describing the main activities of OAS relating to IDCs, said special efforts were needed as IDCs showed many characteristics that produced vulnerability. Those characteristics included deficiencies of natural resources, restricted agricultural potential, limited domestic market size and high administrative costs per unit. Among the key areas of activities of the current programme of OAS, she mentioned employment, tourism, agricultural development, management, education and taxation. She said that OAS was fully familiar with the particular range of problems as over a third of the member States of OAS were island nations of the Caribbean. In the future, she added, OAS would work towards a programme that would stress aid effectiveness, innovative mechanisms and simplification and standardization of aid commitment procedures. A/CONF.147/5 TD/B/AC.46/4 page 14 36. The representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mentioned that UNDP had for many years recognized the special needs of IDCs and the disadvantages they faced in their development efforts. As a result, the UNDP Governing Council had already, during the fourth programming cycle, approved supplementary points for IDCs in their IPF allocation. He mentioned further that IDCs had access to the Special Measures resources and to inter-country programming funds. In the Pacific and the Caribbean region, multi-island IPFs had been created. 37. The representative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) noted that UNIDO did not help the IDCs as a special group of countries but that it assisted them within the framework of several special programmes such as the industrial development decade for Africa, industrial development co-operation among developing countries, integration of women in industrial development, the special programme for industrial development for Asia and the Pacific, regional industrial development co-operation for Latin America and the Caribbean and special programmes for the Arab countries. He further pointed out that those programmes covered such area6 as 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the activities and programs of international organizations, such as the Organization of American States (OAS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), aimed at supporting the development of Island Developing Countries (IDCs). The text highlights the specific challenges faced by IDCs, such as natural resource deficiencies, limited agricultural potential, and high administrative costs, and the need for special efforts to address these issues.

**Category**
Economic development, Employment, Industry, Agriculture, forestry and fishing