New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support
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Dakar on 14 and 15 June 2014 of the Financing Summit for Africa’s Infrastructure,
which adopted the Dakar Agenda for Action to mobilize investment towards
infrastructure development projects, starting with 16 bankable projects identified
from the priority action plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in
Africa, and calls upon development partners to support the implementation of the
Dakar Agenda;
64. Welcomes the second Global Infrastructure Forum, held in
Washington, D.C., on 22 April 2017, and in this regard recalls, as outlined in the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third Internatio nal Conference on Financing for
Development, 18 that a greater range of voices should be heard, particularly from
developing countries, to identify and address infrastructure and capacity gaps, in
particular in, inter alia, African countries, and that it will highlight opportunities for
investment and cooperation and work to ensure that investments are
environmentally, socially and economically sustainable;
65. Invites all of Africa’s development partners, in particular developed
countries, to support the efforts of African countries to promote and maintain
macroeconomic stability, to help African countries to attract investments and promote
policies conducive to attracting domestic and foreign investment, for example by
encouraging private financial flows and supporting small and medium-sized
enterprises, to promote investment by their private sectors in Africa, to encourage and
facilitate the development and transfer of technology to African countries, on mutually
agreed terms, and to assist in strengthening human and institutional capacities for the
implementation of the New Partnership, consistent with its priorities and objectives
and with a view to furthering Africa’s development at all levels;
66. Reiterates the need to support developing countries, particularly African
countries, least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked
developing countries, in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and
data systems to ensure access to high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data;
67. Underscores the importance of support by Africa’s partners, in particular
developed countries, of efforts by African countries to strengthen domestic resource
mobilization, including through capacity-building;
68. Reiterates the commitment to redouble efforts to substantially reduce
illicit financial flows by 2030, with a view to eventually eliminating them, including
by combating tax evasion and corruption through strengthened national regulation
and increased international cooperation, in line with the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda, and underlines the importance of international cooperation to combat illicit
financial flows in order to foster sustainable development;
69. Stresses that the prevention, management and resolution of conflict and
post-conflict consolidation are essential for the achievement of the objectives of the
New Partnership, and welcomes in this regard the cooperation and support granted
by the United Nations and development partners to the African regional and
subregional organizations in the implementation of the New Partnership;
70. Welcomes the continued efforts of the United Nations Peacebuilding
Commission in assisting post-conflict countries in Africa, particularly the six
African countries for which the Commission has established country-specific
configurations;
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