. -ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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E/CN.14/709/A~d.1

15 March 1979

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CONFERENCE DOCUMENT

ECONOMIC COI~IISSI'JN FOR AFRICA Fourteenth session

Fifth meeting of the Conference of Ministers

3abat, 20-29 March 1979

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ansau Service

Africa de l'Afrique

ECA OPEPATIONAL ?~OGP~ 1979-1981

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E/CN.14/709/Add.l

ECA OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME 1']79 - 1981

1. The main document. E/CN.14/709 provides information on the planned programae which ECA, as an operational agency, expects to deliver during the three-year period 1979/81.

2. This planned progr&.IDl~, as delineated in T~b18s 1 through 5 of the main docu- mcnti, amounts to $US 30,811,835. Additionally, paragraph J2 informs that continu- ing discussion with f'und.Lng sources both inside and outside the United Nations system is likely to prodUC0 total resourCeS of $us42 million Over the three-year period 1979/81. As negot.Lat.Lons , in this regard, have been underway for some time and as these negotiations are, to a large extent, conducted on an individual project baais, the secretariat has a pretty fair idee. as to how the bulk of this $US42

million will ult:iJoat"ly be proeramn"d. Indeed, as Table 1 indicates, approximately

$US31 million out of this $US42 r.rl.llion has already been pr-ograrmicd, The programm- ing of the remaining $USll million is underway and is expected to be completed soon.

3. When this has been done, the planned programme of technical co-operation of

$us42 million will be co-equal to known r csourccs. Put another way, the prograrnme will be tailor"d to fit known resources which are clearly Lnadcquat.c to meet

known needs as derived fron the ECA operatd.ona.l, progrnmac of work.

4. In terms of the development needs of the Africa region reflected in ECA's operational. programme of work, the resource reqair8Uents to bridge the gap between

to~~l available resourCes and total needs have been estimated at &round $US30 to 35 nillion which is more or l~~s in line with the size of thc resource gap identified at the Lagos Pledging Conference in 1977. However, in terms of the mobilization of resources, what is being solicited from Africa.n governments attending this Conference is the much more modest figure of $USl3 million. While this sum is far less than the actual resource gap, it is the gap Which the secretariat feels can reasonably be acconnnodated bearing in mind the limitations of the prevailing human resource capacity of EGA. As this capacity cannot be appreciably expanded over the next bienniun because of the Becretar-y General's injunction to keep the growth of the regular budget as clOSe to ZeI'Q as possible, the secretariat considers that it can plan, develop, implement and monitor a comprehensive extra-budgetary programme of

technical co-operatioL of no more than roughly $US55 million over the three-year period 1979/81.

5. As e. r-csul.t of 't.hc cur-r-errt exercise of programming the $us42 million mentioned in paragraph 2, the secretariat has'been able to link the resource gap to several projects of strategic importance in the drive for self-reliance and self-sustain1~g

endogenous growth.

6. Th<ese projects are listed in the attachod table. The.v corapz-Lso r

(a) on- cingrojects, which hQVG alre~dy b~0n described in the addendum I of document E cN.l 721, and which ar", currently financed from resources provided by African governments to the Unikd Nations lrust Fund for African Development as well as from finB.ncial contributions by other funding sources. These other funding

sources have been attr~cted to \;1ITE'j,D not only by vi.r-tue of the intrinsic inportnl1ce of the proj~cts but also b~virtuc uf ~b~ fact t~at African goverr~lents have then- selves d510l1struted a ccrJDitbent to these projects;

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(b) new projects which fall squarely amongst; the priorities establiShed by the-Commission.

7. Th" value of these projects totals $1]855,391,385 out of which available and anticipat'ed resources are $U842,365,193. This leaves a gap of $U813, 026,192 to' be filled. It is f'rOLl th8 pledges of Af'rican govermnents th'lt this gap will be

filled.

