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15. Notes the importance of non-core resources, including cost-sharing, trust funds and nontraditional sources of financing, as a mechanism to enhance the capacity and to supplement the means of
operational activities for development;
16. Notes the discussions on funding strategies in the executive boards of the United Nations funds
and programmes, including, inter alia, the decisions adopted recently by the Executive Board of the United
Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund2 as part of ongoing efforts by
Member States to reverse the declining trend in core resources and to put funding for United Nations
development activities on a predictable, continuous and assured basis, commensurate with the needs of
the developing countries, and in this context urges the expeditious and productive outcome of these and
other discussions of the executive boards, and invites the Economic and Social Council to consider, on
an annual basis, the overall financial picture of the funds and programmes;
C. United Nations Development Assistance Framework
17. Emphasizes that the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, which is currently in
a pilot phase,3 should promote a country-driven, collaborative and coherent response by the United
Nations system to achieve greater impact at the country level, fully consistent with and in support of
national priorities as expressed in the country strategy notes or relevant national development plans, as
appropriate;
18. Stresses the importance of ensuring full government participation in the formulation of the
United Nations Development Assistance Framework and its full ownership through the agreement of the
recipient Governments concerned to the finalized Framework, bearing in mind that the responsibility for
coordination of all assistance and developmental activities rests with the national Government;
19. Also stresses the need to ensure the full and active participation of the funds and programmes
and specialized agencies of the United Nations system in the preparation of the United Nations
Development Assistance Framework;
20. Notes the importance of closer consultation, in the formulation of the United Nations
Development Assistance Framework, among national Governments, relevant United Nations development
agencies, including specialized agencies, and other relevant development partners;
21. Also notes that the country strategy note remains a voluntary initiative and that where it does
not exist, other similar frameworks reflecting national priorities should be used as the basis for the
preparation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, to ensure that the Framework fully
responds to national development priorities and needs;
22. Further notes the role that the United Nations Development Assistance Framework should play
to facilitate, inter alia, the contribution of the United Nations to the coordinated follow-up to the major
United Nations conferences at the field level and the importance of the common country assessment for
the effective formulation of the Framework;
2
See DP/1999/2.
3
See A/53/226, paras. 72-77, and A/53/226/Add.1, paras. 88-98.
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