Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System

A/RES/33/202View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 58 Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1978–1982

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/36/187

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/36/187	Restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations system	400	16%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/202	Restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations system	1,622	18%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/197	Restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations System	903	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2007

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2007	A/62/326	Comprehensive statistical analysis of the financing of operational activities of the United Nations system : 2006 update report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/32/197

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Development Economic Cooperation Organizational Change

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Invites the Economic and Social Council to intensify its efforts to complete the implementation of the specific measures outlined in section II and section VII, paragraph 57, of the annex to General Assembly resolution 3 2/ 197 in time to report to the Assembly at its thirty-fourth session;

II l. Takes note of the progress reports of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination outlining its response to General Assembly resolution 32/197 and, in particular, the progress it has made in streamlining its continuing subsidiary machinery;197 2.

Requests the Administrative Committee on Coordination to keep its ad hoe subsidiary machinery to the absolute minimum necessary to meet specific intergovernmental requirements and to support the work of its continuing machinery;

Further requests the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination to give the highest priority in its work to substantive questions of central importance to the development of developing countries and to international economic co-operation, and to keep its functioning and reporting systems geared to the concerns, directives and programmes of work of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;

Welcomes, in the light of paragraph 64 (a) of the annex to resolution 32/197, the intention of the Secretary-General to designate, when he is unable to preside over meetings of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to chair, on his behalf, those meetings or subject-oriented sessions devoted, for instance, to general development issues or other questions in respect of which the United Nations has a specific leadership function;

III 1.

Takes note of the relevant sections of the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination on the work of its eighteenth session;198 2.

Requests the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination to continue pursuing the implementation of the recommendations addressed to it in section VI of the annex to General Assembly resolution 32/197;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination with the necessary technical and substantive services in order that the Committee may be able to fulfil its increased responsibilities under resolution 3 2/ 197 and requests

197 E/1978/107, E/1978/144.

198 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/33/38). him to ensure the timely submission of the necessary documents to the Committee;

IV 1.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General on the implementation of those recommendations annexed to General Assembly resolution 32/ 197 that are addressed to him199 and of the report of the Secretary-General on the restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations system,200 regrets the late submission of the latter report to the Assembly and urges avoidance of such late submission in the future;

Takes note of Economic and Social Council decisions 1978/70 of 4 August 1978 and 1978/94 of 19 December 197 8;

Takes note with appreciation of the efforts made by the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation with a view to exercising his functions as outlined in paragraph 2 of resolution 32/197;

Reaffirms the authority and responsibility of the Secretary-General under the relevant Articles of the Charter of the United Nations;

Affirms that, in conformity with resolution 32/197:

The Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation, under the direction of the Secretary-General, should be fully and effectively utilized as the official in charge of executing the functions outlined in paragraphs 64 (a) and 64 (b) of the recommendations annexed to resolution 32/197;

The necessary resources should be provided ( b) to enable the Director-General, inter alia, to discharge effectively the functions envisaged in paragraphs 64

and 64 (b) of the annex to resolution 32/197;

( c) The Director-General, under the direction of the Secretary-General, should have, fully and effectively, authority over all services and organs within the United Nations at the level of the secretariats in the economic and social sectors, without prejudice to their respective spheres of competence or the terms of reference as contained in their relevant legislative mandates, in discharging the functions envisaged in paragraph 64 (b) of the annex to resolution 32/197 and in carrying out, inter alia, the specific tasks assigned to him by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and, inter alia, in establishing the policy-related guidelines for all activities undertaken by those services and organs in order to ensure their coherence, co-ordination and efficient management;

Requests the Secretary-General to undertake urgently all necessary steps to implement the above provisions, taking fully into account the views expressed by Member States in the Economic and Social Council during 1978, including the appropriate adjustment in the functioning and administrative arrangements, and a possible renaming, of the relevant organizational entities;

Urges the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency to offer their full and

199 E/1978/118.

200 A/33/410/Rev.1.

effective co-operation and assistance to the Director- General in discharging the functions as defined in paragraph 64 (a) of the annex to resolution 32/197;

Also requests the Secretary-General to pursue actively, in accordance with paragraphs 62 and 63 of the annex to resolution 32/197, the process of rationalizing and streamlining the capabilities of the entities

concerned, including, if necessary, the transfer of elements of their functions and the redeployment of staff resources, particularly to the regional commissions;

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Takes note of Economic and Social Council resolution 1978/74 of 4 August 1978;

Notes the progress made in the implementation of section IV of the annex to General Assembly resolution 32/197 concerning structures for regional and interregional co-operation;

Decides that the regional commissions shall have the status of executing agencies, in their own right, in respect of the categories of projects described in and in conformity with paragraph 23 of the annex to resolution 32/197 and requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps in this regard;

Requests the Secretary-General to proceed expeditiously with the development and application of the measures contemplated in paragraph 93 of his report, 200 in particular those related to the decentralization to the regional commissions of appropriate research and analysis activities and technical co-operation projects coming within the scope of paragraph 23 of the annex to resolution 32/197, the strengthening of co-operation arrangements with the regional commissions in regard to programme planning as well as research and analysis, and the involvement of the executive secretaries of the regional commissions in the machinery of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, and those that might enable the regional commissions effectively to exercise their responsibilities for co-ordination at the regional level, as envisaged in paragraph 20 of the annex to resolution 32/197, and to undertake measures to enhance interregional cooperation;

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Requests all organs, organizations and bodies within the United Nations system to take further action to give full effect to the recommendations annexed to General Assembly resolution 32/197 within their respective spheres of competence, availing themselves as appropriate of the assistance of the Secretary-General;

Requests the Secretary-General, after appropriate consultations and, as relevant, with the co-operation of the executive heads of the agencies concerned, to prepare a consolidated report, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session through the Economic and Social Council, synthesizing information on actions taken by the various organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in the implementation of resolution 32/197 and the present resolution.

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