General assembly thirty-seventh regular session panama, republic of panama

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   To adopt the amendments to Articles 78 and 80 of the General Standards to Govern the Operations of the General Secretariat, as follows:^10/
   

1. 
   The Secretary General shall designate the banking institutions in which the funds of the Organization and those entrusted to it shall be deposited. Regarding the designation of banking institutions for deposit of funds administered under the FEMCIDI Statutes by the IACD, the Secretary General shall take into account guidelines established by the IACD Management Board.
   

2. 
   Interest earned by the Regular Fund shall be credited to that fund, and interest earned by FEMCIDI shall be credited to FEMCIDI.
   

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   Interest earned by each Specific Fund or Trust Fund established under Articles 74 and 75 of these General Standards shall be credited to that Fund. However, for each Specific Fund and Trust Fund for which the donor has not otherwise provided the corresponding funds to cover the overhead for administrative support and technical supervision costs of the activities financed by that Fund, the interest earned shall be credited to the Regular Fund or to the IACD Fund for Operations established in the IACD Statutes, as the case may be, in the amount necessary to cover those costs the Service Account of Specific Funds established for Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR).
   

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

1. 
   To agree that the meetings of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development, must play a more active role in intersectoral coordination and sharing of experiences.
   

2. 
   To reiterate its commitment to continue strengthening those mechanisms for policy dialogue and partnership for development that assist member states in their efforts to achieve integral development and combat poverty.
   

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   To reiterate that the cooperation programs, projects, activities, and initiatives generated by member states, within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006–2009, must respond to the mandates of the General Assembly and the Summits of the Americas, and to the policies and guidelines established at ministerial meetings and/or meetings of the inter-American committees in order to ensure targeted implementation of partnership for development and the reinforcement of cooperation strategies arising therefrom.
   

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   To entrust the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI) with conducting a comprehensive examination of the operations and funding of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) and with presenting its conclusions and recommendations to CIDI in 2008. To this end, CEPCIDI will take into account the recommendations handed down by the relevant organs, in particular those of the Management Board of the IACD.
   

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   To remind the sectoral authorities that, through decisions adopted at their meetings held within the framework of CIDI, they may recommend modifications to the mandates in the areas of action established in the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006–2009. The modifications will be considered by CIDI for adoption and subsequent incorporation into the Strategic Plan.
   

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   To request authorities involved in the sectoral processes to ensure coordination with other member states in the preparation of ministerial meetings and meetings of the inter-American committees, with support from the General Secretariat and, in particular, the units and offices that serve as technical secretariats for those processes, so as to allow for substantive dialogue with a view to formulating policies, defining priorities, and developing activities.
   

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   To suggest to the sectoral authorities that, in preparing for, conducting, and following up on ministerial meetings and/or meetings of the inter-American committees, they give consideration to active participation by the relevant international organs, agencies, and entities, particularly those of the inter-American system, to enable member states to benefit from their skills, knowledge, and experiences in defining policies and in designing and implementing partnership-for-development programs, projects, and activities.
   

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   To instruct the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) and, in particular, its offices responsible for serving as technical secretariats for sectoral processes within CIDI to give preference to said processes in their activities and to ensure that this is reflected in any work plans and reports they present.
   

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   To instruct SEDI, in coordination with the Summits Secretariat, to support linkages between ministerial meetings and meetings of the inter-American committees and the Summits of the Americas process, as well as the distribution of information to the follow-up mechanisms of that process.
   

10. 
    To instruct SEDI to prepare a progress report on achievement of the objectives of the current Strategic Plan and present it to CIDI at its 13^th regular meeting, in order to facilitate CEPCIDI’s evaluation of the Plan.
    

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    To instruct CIDI to continue considering mechanisms and methods for furthering the process of strengthening policy dialogue and partnership for development, particularly as regards follow-up to the Summits process; the structure, representation, nature, and purpose of CIDI’s regular and special meetings and their relationship with CEPCIDI; and the role that could be played by national development and/or cooperation agencies or entities, and to submit its conclusions and recommendations to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session.
    

AG/RES. 2304 (XXXVII-O/07)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

That the Strategic Plan indicates that, in the spirit of partnership for development, national institutions taking part in cooperation activities will have to take into account the priority areas and the guidelines contained in the Strategic Plan, to ensure that the projects and activities related to the Plan are tied to mandates of the Summits, ministerial meetings, and/or meetings of the inter-American committees, and give priority to those of a multinational character;

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   To reiterate that technical cooperation for integral development programs, projects, activities, and initiatives generated by the member states must respond to the mandates of the General Assembly, in particular mandates of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006–2009, the Summits of the Americas, ministerial meetings, and/or meetings of the inter-American committees, and contribute especially to the elimination of extreme poverty, and that priority must be given to those of a multinational character, while continuing to recognize the importance of national projects to member states.
   

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   To recommend to member states that, to the extent possible, the cooperation activities they present in the areas of action of the Strategic Plan include, as elements in their formulation, implementation, and evaluation, the following: (a) civil society participation; (b) environmental considerations; (c) human resource development; and (d) gender equality and equity; and to instruct the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD), when it considers cooperation projects, prepares the preliminary programming proposal for the Special Multilateral Fund of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (FEMCIDI), and evaluates technical cooperation activities, to verify whether the projects have included those elements, when appropriate.
   

