United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development

Takes note of the recent launch of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation; invites all Member States, the funds, programmes and agencies of the UN system, the Bretton Woods institutions, civil society, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders to support the programmes and activities of the UN Public-Private Alliance; stresses that activities of the funds and programmes and the specialized agencies of the UN system at the country level in support of the UN Public-Private Alliance should be part of the implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework; invites Madagascar and the Dominican Republic to conduct an evaluation of the existing capacities of the relevant mechanisms for promoting and fast-tracking public-private partnerships; invites the organizations of the UN system and the Bretton Woods institutions that have established public-private partnership offices to assist in advocacy and in facilitating partnerships for sustainable rural development; reaffirms its resolve to create an environment that is conducive to sustainable development and the elimination of poverty; calls for further dissemination of information and strengthening of global advocacy in favour of the pilot countries; requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2009 on the implementation of the work of the UN Public-Private Alliance.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2007, New York, 17 and 22 Jan., 6, 9 and 15 Feb., 2 and 15 Mar. and 16 Apr. 2007; resumed organizational session for 2007, New York, 25 and 26 Apr. and 24 May 2007, substantive session of 2007, Geneva, 2-27 July 2007, resumed substantive session of 2007, New York, 4 and 17 Oct. 2007 - E/2007/99 - p. 95-96 - (ESCOR, 2007, Suppl. no. 1).