26 July 1991

32nd plenary meeting

Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1991-2000)

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling resolution 2 (IX) of 31 May 1989 of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry, concerning the proclamation of the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and the preparation of a programme for the Decade,

Recalling also resolution AHG/Res.180 (XXV) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twenty-fifth ordinary session, held at Addis Ababa in July 1989, on the proclamation of a second industrial development decade for Africa and on an Africa industrialization day,

Recalling further resolution GC.3/10 of 23 November 1989 of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on the second industrial development decade for Africa,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 44/237 of 22 December 1989, in which the Assembly proclaimed the period 1991-2000 the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and 20 November Africa Industrial Day,

Recalling also the report of the Secretary-General on the preparation of the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1991-2000), which contained a description of the progress made in national, subregional and regional preparations as well as in meeting the schedule adopted by the Conference of African Ministers of Industry at its ninth meeting and subsequently endorsed by the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session,

1. Requests the Conference of African Ministers of Industry to submit to the General Assembly, at its forty-sixth session, the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa, which is currently being finalized, together with the recommendations concerning the practical modalities of its implementation and monitoring and including modalities for the mobilization of funds needed to finance the programme at the national, subregional, regional and international levels;

2. Appeals to African countries and to African intergovernmental organizations, particularly financial institutions, to take the necessary measures to ensure the successful implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and to give priority to the mobilization of their own financial resources for the implementation and monitoring of the programme;

3. Appeals to the international community, particularly bilateral and multilateral funding institutions, to significantly increase their contributions to the industrial sector in African countries so as to ensure optimum implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Decade for Africa;

4. Recommends that the General Assembly provide the Economic Commission for Africa with adequate resources to enable it to assist African countries and organizations effectively in the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa;

5. Also recommends that the policy organs of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization significantly increase their regular budget resources allocated for the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa;

6. Appeals to the United Nations Development Programme to allocate adequate resources in the fifth programming cycle (1992-1996), under its Africa regional programme, to support activities of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa;

7. Requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, in cooperation with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity and the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, to take follow-up action to promote national, subregional and regional activities in support of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and submit a report on the implementation of the present resolution to the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa at its eighteenth meeting.