A/RES/59/250
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South-South cooperation and development of national capacities
79. Welcomes the growing importance of South-South cooperation and its
adoption as a driver of development effectiveness within the multi-year funding
framework of the United Nations Development Programme;
80. Urges organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to
mainstream, in their programmes and through their country-level activities and
country offices, modalities to support South-South cooperation that would promote
identification and dissemination of best practices, promote indigenous knowledge,
know-how and technology in the South and facilitate networking among experts and
institutions in developing countries;
81. Invites Member States and the organizations of the United Nations
development system to celebrate the United Nations Day for South-South
Cooperation in a befitting and comprehensive manner every year;
82. Emphasizes the need to mobilize additional resources for enhancing
South-South cooperation, including from both the United Nations system and
donors, and through triangular cooperation;
83. Urges all Member States and the organizations of the United Nations
development system to actively participate in the High-Level Committee on the
Review of South-South Cooperation with a view to formulating and reviewing the
strategies as well as sharing information and their experience;
84. Encourages, in this regard, United Nations funds and programmes, the
specialized agencies as well as centres of excellence in the South to contribute to the
periodic updating of the Web of Information for Development, the electronic
databank operated by the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation of the United
Nations Development Programme in coordination with Governments, allowing for
the wide diffusion of and access to the information contained therein, including
experiences, best practices and potential partners in South-South cooperation;
85. Highlights the fact that, in spite of progress achieved in this area, further
efforts are required to better understand the approaches and potential of South-South
cooperation to enhance development effectiveness, including through national
capacity development, and in this context calls upon all the organizations of the
system to further enhance their support for national capacity development in the
context of South-South cooperation;
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Gender
86. Calls upon all organizations of the United Nations system, within their
organizational mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender
equality in their country programmes, planning instruments and sector-wide
programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this field in
accordance with the national development strategies;
87. Urges all organizations of the system to collaborate with the resident
coordinator system to provide gender specialist resources in support of gender
mainstreaming in country-level activities in all sectors where they operate, working
closely with relevant national counterparts in generating the gender disaggregated,
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