New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress
in implementation and international support
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strengthened domestic resource mobilization from the public and p rivate sectors, and
improving the efficiency of existing infrastructure investment;
9.
Welcomes the third Global Infrastructure Forum, held in Bali, Indonesia,
on 13 October 2018, and in this regard recalls, as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 11 that
a greater range of voices should be heard, particularly from developing countries, to
identify and address infrastructure and capacity gaps, in particular in African
countries, and that it highlights opportunities for investment and cooperation and
works to ensure that investments are environmentally, socially and economically
sustainable;
10. Recognizes the need for Africa’s development partners to align their
efforts in infrastructure investment towards supporting the Programme for
Infrastructure Development in Africa, recalls the Dakar Agenda for Action to
mobilize investment towards infrastructure development projects, and calls upon
development partners to support the implementation of the Dakar Agenda;
11. Encourages African countries to accelerate the achievement of the
objective of food security and nutrition in Africa, welcomes the commitment made
by African leaders to allocate at least 10 per cent of public expenditure to a griculture
and to ensure its efficiency and effectiveness, in this regard recognizes its support for
the commitments contained in the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural
Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods an d for
the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, and in this regard
notes the important progress made by the 44 African countries and the 4 regional
economic communities that have signed compacts under the Programme;
12. Urges continued support of measures to address the challenges of poverty
eradication, hunger and malnutrition, job creation and sustainable development in
Africa, including, as appropriate, debt relief, improved market access, support for the
private sector and entrepreneurship, fulfilment of commitments on official
development assistance and increased flows of foreign direct investment, and transfer
of technology on mutually agreed terms;
13. Recognizes the need for Africa’s development partners to align their
efforts to implement the commitments contained in the Declaration on Nutrition
Security for Inclusive Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa,
towards supporting the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
and the implementation of the national and regional investment plans of the
Programme for alignment of external funding, and recalls the Declaration of the
World Summit on Food Security; 12
14. Calls for effective measures and targeted investments to overcome
difficulties, to support recovery priorities and to strengthen national health systems
to prevent, protect against and combat outbreaks of diseases, inter alia, the Ebola
outbreak, particularly in the most recently affected countries, in line with the
obligations of the International Health Regulations (2005) 13 and the outcome of the
International Ebola Recovery Conference, held in New York on 10 July 2015, invites
development partners to continue to assist African countries in their efforts to
strengthen national health systems, to expand surveillance systems in the health
sector, in compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005), and to
eliminate diseases, and in this context calls upon development partners to support the
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Resolution 69/313, annex.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document WSFS 2009/2.
World Health Organization, document WHA58/2005/REC/1, resolution 58.3, annex.
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