A/RES/51/189
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(c)
To improve their coordination so as to enhance the delivery of
financial and other support;
6.
Invites non-governmental organizations and major groups to
initiate and strengthen their actions to facilitate and support the effective
implementation of the Global Programme of Action;
7.
Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment
Programme to prepare, for the consideration of the Governing Council at its
nineteenth session, specific proposals on:
(a)
The role of the United Nations Environment Programme in the
implementation of the Global Programme of Action, including the relevant role
of its Regional Seas Programme and Freshwater Unit;
(b)
Action;
Arrangements for secretariat support to the Global Programme of
(c)
Modalities for periodic intergovernmental review of progress in
implementing the Global Programme of Action;
8.
Calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme, within its
available resources, and with the aid of voluntary contributions from States
for this purpose, to take expeditious action to provide for the establishment
and implementation of the clearing-house mechanism referred to in the Global
Programme of Action, and requests the Executive Director of the United Nations
Environment Programme to prepare and submit to the Governing Council at its
nineteenth session specific proposals on, inter alia:
(a)
The establishment of an inter-organizational group to develop the
basic design and structure of the clearing-house data directory and its
linkages to information delivery mechanisms;
(b)
The means of linking the inter-organizational group to ongoing
work within the United Nations system on the identification of and access to
relevant databases and the comparability of data;
(c)
The outline of a pilot project on the development of the clearinghouse's source category component on sewage, to be implemented in partnership
with the World Health Organization;
9.
Calls upon States, in relation to the clearing-house mechanism, to
take action in the governing bodies of relevant intergovernmental
organizations and programmes so as to ensure that those organizations and
programmes take the lead in coordinating the development of the clearing-house
mechanism with respect to the following source categories, which are listed in
conjunction with the relevant organization(s) or programme(s) but not in order
of priority:
(a)
Sewage - the World Health Organization;
(b)
Persistent organic pollutants - the Inter-organization Programme
for the Sound Management of Chemicals, the International Programme on Chemical
Safety and the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety;
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