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



      Country :GlobalDocument Symbol/Series: 1994/A/2

      Year Published : 1994 PDF Link :
      OSEB Doctype : Executive Board Decisions
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Executive Summary:



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The Executive Board

1. Invites all countries to review their national programmes of action (NPAs) to 
ensure that the mid-decade goals are appropriately incorporated into their 
national planning processes, while taking into account long-term sustainability, 
and that sufficient priority and resources be devoted to their achievement;

2. Acknowledges its decision 1993/12 (E/ICEF/1993/14), which invited donor 
countries and international financial institutions in a position to do so to 
increase and sustain their share of official development assistance (ODA) 
commitment to social priority sectors, and national Governments in a position to 
do so to increase their share of national budgetary allocations for the same 
sectors, bearing in mind, as appropriate, the levels of 20 per cent of total ODA 
and national budgetary allocations for those sectors recommended in the 1992 
Human Development Report;

3. Invites the Economic and Social Council to discuss thoroughly the concept of 
"20/20", stressing in particular poverty eradication within the context of 
sustainable development;

4. Recommends that those countries which have not already done so establish 
mechanisms for monitoring progress towards the goals of their NPAs, including 
appropriate high-level meetings to review the state of progress, with the 
participation of all sectors of civil society, including the mass media;

5. Urges the Preparatory Committee of the World Summit for Social Development to 
take into account the Declaration and Plan of Action of the World Summit for 
Children in its preparatory draft documents and notes that the Social Summit 
provides an occasion for the nations of the world to report on the progress 
being made in keeping the promises made for children at the Children's Summit, 
with special reference to progress being made towards the mid-decade goals;

6. Reiterates the request made to the Secretary-General at the World Summit for 
Children to arrange for a mid-decade review of progress being made towards 
implementation of the commitments of the Declaration and Plan of Action of the 
Summit.