A/RES/59/249 14. Emphasizes the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skills enhancement, with a special focus on agro-industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities; 15. Stresses the need for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to promote, within its mandate, the development of competitive industries in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, as well as in landlocked developing countries; 16. Reaffirms the need to support the survival and expansion of industrial manufacturing activity in developing countries, and in this regard calls upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to improve its technical cooperation activities through, inter alia, the areas of technology diffusion and capacity-building for market access and development; 17. Welcomes the active role played by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the High-Level Committee on Programmes of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, and encourages it to continue promoting enhanced coordination and coherence within the United Nations system with a view to reinforcing the quality and relevance of the United Nations in the field of economic development; 18. Requests the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to facilitate industrial development with emphasis on the priority areas outlined in its medium-term programme framework, 2004–2007; 19. Encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to increase its contributions to achieve the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development 8 with a view to further strengthening the industrialization process in Africa; 20. Also encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to develop further its global forum capacity according to its mandate, with the aim of enhancing, in the context of the globalization process, a common understanding of global and regional industrial sector issues and their impact on poverty eradication and sustainable development, and calls for further strengthening of the demand-driven integrated programme approach at the field level; 21. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 75th plenary meeting 22 December 2004 _______________ 8 4 A/57/304, annex.