United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.

Encourages the Fund to continue: (a) to build up the capacity to respond to national, regional, interregional and global needs in the field of drug abuse control; (b) to extend systematic and sustained assistance to countries and regions, with particular attention to developing ones, at their request, so as to enable them to combat more effectively their drug abuse problems through the formulation and execution of technical co-operation activities, the direct monitoring of the implementation of projects and programmes, the close supervision of the execution of projects and programmes, the evaluation of the results achieved, the designation, as appropriate, of executing agencies, including Government institutions and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, fund-raising and the proper management of the resources of the Fund; (c) to play its important role in the UN System as an effective operational instrument to further the implementation of policy recommendations to deal with drug abuse and to act as an innovative and catalytic agent on the UN System as a whole; decides that the Executive Director of the Fund shall report regularly on the activities and programmes of the Fund to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and to the Economic and Social Council when the Council considers the report of the Commission; requests the Executive Director of the Fund to take the necessary steps to strengthen its technical capability and enhance its effectiveness and incisiveness in the delivery of drug abuse control programmes; appeals to Governments to continue and to substantially increase their contributions to the Fund.

Adopted without vote, 14th meeting

Adopted at the 14th plenary meeting, 26 May 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions / adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1987, 4-29 May 1987. - E/1987/INF/5. - 10 June 1987. - p. 54-57. - Issued in ESCOR, 1987, Suppl. no. 1.