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ECA OPEP.ATIONAL PROGRA~,~ 1979-81 THE RESOlffiCE GAP SUMI,mnZED

(In United States Dollars) I. ESTINATED PLANNING RESOURCES

Total

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II. LESS RFSOmCJ<; P.EOUIREl!JEl!T":

III. RESOut>:C·EG.'.P TO BE FINiJTCED :BY AFRIC:,!T GO\TBRi-JriZUrrs 2/

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OI'[:,:,ni~~,tion'".ritbin the "Jnit80~

Nr:t.ionr ^SystUill

Donor Govcrnn;.:.:.'nts <::nd Org:J.ni?~:,tion2

Uni ted N,',ti or»: Trus"::. Funcl for

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33,400,°.00 7,988,300 .~_~.(rL"-'..§9).

'!.2,c:65,19~

55 ~91 cPS

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1^J, 025 192

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10,000,000 1l,000,OOO 12,WO,OCO 2,')138,300 2,700,000 . 2,7-00,000

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13,565,193 13,700,000 15,100,000

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1/ The: re"o1ircc;.:. ehol"!D :':.E-~ avai Lr bl c for pLarm i.n.; f'r-orn t ho United N_'.tion2, Trust Fund for IJ~Tic,,~.nDevolopfilGnt _h.~.Vi] beer; limi_~8d. to thc o cch r-os.cur-c c s on h.:·,.nrl ,'.t 31 Dcc cmber- 1970.

2/ _Th;~ fillinG of the r-osource _g,~,p nay "be concid cr-ed in the f'o Ll owing \'iay:

Pledge:,'; in"tb(~ form of c r.ah 'm:-~ee ..:..:t :~nd subs,:;quent to the: L,".goG Pledginc Conf'cr-cno o L82£.:~...crrh r-oceive d -~.{~~i'inf~t p1'2dCOt;

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Neu pledgeE \'0 be lIdo (1980-1')81)

Rceour-c o Gap

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4,221,241 -lt634._1~3 -2,587,0/:.8 }O,139,144 13,026,192

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EOA OPERATIONAL PROGlli,Y&ffi 1979-1981 RESOURCE GAP

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611,700 231,700 lUO,OOO 180.000 :\g;ricul ture

1. Regional Food Plan for Africa

2. Interr8giolli~1 co-operation aIm trade in food

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Sub-total

431,700 51,7°0 200,0(,0

200,000

180,000

180,000 Industry

3. Chemical Industry Development Prcgra~me Lt- Es tab.l Lsnmerrt of an African Regiollil1 Centre

for Industrial Design and YJanuf~cturing

5. Construotion and Building Materials Industry Development Programme

6. i'letal and. Engineering Industries Development Sub-total

1,676,646 503,746 655,900 517,000

~l50,000 50,000 150,000 250,000 695,800 292,000 288,000 115,800 1,050,000 9b,700 415,000 536,300 3,872,446 944,446 1,508,900 1,419,100

~atural Resources

7. First Regional Conf'er-ence on the Develop- ment and UtilizCltion of Mi!wral Resources in Africa

8. African Miner~l Resourceo Centres 9. R8giol~11 Seillin~r on Sol~r Ener67

82,000 1,845,700 50,000

82,000 232,000 50,000

863,700 75 0,000 Sub-total

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In United States dollars

150,000 - 62,000 83.000

400,000 - 177,000 223,000

1,400,000 185,500 620,250 594,250 2,298,410 358,300 998,160 941,950 8,760,256 1,898,446 3,570,760 3,291,050 1,226,436 265,783 499,906 460,747 9,986,692 2,164,229 4,070,666 3,751,797 Public AdministI'tltion, !~an...gement and

lfanpower DeveloPment

10. Sub-regional Graduate School of Manpower Development Business r.anagenent and Finance 11. Africen Insti t1>l;0 for Ei ghe^r- Teohnical

'I'r-cdnlll; and Research Sub-total Total, for projects

Total, for programme suppcrt oosts Total, ongoing projeots

(ii) Nnw _proj8ct~

Agriculture

1. Establishment of a Regional Centre for Current Agricultural Research Informa- tion Systems in Africa (CARIS)

2. Regional Institute for Integrated Rural Development

Sub-total Industry

3. Esta~lishment of an African Centre for Consulting Engineering and Management

Total

898,410

250,000

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l2l2.

