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(d)
To formulate and implement investment strategies and cost-recovery
policies aimed at generating a flow of financial resources commensurate with
needs, taking into account the needs and conditions of the peri-urban and
rural poor;
(e)
To establish or strengthen a nationwide water and sanitation
monitoring system, making full use, as appropriate, of the information support
system developed by the Joint Monitoring Programme of the World Health
Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund;
4.
Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations system and
other relevant organizations to intensify their efforts concerning financial
and technical support for developing countries and countries with economies in
transition;
5.
Urges donor Governments, multilateral financial and development
institutions and non-governmental organizations to give favourable and
appropriate consideration to requests for grants and concessional financing,
particularly with regard to environmental sanitation and sewerage and to
waste-water treatment projects, which are intended to implement programmes
consistent with the provisions and recommendations referred to in paragraph 3
of the present resolution;
6.
Decides to review at its fifty-fifth session the situation at the
end of the 1990s and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to it,
through the Commission on Sustainable Development and the Economic and Social
Council, containing an assessment of the water supply and sanitation situation
in developing countries, including proposals for action for the ensuing decade
at the national and international levels.
96th plenary meeting
20 December 1995