New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress
in implementation and international support
A/RES/68/301
Recalling 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 first biennial report, to be
submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session,
Recalling also the holding of the high-level thematic debate of the General
Assembly on the promotion of investment in Africa and its catalytic role in
achieving Africa’s development objectives, including those of the New Partnership
for Africa’s Development, on 17 July 2014,
Taking note of other initiatives, such as the first high-level meeting of the
Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation on the theme “Building
towards an inclusive post-2015 development agenda”, held in Mexico City on
15 and 16 April 2014,
Stressing that addressing Africa’s special development needs should be given
due attention in the post-2015 development agenda,
Bearing in mind that African countries have primary responsibility for their
own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and
development strategies cannot be overemphasized, and bearing in mind also the
need for their development efforts to be supported by an enabling international
economic environment, and in this regard recalling the support given by the
International Conference on Financing for Development to the New Partnership,5
Noting with appreciation the recent progress made by the 34 African countries
and the 4 regional economic communities that voluntarily adopted the Comprehensive
Africa Agriculture Development Programme and committed to ensuring an annual
rate of growth in agriculture of 6 per cent and to allocating at least 10 per cent of
public expenditure to the agricultural sector, as appropriate, and noting with
appreciation also that, today, nine countries have reached or surpassed the 10 per cent
budget allocation target, while another nine countries are currently spending
between 5 and 10 per cent,
Welcoming the decision, taken by the Assembly of Heads of State and
Government of the African Union at its nineteenth ordinary session, held on 15 and
16 July 2012, to proclaim 2014 the Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa,
Reiterating the need for the international community to implement all
commitments regarding the economic and social development of Africa,
1.
Welcomes the eleventh consolidated report of the Secretary-General;6
2.
Reaffirms its full support for the implementation of the New Partnership
for Africa’s Development;7
3.
Reaffirms its commitment to the full implementation of the political
declaration on Africa’s development needs,2 as reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration
on Financing for Development, adopted as the outcome document of the Follow-up
International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, held in Doha from 29 November to
2 December 2008;8
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5
See Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
6
A/68/222.
7
A/57/304, annex.
8
Resolution 63/239, annex.
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