27 July 1990

37th Plenary Meeting

1990/75. Final review and appraisal of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 43/27 of 18 November 1988, in which the Assembly decided that the final review and appraisal of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990 should be conducted at its forty-sixth session,

Noting with appreciation the reports of the Economic Commission for Africa on the progress in the implementation of the Programme of Action and on the preparations for the final review and evaluation of the Programme of Action,

Also noting with appreciation the work of the United Nations Steering Committee and the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the monitoring of the implementation of the Programme of Action,

Convinced that the final review and evaluation of the implementation of the Programme of Action by the General Assembly should be an occasion for an in-depth appraisal of the actions taken by all sides in the implementation of the Programme, as well as of the measures that are needed to sustain accelerated growth and development in Africa beyond 1991,

Convinced also of the need for States members of the Economic Commission for Africa to conduct a thorough assessment of the implementation of the Programme and that such an assessment should be as up to date as possible,

Concerned about the continuing deterioration in the economic and social conditions in Africa and the possibility of the continuation of such trends in the 1990s,

1. Recommends that mechanisms for the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Recovery and Development 1986-1990 be similar to those of the mid-term review of the Programme of Action and that for that purpose an ad hoc committee of the whole of the General Assembly be established to appraise the Programme of Action and propose measures for sustained development in Africa beyond 1991;

2. Decides that a special memorandum addressed to the proposed ad hoc committee of the whole of the General Assembly on the review and appraisal of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Recovery and Development 1986-1990 should be prepared by the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa at its seventeenth meeting, in May 1991, and that the draft of the special memorandum should be considered at an intergovernmental expert group meeting to be convened immediately before the meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole and the Conference of Ministers;

3. Invites the Executive Secretary of the Commission to send special multisectoral missions to all States members of the Commission early in the fourth quarter of 1990 to collect up-to-date information on the implementation of the Programme of Action, on the basis of which the special memorandum would be prepared;

4. Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the secretariat of the Commission the financial resources required for such special missions on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action;

5. Urges member States and their development and planning machineries to participate actively in the preparation of the special memorandum.