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AG/RES. 1628 (XXIX-O/99)
FELLOWSHIP AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
(Resolution adopted at the first plenary session, held on June 7, 1999)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs (CP/doc.3205/99);
RECALLING its resolutions AG/RES. 1277 (XXIV-O/94), AG/RES. 1317 (XXV-O/95), AG/RES. 1381 (XXVI-O/96), and AG/RES. 1531 (XXVII-O/97), on the program-budget of the Organization, specifically the sections corresponding to fellowships, as well as its resolutions AG/RES. 1460 (XXVII-O/97) and AG/RES. 1582 (XXVIII-O/98), on the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs;
BEARING IN MIND the recommendations of the Meeting of the Working Group to Study the Fellowship and Training Programs with Authorities Responsible for Training and Fellowships, held on April 28 and 29, 1997 (GT/BECAP-28/97 rev. 2);
CONSIDERING that the Permanent Council, through its resolution CP/RES. 740 (1179/98), approved the "Manual of Procedures of Fellowship and Training Programs for the Organization of American States";
CONSIDERING ALSO that, through resolutions AG/RES. 1460 (XXVII-O/97) and AG/RES. 1582 (XXVIII-O/98), the General Assembly requested the Permanent Council to complete its study on the establishment and financing of a Capital Fund as one of the instruments to finance the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs, and that the General Secretariat presented the document "Preliminary Draft Statutes of the OAS Capital Fund for Fellowships" (CP/doc.3002/98) to the Permanent Council for its consideration;
RECALLING ALSO that, through its resolution AG/RES. 1531 (XXVII-O/97), the General Assembly authorized the deposit, at the end of fiscal year 1998, of any available unused or deobligated funds from the resources of the Fellowship Program, object 3; and
BEARING IN MIND the "Report on the Budget Execution and Transfers of Appropriations between Chapters of the Regular Fund as of December 31, 1998" (CP/doc.3143/99), which sets the amount of US$415,941 in order to create the capital subfund for the Fellowship Program,
RESOLVES:
1. To acknowledge the establishment of the Capital Fund as one of the instruments to finance the fellowship and training programs, in accordance with its resolution AG/RES. 1531 (XXVII-O/97).
2. To request the Permanent Council1/ to review and approve the Statutes of the Capital Fund for OAS Fellowship and Training Programs, by October 1, 1999. Those statutes should include provisions for fund-raising activities to be initiated as soon as statutes are in force.
3. To instruct the General Secretariat to deposit into the Capital Fund any available unused or deobligated funds from the resources of the fellowship program that accrue during 1999.
4. To invite the member states, the permanent observers, and other states to make contributions on a voluntary basis to the Capital Fund for OAS Fellowship and Training Programs.
5. To instruct the Secretary General, within allocated resources approved in the program-budget and other resources, and taking into account operative paragraph 2, to begin immediately fund raising activities, such as proposal writing, to promote private-sector donations to the Capital Fund for OAS Fellowship and Training Programs and present each year by the end of March a detailed report on the results.
6. To request the Permanent Council1/ to consider the advisability of holding and, if it so deems, of convening, in the second half of the year 2000, a special meeting of authorities of the member states responsible for training and fellowships, with a view to proposing a plan of action for the more effective use of the resources of the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs and for increasing their impact on human resource development in the region for the 21st century, taking into account the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development and the Inter-American Cooperation Programs.
7. To request the Permanent Council1/ to present a report on compliance with this resolution to the General Assembly at its thirtieth regular session.
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. When the Statute of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) comes into force, this mandate will correspond to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI).
