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Resolution 1. The economic recovery and development of Africa has been a priority concern for the United Nations since the mid-1980s when the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1/ was launched. In addition, the United Nations-New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, 2/ which followed in 1991, and the United Nations Systemnwide Special Initiative for the Implementation of the United Nations-New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990…

…level, should be designed under the leadership of recipient countries to ensure that African countries have ownership of their development programmes and the capacity to effectively coordinate international development efforts in a sustainable manner. Coordination and harmonization efforts should also add coherence among the various international initiatives established to provide assistance to Africa's overall development and utilize simple yet effective coordination mechanisms so as to alleviate the administrative and financial coordination burden on African Governments.