Report of the 15th meeting of the Resource Mobilization Committee (RMC) UNTACDA II: Abijan (Cote d'Ivoire) 16 - 18 November 1994

Abstract

On the problems encountered,in financing the support activities of UNTACDA-II: programme, emphasizing however that the programme's shortcomings were not only due to funding, problems. RMC's mandate as-defined at the last meeting of the Conference of Ministers in Addis Ababa in 1993 the following reasons which were the sources of RMC's difficulties: (i) with only one financing institution actually participating;in its activities, RMC could not create a dialogue with donors nor effectively coordinate donor actions for the UNTACDA. II programme; (ii) no support document for resource mobilization actions had been published or disseminated; (iii) the human and financial resources pledged were not provided; (iv) assistance received by the committee was suddenly interrupted in April 1992, which was the end of the project financed by UNDP to support the preparation of UNTACDA II; (v) finally,-the utmost importance of beneficiary and borrower responsibility in the resource mobilization process cannot be overemphasized.