Note on information needs for global monitoring of the substantial new programme of action

Abstract

The paper examines the substantial new programme of action for the 1980’s for the least developed countries (SNPA), was adopted by the United Nations conference on the least developed countries in Paris on September 14, 1981. The full text of the SNPA is contained in document A/CONF.104/22, and is available at this meeting. The SNPA itself, as well as general assembly resolution 36/194 which endorsed it, stress the importance of monitoring progress in the implementation of the SNPA to maintain the momentum of commitments made by the international community and to promote the implementation of the plans and programmes of the least developed countries.