This resolution was adopted by consensus, after tough negotiations, particularly on the question of the restitution of cultural property during the 209th session of UNESCO's Executive Board.

It provides for the launch of a flagship program to repatriate cultural heritage of African countries illicitly held in several countries around the world.

The text requests the "Director-General to allocate an adequate level of UNESCO resources and capacities for the implementation of the Global Priority Africa through an operational strategy".

The resolution also provides for the allocation of sufficient qualified human resources in the UNESCO offices deployed on the continent, which is an essential prerequisite for the effective and efficient implementation of Global Priority Africa.

The Covid-19 crisis occupies an important place in this resolution, which requests that the Secretariat should anticipate "the inevitable effects resulting from the global health crisis" by setting up a mechanism to ensure the sustainability of priority funding for UNESCO's program in the countries of the continent seriously affected by the crisis, foremost among which are African countries".

The resolution also calls for assistance to African member States to "conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources".

With regard to the preservation of Africa's cultural and natural heritage, the resolution provides for "strengthening collaboration between the World Heritage Centre and the African World Heritage Fund", an entity of the African Union.

In a statement before the Executive Board, at the end of this adoption, Morocco’s permanent delegate to Unesco, ambassador Samir Addahre congratulated all his African colleagues as well as the ambassadors of other continents, who "through their support, have strongly signified the necessary effort to re-conceptualize the Global Priority Africa".