2. Welcomes the role played by the Inter-Agency Co-ordinating Committee, under ECA as the lead agency, in co-ordinating activities and its contribution towards the objectives of the Decade; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with resources to enable it to organize the fifth Conference of African Ministers of Transport, Communications and Planning in 1986; 4. Also requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Commission sufficient financial resources to enable it to organize co- financing meetings for certain specific regional projects and projects located in corridors affording access to the sea for land-locked countries; 6/ See resolution 544 (XX). 5. Requests the Executive Secretary of ECA: (a) To organize in collaboration with other United Nations bodies and African intergovernmental organizations, at least two co-financing meetings a year, until the end of the Decade for the purpose of submitting certain specific regional projects and transport corridor projects to appropriate donor countries and financial institutions; (b) To intensify efforts to contact as many donor countries and financial institutions as possible to promote the Decade programme; 6. Reiterates the appeals previously made to donor countries and international financial institutions to give increased financial support to the second phase programme and to accord particular attention to the financing of regional projects and projects related to the maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructures, training and technical assistance, and projects in corridors providing access to the sea for land-locked countries. G Appointment of MULPOC Directors 77 The Economic and Social Council, Taking note of the fact that most of the Multinational Programming and Operational Centres (MULPOCs) of the Economic Commission for Africa currently have interim rather than titular Directors, Conscious of the importance of the economic role of the MULPOCs for subregional co-operation and integration and of the need for them to be 
**Analysis**
The text appears to focus on the coordination of economic activities and projects in Africa, with a specific emphasis on transport, communication, and planning. The Decade referred to is likely the United Nations Decade for African Development, which was declared in 1979. The text mentions the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its role in coordinating activities, as well as the need for financial support from donor countries and international financial institutions.

**Category**
Transport and communication, Economic development