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Commissioner to develop procedures to ensure that programme management, programme delivery and financial control are guided by these principles;

(h) Took note with appreciation of the report on UNHCR evaluation of assistance activities (EC/SC.2/31) and reiterated its full support to the strengthening of the quality and scope of evaluation activities particularly in respect of assistance policy, areas of major spending, relevance to durable solutions and essential needs;

(i) Recommended that the experience gained and lessons learned by UNHCR from programme evaluations should further be refined to enhance their value in the planning of future assistance programmes and training activities;

(j) Commended the efforts made by the High Commissioner to introduce modern management systems, planning methods and revised procedures for the purchases of supplies and food aid and, to further improve and strengthen the capacity of his Office to provide technical support services for the planning and implementation of assistance programmes;

(k) Welcomed the measures taken by the High Commissioner to improve and strengthen the management of projects by implementing partners and encouraged the development and application of guidelines and procedures and the organization of training in order to assist such partners;

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Considered it advisable for governments to grant the High Commissioner the most favourable legal rate of exchange for all financial transactions relating to his humanitarian operations in favour of refugees and returnees;

(m) Called upon the High Commissioner, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and in conformity with the usual practice of the High Commissioner, to continue assistance to refugees under the care of national liberation movements recognized by OAU and the United Nations;

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UNHCR's role in promoting durable solutions

(a) Welcomed the High Commissioner's integrated approach to refugee problems through each phase in the life cycle of a refugee situation: beginning from early warning, emergency preparedness, contingency planning, emergency relief operations, post-emergency care and maintenance, intermediate self-support and self-sufficiency activities and leading as rapidly as possible to a durable solution, through voluntary repatriation, local integration in countries of first asylum or resettlement in third countries;

(b) Took note of the relevant sections of document A/AC.96/677 (Part I) relating to the search for durable solutions; commended the High Commissioner's initiatives in this area and reaffirmed its strong support for the measures undertaken to give renewed impetus and coherence to the promotion of durable solutions, in particular voluntary repatriation;

(c)

Appealed to Governments to continue providing all possible support to the High Commissioner by taking concrete measures to create and promote conditions conducive to the attainment of durable solutions;

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