At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly adopted resolution 61/235, in
which it endorsed the decision of the Committee for Programme Coordination
requesting the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to conduct an in-depth
evaluation of United Nations support for the least developed countries, landlocked
developing countries, small island developing States and Africa, for the
consideration of the Committee at its forty-ninth session, in 2009.
The present final report incorporates comments received from the Office of the
High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing
Countries and Small Island Developing States and parts of the United Nations
system supporting the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), which
are reflected in italics.
