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      Title :The role of UNICEF in World Summit follow-up
      Document Type :Executive Board Decisions - Programme 



      Country :GlobalDocument Symbol/Series: 1991 / 10

      Year Published : 1991 PDF Link :
      OSEB Doctype : Executive Board Decisions
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On the recommendation of the Programme Committee,

The Executive Board,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 45/217 on the "World Summit for Children",

Recalling also Executive Board decisions 1990/2 on "Strategies for children" and 
1990/12 on the "World Summit for Children",

Recalling further General Assembly resolution 45/104 on the "Convention on the 
Rights of the Child", in which the General Assembly welcomed the successful 
conclusion of the World Summit for Children,

Emphasizing the importance of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection 
and Development of Children and Plan of Action as an embodiment of the joint 
commitment of the world community to offer children a better future and to 
promote the full development of their potential,

Commending UNICEF for the valuable and effective role which it played as the 
secretariat of the World Summit for Children,

Recognizing that the goals and strategies adopted by the World Summit for 
Children reinforce those previously approved by the Executive Board in decision 
1990/2,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 45/217, in which the Assembly decided to 
consider at its forty-seventh session the question of implementation of the 
Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and its Plan 
of Action, in particular the response of the United Nations system, and 
requesting the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly, through the 
Economic and Social Council at its first and second regular sessions of 1992, at 
its forty-seventh session on the implementation of that decision,

Having considered the report "Programme of action for achieving the goals for 
children and development in the 1990s: A UNICEF response to the Declaration and 
Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children" (E/ICEF/1991/12),

1. Welcomes the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit for 
Children and recognizes that they contribute substantially to a framework for 
national and international action in favour of children in a wide development 
context;

2. Urges, in concurrence with General Assembly resolution 45/217, all States and 
other members of the international community to work for the achievement of the 
goals and objectives endorsed in the World Declaration on the Survival, 
Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action as an integral 
part of their national plans and international cooperation;

3. Urges further all countries and multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental 
organizations to make available the resources for the purpose of achieving the 
Summit goals, and encourages them to re-examine their relevant policies and 
priorities in the context of the goals and objectives adopted by the World 
Summit for Children;

4. Requests the Executive Director to ensure that UNICEF, working under the 
leadership of the Secretary-General and guided by the Director-General for 
Development and International Economic Cooperation and in cooperation with other 
relevant United Nations agencies, as an integrated part of its regular 
activities, provides full support to developing countries within its mandate, 
comparative advantage and resources, for the achievement of objectives contained 
in the Declaration and the Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit for 
Children;

5. Also requests the Executive Director to provide the Executive Board, at its 
regular session in 1992, with an analysis, as called for in paragraph 35 (v) of 
the Plan of Action, of the follow-up to the Summit Declaration and Plan of 
Action and to place that analysis in the wide context of progress in 
international economic and social cooperation for development called for in the 
Declaration of the eighteenth Special Session on Economic Cooperation and the 
International Development Strategy, the UNICEF strategy for children in the 
1990s and the UNICEF medium-term plan;

6. Invites the Executive Director to prepare and to circulate early suggestions 
on the manner of providing information on plans and action undertaken by 
individual countries and international bodies, so as to facilitate and make more 
rewarding the task accorded to UNICEF pursuant to paragraph 35 (v) of the Plan 
of Action.