform of United Nations operational activities
5. Stresses the need for all organizations of the United Nations development system to focus their
efforts at the field level on priority areas, in accordance with the priorities identified by recipient countries
and the mandates, mission statements and relevant decisions of their governing bodies, in order to avoid
duplication and to enhance the complementarity and impact of their work;
6. Also stresses that, in the context of the reform of the United Nations Secretariat and the
restructuring and revitalization of the intergovernmental process, the mandates of the separate sectoral and
specialized entities, funds, programmes and specialized agencies should be respected and enhanced, taking
into account their complementarities;
B. Funding for United Nations operational activities
7. Notes with regret that, although significant progress has already been achieved on the governance
and functioning of the United Nations development funds and programmes, there has not been, as part of
that overall change process, any increase in core resources for operational activities for development on
a predictable, continuous and assured basis;
8. Expresses serious concern at the persistent insufficiency of resources for the operational
development activities of the United Nations, in particular the decline in contributions to core resources;
9. Reaffirms the need for priority allocation of scarce grant resources to programmes and projects
in low-income countries, particularly the least developed countries;
10. Strongly reaffirms that the impact of the operational activities of the United Nations system must
be enhanced by, inter alia, a substantial increase in their funding on a predictable, continuous and assured
basis, commensurate with the increasing needs of developing countries, as well as through the full
implementation of resolutions 47/199, 48/162, 50/120 and the parts relevant to operational activities for
development of resolution 52/12 B;
11. Stresses the need for continuous overall improvement in the effectiveness, efficiency and impact
of the United Nations system in delivering its development assistance, and welcomes steps that have been
taken towards that end;
12. Notes with appreciation the sustained contributions of many donors and recipient countries to
operational activities for development in a spirit of partnership;
13. Urges developed countries, in particular those countries whose overall performance is not
commensurate with their capacity, taking into account established official development assistance targets,
including targets established at the Second United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
and their current levels of contribution, to increase substantially their official development assistance,
including contributions to the operational activities of the United Nations system;
14. Stresses that other countries that are in a position to do so should strive to augment their
assistance in the framework of development cooperation;
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