New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support
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71. Urges the international community to continue to give due attention to
Africa’s priorities, including the New Partnership, in line with the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development;
72. Requests the United Nations system to continue to provide assistance to
the Planning and Coordinating Agency of the New Partnership and to African
countries in developing projects and programmes within the scope of the priorities
of the New Partnership and to place greater emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and
dissemination of the effectiveness of its activities in support of the New Partnership;
73. Emphasizes African ownership of the African Peer Review Mechanism
process, and invites the international community to support the efforts of African
countries, at their request, in implementing their respective national programmes of
action arising from the process;
74. Requests the Secretary-General to promote greater coherence in the work
of the United Nations system in support of the New Partnership, on the basis of the
agreed clusters of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa, and in this
regard calls upon the United Nations system to continue to mainstream the special
needs of Africa in all its normative and operational activities;
75. Welcomes the establishment of a United Nations monitoring mechanism
to review commitments made relating to Africa’s development, and invites Member
States and all relevant entities of the United Nations system, including funds,
programmes, specialized agencies and regional commissions, in particular the
Economic Commission for Africa, and all relevant international and regional
organizations, to contribute to the effectiveness and reliability of the review process
by cooperating in the collection of data and the evaluation performance;
76. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the
implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its seventysecond session on the basis of inputs from Governments, organizations of the United
Nations system and other stakeholders in the New Partnership.
96th plenary meeting
8 September 2017
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