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   To recommend once again to the ministerial meetings and inter-American committees that they consider the formulation of projects that implement the mandates and political decisions referred to in the preceding operative paragraph, for timely presentation by a member state for financing from a variety of sources, including FEMCIDI.
   

4. 
   To urge all member states to contribute to FEMCIDI and, to the extent possible, increase their contributions to finance partnership-for-development activities.
   

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   To request the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) to conclude its consideration of the document “Criteria for Presentation, Selection, and Evaluation of Projects Financed by FEMCIDI” (CEPCIDI/SCSD/doc.252/04 rev. 10), by January 31, 2008.
   

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   To instruct CEPCIDI to continue, and if possible to expedite, the process of reflection and consultation on the current structure of partnership for development, and to include in this process a comprehensive review of the norms governing the matter in the OAS, in light of the cooperation needs of the states and the diverse capacities of each, and taking into account the structural needs within the General Secretariat.
   

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   To further instruct CEPCIDI, in the framework of the aforementioned consultation and review process, to initiate a dialogue on the possibility of implementing cooperation mechanisms and modalities that make the most efficient use of the capacities of the OAS as a multilateral organization and of the capacities of all the member states, through cooperation among states at different levels of development in projects of particular benefit to the relatively less developed countries.
   

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   To these ends, to request CEPCIDI to convene, by March 30, 2008, a special technical meeting at which national authorities and experts in cooperation will participate to consider the matter.
   

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   To reiterate its mandate to the IACD that it make special efforts to obtain additional financial and non-financial resources; and, in that connection, to request that the Agency, within its capabilities, issue guidelines and define strategies for raising additional funds to finance partnership-for-development activities. In this connection, to instruct the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) to present, by September 30, 2007, a proposed strategy for raising external funds and, in coordination with the Management Board, to arrange for its implementation.
   

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    To instruct the IACD to continue to foster increased collaboration and synergy among all areas of the General Secretariat that carry out cooperation activities financed with FEMCIDI resources or with resources from other sources, in particular activities whose content is linked to the Strategic Plan, and to report to CEPCIDI on a regular basis in that regard.
    

11. 
    To note the results of the third FEMCIDI project evaluation cycle conducted by the IACD (AICD/JD/doc.106/07).
    

12. 
    To entrust the partnership-for-development actors with using the findings of that evaluation of the projects and programs to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of the positive results of partnership-for-development activities and to support the mobilization of other resources.
    

13. 
    To instruct the General Secretariat to provide coordinated support to member states in the formulation, execution, and follow-up of cooperation activities.
    

14. 
    To further instruct the General Secretariat to consolidate, update, and distribute to member states, at least on a quarterly basis, information related to all cooperation projects that are proposed, evaluated, and carried out in the framework of the OAS, in order to have pertinent information for the reflection and consultation process mentioned in operative paragraph 6, and for decision-making.
    

15. 
    To instruct SEDI to work with the member states to achieve optimum technical quality in the projects.
    

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    In this regard, to instruct SEDI to organize as necessary, prior to the start of the 2008 FEMCIDI programming cycle, subregional coordination meetings, in order to support member states in the development and design of projects, preferably with a subregional focus, that will lead, inter alia, to improvements in the technical quality of projects, the sharing of successful experiences, and best practices that can be more broadly applied.
    

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

1. 
   To reiterate to the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) that it should evaluate the usefulness of holding more than one meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) each year, to enable procedural matters, particularly those that must be addressed prior to a General Assembly, to be dealt with separately from those issues requiring substantive dialogue.
   

2. 
   To reiterate to CEPCIDI that it should select, at least six months in advance, the specific topic that CIDI will consider during its next meeting, so that the member states may be properly informed about the topic that they will address and so that CEPCIDI and the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) may carry out the necessary preparatory work to facilitate the substantive policy dialogue that is sought.
   

3. 
   To invite the member states of the OAS to appoint representatives at the ministerial or equivalent level or high authorities associated with the topic under consideration, to attend the CIDI meetings, so that these meetings may give rise, at the policy level entrusted to CIDI in the OAS Charter, to the mandates, guidelines, and recommendations that should be implemented, and to follow up on the work of its subsidiary organs and of the General Secretariat.
   

4. 
   To request CEPCIDI to ensure, pursuant to section III of the Rules of Procedure of CIDI and in coordination with the member states of the Organization and the pertinent authorities of the General Secretariat, that steps are taken to promote substantive policy dialogue at the ministerial or equivalent level or with high authorities associated with the topic under consideration, aimed at formulating policies, defining priorities, and carrying out activities.
   

5. 
   To encourage the member states, with support from the OAS General Secretariat, to promote and foster, among their governments, the participation of representatives at the ministerial or equivalent level or of high authorities associated with the topic to be considered at CIDI meetings.
   

6. 
   To request CIDI to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session on the implementation of this resolution.
   

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,