AG/RES. 1339 (XXV-O/95)

INFORMATION NETWORK TO STRENGTHEN THE PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE HEMISPHERE

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session, held on June 9, 1995)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

The section of the Report of the Permanent Council on the Strengthening of the OAS (AG/doc.3228/95) that pertains to the information network on development cooperation; and

Declaration AG/DEC. 1 (XX-E/94), "Commitment on a Partnership for Development and Struggle to Overcome Extreme Poverty," which calls for the study of a proposed "information network to integrate the wealth of knowledge possessed by governmental and nongovernmental organizations and institutions that provide cooperation for development in the Hemisphere, in order to encourage and support the sharing of experience and know-how among all countries in the region, and to help identify and coordinate supply, demand, and resources for addressing cooperation needs";

CONSIDERING:

That the member states have undertaken to "promote Partnership for Development as a fundamental objective of the OAS and as an ideal instrument for collectively supporting national development efforts and, particularly, for helping to overcome extreme poverty in the Hemisphere" [AG/DEC. 1 (XX-E/94)];

That the concept of a Partnership for Development approved by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session entails the participation of all member states and should be understood as an effort at hemispheric solidarity designed to mobilize and marshal resources to complement each country's development initiatives and policies; and

That the fundamental purpose of establishing an information network on development cooperation is to stimulate and support the exchange of experience and know-how among all the member states, and that such cooperation must spring primarily from the Organization's effort to integrate and systematize the information available to it both at the internal level and through the cooperation initiatives offered by the member states through their cooperation funds; and

TAKING NOTE of the concepts proposed by the Secretary General in the document "A New Vision of the OAS," especially Chapters IX, "Modernization of Technical Cooperation and the Internal Organization of the OAS", and XII, "Administrative Aspects," in Section D, Information Systems,

RESOLVES:

  1. To thank the Permanent Council for the work performed in this area by its Working Group on the Strengthening of the OAS, and to take note of its report.

  2. To instruct CIES and CIECC to establish a common database combining and systematizing the information available in the Organization on development cooperation with a view to possible establishment of an information network consonant with the Partnership for Development objectives and the future Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI).

  3. To instruct the General Secretariat to take the following steps as part of its efforts to modernize the Organization's information systems insofar as existing resources permit:

    a. Support prompt creation of the database on development cooperation and expedite the member states' access to such information by electronic means; and

    b. Present for consideration by the member states a work plan for development of a database. Such a database should be compatible with existing OAS databases and consider the necessary technical variants to permit possible linkage with other such systems.

  4. To direct that the mechanism charged with the transition to CIDI follow up on the present resolution.

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