30 July 1982

Activities of the Economic Commission for Africa

A New statutes of the Regional Institute for Population Studies at Accra, and the Institut de formation et de recherche demographiques at Yaounde

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling resolution 393 (XV) of 12 April 1980 of the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa, by which the Conference endorsed the new statutes of the Regional Institute for Population Studies at Accra and the Institut de formation et de recherche demographiques at Yaounde and recommended that the statutes should be submitted, through the Economic and Social Council, for approval by the General Assembly,

Recalling also resolution 426 (XVI) of 10 April 1981 of the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa, by which the Conference submitted the new statutes to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council,

Recalling further Council decision 1981/189 of 24 July 1981, by which it endorsed the new statutes of the institutes and recommended that the General Assembly should approve them at its thirty-sixth session, in order to enable the two institutes to become operational as soon as possible,

Noting General Assembly decision 36/450 of 18 December 1981, in which the Conference of Ministers of the Commission was requested to revise the draft statutes so that they would comply with the United Nations rules and procedures,

Recommends that the General Assembly should consider approval of the revised statutes of the Regional Institute for Population Studies at Accra and the Institut de formation et de recherche demographiques at Yaounde at its thirty-seventh session.

B Demographic data collection and analysis

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling its resolutions 1279 (XLIII) of 4 August 1967, 1672 (LII) of 2 June 1972 and 1763 (LIV) of 18 May 1973,

Taking note of the report of the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers on its second session and, in particular, of the decreasing shares of assistance being made available by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and other multilateral and bilateral donor agencies to States members of the Economic Commission for Africa and to the Commission itself for demographic data collection, processing, evaluation, analysis and dissemination,

Having considered the draft resolution recommended by the Economic Commission for Africa on demographic data collection and analysis,

Decides to transmit the following text to the General Assembly for consideration:

"The General Assembly

"1. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities to take the necessary measures to alleviate the current reduction resources for the regional population programme;

"2. Decides to allocate the necessary infrastructure posts to the Economic Commission for Africa to enable it to meet its increased responsibilities in the field of population."