172,800

1980

377 ,910

115,000

1.981

347,700

135,000

50,000 4. Prefeasibility Studies for

multinational institutions industrial oo-operat~on in

Sub-total

proposed for promoting

basic industries 100jOOO - 32,000 63,000

i50~OOO - ·32,000 118,000

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5. Establishment of an African 11etal Exohange InternRtional Trade and Finanoe

6. Feasibility Studies on the establishment of multinaticnal marketing enterprises

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8.

Afrioan Trade Direotory

Workshop to bring together buyers and sellers of food produots

Total 200,000

50,000 100,000

200,000

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~.l,000 .

33,000 50,000

40,000

1981 159,000.

17,000

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160,000

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9· Es~abliBhment of a Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Afrioa

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50,000 - 39! 000 11! 0('0

600,000 - 203,000 397;000

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Social Development Total 1979 1980 19Jl

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11.

African Centre for Applied Research iqnc1 'TrCj'i~;^{ng in} Social Development

Data Bank

Sub-total

500 000 200 000 700 000

225 000 275 aGO l3S 000 62 000 363 000 337

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Natural Resources

12. Marino T~chnology Institutes

13. Manpower Developments in the field of Fuel Science and Technology

14. Solar Energy Development Programme

15. Manufacturing of Electrical Equipment: Prefeasibility s\ujy

16. Manpower for Surveying and Mapping

Sub-total Transport, Communications and Tourism

17. Multinational Training Institutions for Transport Specialists

13. Programme of the Union of African Railways 19. Regional Satellite System

20. Educational Satellite Broadcasting Experiment

21. Institutes for Education and Trainin~ in Communications Sub-total

SOD 000

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50 000

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250 000

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50 000

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70 000

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920 000

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635 000

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Sub-total 25., Network of Open Universities

24.. =-~xpanded Training and Fo lLows.ii.p Pr-ogr-amme for A.frica

.~ub:l:.~r: ~~~~~i~~r;._:..t_~on, Han::-fh~:~~~~t and H~.r:lT'C?_'wI~I Df~~101)!~~ep_t,

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j»tal 1979

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150,000

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250,000

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1,80'],000

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200,000

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2,400,000

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Ene t ructionaL I"'~8tf}.:.~it3..1s and for Technological Education CEntre' on

EguipJ7lent

22" nanpo\·;ur d~,;vel.opment of ZiJ;jbabwe nati onalst

Lnt.er-rishi.p :f·rog'raDme for officials of the Patriotic Front in developrlent plB.nninz and policy

23.

SDcj.9_:'~S:~.£.C2!!'.1~iE-.T~t::<~e_:l!ch~d Planninr

1,150,000

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"50,000

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8,005,000

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1,120,700

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9,12,5,700

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19,112,392 2,164,229 8,131,346 8,816,817 6,086,200 1,425,200 2,438,950 2,222,050 13,02G,19C' 739,029 5,692,396 6,59^1,,767.

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sosio-economic surveys and studieB

~.2~~~S--92_-_o£~rE,tio£-

270 Gp0ciRl provision for Multin~tlonalProgram8ing and Operational C8ntres (NULPOCs)

!ea?ibili_~y_S_t.':'.::.l~

28. Feasibility etudies and Inv8stG8nt Pro~otionUnit Total, for projects

1'otal, for progr"'"Ge support costs Total, new projects

B. Total resource rc(~ircments (on-going plus new projects)

Le,3S: ava'iLab Le resources

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500,000 ,225,000 275,000