Assembly/AU/Dec.442(XIX) Page 2 9. RECALLS the Decision (Assembly /AU/Dec.348(XVI) and ADOPTS the final draft Rules of Procedure for NEPAD governance structures as a means to facilitate the functioning of the NEPAD HSGOC as a sub-Committee of the Assembly and the Steering Committee based on the African Union established rules, regulations and practices. ACCORDINGLY REQUESTS the NPCA to certify and publish the adopted Rules in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel of the Commission for circulation to HSGOC Members; 10. FURTHER RECALLS the Decision (Assembly /AU/Dec.413 (XVIII) and NOTES the ongoing work being done by NPCA and UNECA, along with partner institutions, on the policy study on domestic resource mobilization which will be presented to the HSGOC in January 2013. URGES the final study to come up with concrete and innovative mechanisms to effectively mobilize domestic funding for NEPAD regional projects and PROPOSES the convening of a special HSGOC session in the first half of 2013 to address this matter; 11. DEPLORES the low level annual contributions from Member States for funding NPCA operations with the implied continued reliance on Development Partners which hampers the Agency’s delivery and infringes on African ownership of the NEPAD agenda. THEREBY DIRECTS the NEPAD Steering Committee to convene an extra-ordinary meeting to deliberate on funding for NPCA and its programmes before the end of 2012; 12. IN RECALLING the Declaration Assembly /AU/Decl.2 (XVIII) on the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) relating to Member States’ commitment to support the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPFF) Special Fund, RECOGNIZES that NEPAD continues to inspire PIDA implementation based on the role assigned to NPCA as the executing agency in the Institutional Architecture for Infrastructure Development in Africa (IAIDA); 13. WELCOMES WITH APPRECIATION the progress report presented by H.E. Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa as Chair of the HSGOC High Level Sub-Committee on the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI) focusing on the North-South Corridor project and the proposal to undertake a road show to garner support for implementing the project and ACKNOWLEDGING the support of the Commission, NPCA, RECs, UNECA, African Development Bank and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) for PICI; 14. To effectively roll out the North-South Corridor project, NOTES IN PARTICULAR the efforts to provide an efficient operational framework with desired outcomes aimed at removing bottlenecks and developing a project preparation fund and CALLS ON the PICI champion countries in the HSGOC to promptly nominate relevant Ministers to support the work of each Presidential Champion in view of the planned convening of the PICI Ministerial Working Group and Technical Task Teams by the Government of South Africa;