Community action
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Date:
5 December 1963
XVIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
1915. Community action
1. Affirms that community action is a valuable and effective instrument for achieving economic and social development;
2. Invites Member States to make the fullest and best possible use of community action in their efforts to promote economic and social development, especially in sectors where there is a marginally employed population and in co-ordination with land reform;
3. Requests the Secretary-General, when establishing the activities of the Economic Projections and Programming Centre, to suggest the desirability of including community action in the formulation of plans and programmes of economic development for the developing countries;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to give special attention to the present and possible future contribution of community action towards the attainment of the objectives of the United Nations Development Decade and to prepare regular reports on the progress of community action in the developing countries, with special reference to the exchange of information on experience and methods in connexion with the various types of community action;
5. Recommends the Member States, the specialized agencies and other international bodies to give special attention to the provision of technical and financial assistance to those countries which request it for the purpose of planning and executing economic and social development schemes, especially in connexion with land reform, that make use of community action;
6. Requests the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, the Special Fund and other international agencies providing technical and financial assistance to help Governments in preparing community development programmes as part of their national development-including projects for the establishment of rural centres to supply tools and equipment, to carry out research and provide training - in order to make programmes of community action as effective as possible.
1274th plenary meeting,5 December 1963.
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