A/RES/59/239 2. Recognizes that Governments have the primary responsibility for the sound and effective implementation of the Habitat Agenda1 and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium,2 and stresses that the international community should fully implement its commitments to support the Governments of developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition in their efforts, through the provision of the requisite resources, capacitybuilding, the transfer of technology and the creation of an international enabling environment; Calls for continued financial support to UN-Habitat through increased 3. voluntary contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, and invites Governments to provide multi-year funding to support programme implementation; 4. Also calls for increased, non-earmarked contributions to the Foundation; 5. Requests the Executive Director to continue to work with the World Bank Group, regional development banks, other development banks, the private sector and other relevant partners to field-test approaches through pilot projects and to develop longer-term programmes to mobilize resources to increase the supply of affordable credit for slum upgrading and other pro-poor human settlements development in developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition; Calls upon the international donor community and financial institutions 6. to contribute generously to the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund and other operational activities of UN-Habitat for the effective implementation of its field programmes; Recognizes the important role of regional offices and personnel of 7. UN-Habitat in providing operational support to developing countries, and in this regard calls upon Governments to strengthen and support financially the regional offices of UN-Habitat in order to expand operational support to developing countries and countries with economies in transition; Calls upon UN-Habitat to continue to work closely with the other 8. organizations of the United Nations system, integrating UN-Habitat staff as appropriate into existing United Nations country offices; Requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of UN-Habitat 9. and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to UN-Habitat and the other United Nations organs and organizations in Nairobi; 10. Encourages Governments to establish local, national and regional urban observatories and to provide financial and substantive support to UN-Habitat for the further development of methodologies for data collection, analysis and dissemination; 11. Encourages Member States as well as Habitat Agenda partners to provide support for the preparation of the UN-Habitat flagship reports, the Global Report on Human Settlements and the State of the World’s Cities report, on a biennial basis so as to raise awareness of human settlements and to provide information on urban conditions and trends around the world; 12. Encourages Governments to support the UN-Habitat Global Campaign for Secure Tenure and the Global Campaign on Urban Governance as important tools for, inter alia, promoting administration of land and property rights, in 3