3.Atitsthirty-fifth session, theGeneral Assembly adoptedresolution 35/29ot11Nov.ember 1980,inparagraph 18ofwhichitrequested theCounciltocontinue to consider, inconsultation withtheSpecial Committee, appropriate measures forco-ordination ofthepolicies andactivities ofthespecial.ized agencips andotherorgar..izations oftheUnitedNations systeminimplementing therelevantresolutions oftheGeneral Assembly.1.On23July1980,atitssecondregular sessionof1980,theEconomic andSocialCouncil adoptedresolution 1980/50~ entitled "Implementation oftheDeclaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial. Countries andPeoples andassistance totheoppressed peopleofSouthAfricaandtheirnational liberationmovement bythespecialized agencies andtheinternational institutions associatedwiththeUnitedNations". Inparagraph 13ofthatresolution, theCouncil requesteditsPresident tocontinue consultations onthesematters withthE"Chairman oftheSpecial Committee onthe-Situation withregardtotheImplementation ofthE"Declaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial. Countries andPeoples and theChairman oftheSpecial Committee onApartheid andtoreportthereontotheCouncil. 5.ThePresident oftheCouncil andtheChairman oftheSpecial Committee notedthat,inresponse totheappeals addre-ssed tothembytheGeneral Assembly, theEconomic andSocialCouncil andthe-Special Committee, several Governments andintergovernmental organizations hadundertaken toextendassistance intheeconomicandsocial.development ofZimbabwe. Furthermore, theynotedthatduringtheZimbabwe Conference onReconstruction ,andDevelopment, heldatSalisbury inMarch1981,pledgesofassistance totalling some$US1.8billion hadbeenmadeby31Governments and26international agencies. Thetwopresiding officers alsonotedthat,following theallocation of.$US5.6millionithadmadeforZimbabwetor1980-19Al,theGoverning CounciloftheUnitedNations Development Progr8DDlle(UNDP),atitstwenty-eighth sessioninJune1981,wouldbetakingupaproposal,submitted byitsAdministrator, forZimbabwe's firstcountry programme ofUNDPassistance, amounting to$US24.25million, withemphasis onruraldevelopment projE"cts. UNDPwouldalsoprovide anadditional $US1.6milliontoexpandand acceleratE" theNational Manpower Surveywhichithadundertaken inco-operation withtheInternational LabourOrganisation {ILO}. Thetwopresiding officers commended thE"efforts beingmadebyUNDP,inparticular thecontinuing initiative eXE"rcisE"d byitsAdministrator. Theyconsidered thatthestepstakensofar wereanencouraging bE"ginning ofaconcerted effortonthepartofthE"international community insupport ofthepeopleofthenewlyindependent country, andreiterated theirappealtoallconcerned toextE"ndorincrease theirassistance tothe Government ofZimbabwe toovercome thE"adverseeffectsoftheexploitation which theAfrican population ofthecountry hadsuffered undertheminority regime. 6.Thetwopresiding officers notedthat,inresponse totherelevant resolutions oftheUnitedNations bodiesconcerned, several agencies andorganizations had continued toexpand,invarying degrees, thevolumeandscopeoftheirassistance tothepeoplesintheremaining colonial Territories, particularly withinthe framework ofprogrammes ofassistance formulated byUNDP.Theyrecalled that UNDPhadfinanced, underthecombined resources oftheindicative planning figure andtheTrustFundforAssistance toColonial Countries andPeoples, 12projects ofassistance totheS~uthWestAfricaPeople's Organization (SWAPO) and6each totheAfrican National Congress (ANC)andthePan-Africanist Congress ofAzania (PAC)inthefieldsof'education, community development, postaland telecommunications training, agricultural training, healthservices andvocational training. Thepresiding officers notedfurtherthat,of'thecontributions and interests accrued undertheTrustFund,amounting to$US4.5million asof 31December 1980,morethan$US3.5million hadbeencommited toassistance projects forthesecondprogra:Dll'l1ing cycle.(1977-l98l) •Inaddition, theynotedthatUNDP wasfinancing nineprojects fromthecombined resources of'themdicative planning figureforNamibia andtheTrustFundatatotalcommitment of'$US5.4million and thatafurther 36projects, funded bytheUnitedNations Fundf'orNamibia, were beingadministered byUNDP. 7.Thetwopresiding officers notedwithsatisfaction that,underthE'lpadership of'theUnitedNations Council .f'orNamibia, assisted bytheUnitedNations Commissioner forNamibia, continuing efforts werebeingmadetoprepare various programmes ofassistance benefiting theNeQibians, inclosecollaboration with UNDPandanumberofspecialized agencies andotherorganizations of'theUnited Nations system. Whilecommending theincreasing levelofinternational co-operation inthatregard,thepresiding officers nevertheless considered thatthe assistance extended wasfarf'romadequate tomeetthepressing needsofthe Namibian peopleand,accordingly, theyappealed totheorganizations concerned to enlistwhatever resources wereavailable inordertoprovide Namibia withthe assistance required. TheprE"siding officers therefore calledf'orrenewedefforts tosecureanincreased flowofthefundsrequired inthepreparation ofextended programmes ofassistance and,inparticular, forthesupportofthemajorfunding institutions withintheUnitedNations systemtothatend.Theyurgedthose institutions totakestepstoremoveanyexisting constraints ordif'f'iculties ­ procedural orotherwise -soastoensuretheavailability of'theaddedresources required. Inthesamecontext, tht"Yemphasized thattheroletobeplayedbythe executive headsoftheinstitutions concerned wasofspecial importance. Theyhoped
**Analysis**
This text appears to be a report on the efforts of the United Nations and its agencies to provide assistance to newly independent countries, particularly Zimbabwe and Namibia, in terms of economic development, humanitarian aid, and international cooperation. The report highlights various initiatives and programs aimed at promoting the social and economic development of these countries, including projects in education, healthcare, agriculture, and infrastructure development.

**Category**
Economic development, Humanitarian aid and relief