FAO Conference resolutions

Resolution

5/77

Technical cooperation

programme

The Conference

Recalling

the basic mandate given to FAO in Article I.3(a) of its Constitution which provides that "...It shall also be the function of the Organization ... to furnish such technical assistance as governments may request";

Recalling

the warm welcome given by the 69th Session of the Council to the Director General's proposal for the establishment of a Technical Cooperation Programme within the Organization's Regular Programmer

Noting

that the Technical Cooperation Programme became operational or,

1 November 1976

and that, with the approval of nearly 190 projects, very substantial progress had already been achieved in its implementation during a relatively short period of one year;

Noting

also that the 72nd Session of the

Council

expressed general support of the manner in which the Technical Cooperation Programme has enabled the Organization to assist the developing countries in solving critical problems directly and more expeditiously;

Noting

likewise the

Director-General

's decision to carry out an evaluation of the Technical Cooperation Programme and the action already initiated by him in this respect;

Invites

the

Director-General

to make every effort to strengthen the Technical Cooperation Programme in accordance with the established criteria, with a view to making the technical competence of the Organization more readily and speedily available for the solution of the most pressing development needs of Member Nations;

Welcomes

the Director-General's proposed provision to this end in the 1978-79 Programme of Work and Budget;

(Adopted

1 December 1977

)

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