New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support A/RES/73/335 mutually agreed terms, capacity-building and the provision of adequate and predictable resources, in line with existing commitments, and highlights the need for full implementation of the agreed outcomes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2 including the Paris Agreement; 1 23. Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, 16 the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 17 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, 18 the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, 19 the United Nations Convention against Corruption 20 and the international conventions and protocols related to terrorism, and urges States parties to those conventions and protocols to make efforts towards their effective implementation; 24. Underscores the importance of support by Africa’s partners, in particular developed countries, of efforts by African countries to strengthen d omestic resource mobilization, including through capacity-building and strengthening of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows and enhance asset recovery and return; 25. Reiterates the commitment to redouble efforts to substantially reduce illicit financial flows by 2030, with a view to eventually eliminating them, including by combating tax evasion and corruption through strengthened national regulation and increased international cooperation, in line with the Addis Ababa Action Agend a, and the strengthening of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows; 26. Notes the second International Expert Meeting on the Return of Stolen Assets, held in Addis Ababa from 7 to 9 May 2019, and encourages the continuation of its work in advancing efforts to strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and the identification of good practices for the return of stolen assets in support of sustainable development; 27. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls, and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies, and recommits to adopting and strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels, to ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate genderbased violence, sexual exploitation and abuse and discrimination in all its forms ; 28. Welcomes the noteworthy progress that has been achieved in implementing the African Peer Review Mechanism, in particular the voluntary adherence of 38 African countries to the Mechanism and the completion of the peer review process in 21 countries, welcomes the progress in implementing the national programmes of action resulting from those reviews, in this regard urges African States that have not yet done so to consider joining the Mechanism process by 2023, as envisaged in the first 10-year implementation plan of Agenda 2063, encourages further strengthening of the Mechanism process for its efficient performance, and takes note of the decisions taken by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African __________________ 16 17 18 19 20 19-15588 United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574. Ibid., vol. 976, No. 14152. Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956. Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627. Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146. 7/11