Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010
2009
Details
SymbolE/RES/2009/31
TitleImplementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010
Summary
Remains concerned about the uneven and insufficient progress achieved in the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 at a time when the international community has embarked on the preparation for the 4th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries; expresses its deep concern that the number of people living in extreme poverty remains significantly high in the least developed countries, while an increasing number of people are at risk of malnutrition, in particular children and women, and recognizes that there are important linkages between development, poverty eradication and gender equality; urges the least developed countries to strengthen country ownership in the implementation of the Programme of Action by, inter alia, translating its goals and targets into specific measures within their national development frameworks and poverty eradication strategies; urges development partners to fully implement, in a timely manner, commitments in the Programme of Action and to exercise individual best efforts to continue to increase their financial and technical support for its implementation; requests the Secretary-General to continue to take appropriate measures for the preparation for the 4th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries as well as for the implementation of the advocacy strategy on the effective and timely implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, in coordination with all relevant stakeholders; requests also the Secretary-General to ensure the active involvement of the organizations of the UN System in the preparatory process for the Conference in a coordinated and coherent manner, inter alia, by making use of the existing coordination mechanisms of the UN System.
Action note2009-07-31
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 45th plenary meeting
Related resourceE/2009/INF/2/Add.1
DraftE/2009/L.39
Date2009-08-21
Notes
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2009 (Geneva, 6-31 July 2009) - E/2009/INF/2/Add.1 - 21 Aug. 2009 - p. 92-95.