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      Title :Follow-up to the World Summit for Children
      Document Type :Executive Board Decisions - Programme 



      Country :GlobalDocument Symbol/Series: 1993/12

      Year Published : 1993 PDF Link :
      OSEB Doctype : Executive Board Decisions
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On the recommendation of the Programme Committee,

The Executive Board,

Taking note of the "Progress report on the follow-up to the World Summit for 
Children" (E/ICEF/1993/12),

Recalling General Assembly resolution 47/199 of 22 December 1992,

Taking note of the "Consensus of Dakar" adopted at the International Conference 
on Assistance to African Children held in November 1992 and sponsored by the 
Organization of African Unity; the regional plan of action endorsed by the South 
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Conference on Children in South Asia 
in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in September 1992; the Pan-Arab Plan adopted at the 
meeting of the League of Arab States held in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 1992; 
and the outcome of the meetings of the ministers and other representatives of 
Latin American Governments in Mexico City in October 1992 and of the First 
Ladies of Latin America and the Caribbean States in Colombia in September 1992,

Taking note of the resolution on Child Care and Protection in the Islamic World 
adopted in April 1993 by the twenty-first Conference of Islamic Foreign 
Ministers, 

1. Urges that the personal involvement of heads of State or Government in the 
commitments of the World Summit for Children be maintained and strengthened; 

2. Encourages countries to examine their national programmes of action (NPAs) so 
as to identify feasible targets for achievement by mid-decade, develop annual 
action plans enabling NPA activities to be incorporated into the regular 
national budgetary process and develop plans and programmes to make national 
programmes operational at provincial, municipal and district levels;

3. Requests that collaboration with international and regional financial 
institutions be strengthened further to assure that NPAs are taken into account 
at relevant moments of the poverty reduction, lending and adjustment processes;

4. Invites UNICEF, donor countries, non-governmental organizations and other 
partners, in consultation with the host Government, to consider ways and means 
to strengthen the delivery of social services, capacity-building and empowerment 
in the implementation of NPAs and country programmes supported by UNICEF;

5. Requests the Executive Director to ensure that those follow-up activities of 
the World Summit for Children within the mandate of UNICEF be coordinated with 
the work of the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations, and 
that NPAs be integrated into action for sustainable development, also by taking 
them into account in the preparation, by interested Governments, of the country 
strategy note;

6. Invites donor countries and international and regional financial institutions 
in a position to do so to increase the share of official development assistance 
commitment to social priority sectors, and national Governments in a position to 
do so to increase the share of national budgetary allocations for the same 
sectors, so as to increase the proportion of resources devoted to basic 
education, primary health care, low-cost water supply and sanitation systems, 
responsible parenthood and family planning and nutrition programmes.