Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000

A/RES/42/191View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82g Human settlements, published in 1988.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1988–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/191

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/191	Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000	474	24%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/178	Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000	873	—
1992	A/RES/46/163	Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/173	Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/181	Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000	1,271	19%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Guidelines Housing Housing Policy Human Settlements International Days

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Decides that there shall be a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Y ear 2000, including a plan of action for its implementation, monitoring and evaluation;

Further decides that the objective of the Strategy should be to stimulate measures that will facilitate adequate shelter for ali by the year 2000;

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to prepare a proposal for a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and its implementation, including its financia) implications, for consideration by the Commission on Human Settlements at its eleventh session;

Requests the Commission on Human Settlements to formulate a Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, to be drawn up within existing resources, for submission, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-third session;

Urges ali Governments to commit themselves to the objectives of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 by adopting and implementing shelter strategies in accordance with the guidelines contained in section I of the annex to the present resolution, which will permit the mobilization of all forces and resources in the country for the attainment of the objectives of the Strategy, and to renew this commitment annually by, ínter alía, announcing on World Habitat Day the concrete actions to be taken and targets to be achieved during each successive year;

Requests ali United Nations bodies and agencies and the international community at large to support the formulation and implementation of the Global Strategy along the lines defined in section II of the annex to the present resolution.

ANNEX

GUIDELINES FOR NA TIONAL ACTION Ali Governments that have not airead y done so should endeavour to prepare national shelter strategies at appropriate levels as an integral part of their development strategies.

The national shelter strategies should take into account the multidimensional nature of the problem and fulfil and reflect the wide socioeconomic benefits of shelter development.

The national shelter strategies should also reflect the criteria of affordability and replicability, particularly for shelter for low-income population groups; special attention should be paid to improving the access of the poor to land with secure tenure and appropriate building materials, as well as to developing housing finance institutions that will mobilize household savings and are responsive to the needs of lowincome groups.

Ali efforts should be made to involve, in full partnership, ali concerned governmental, non-governmental, public-sector and privatesector bodies, agencies and institutions at all levels and, in particular, the communities and people concerned, in the planning and implementation of national shelter strategies.

In the national shelter strategies, special attention should be paid to the problems faced and capacities represented by marginalized groups such as women and youth and disadvantaged groups such as the aged and the disabled.

Governments should report biennially at the session of the Commission on Human Settlements on the progress made in implementing the measures mentioned above.

GUIDELINES FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION l.

Ali United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and institutions should support, as necessary, the Commission on Human Settlements and the Executive Director ofthe United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habita!) in the formulation and implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and ensure that their relevan! country-specific activities are supportive of and co-ordinated with national shelter strategies.

The regional commissions of the United Nations should encourage and assist in the formulation of shelter strategies in their respective regions and the exchange of information thereon, and the Executive Director is invited to make ful] use of contacts with Governments through the regional commissions and their subsidiary bodies.

Ali countries in a position to do so and international funding agencies should give ali possible support to Governments in their efforts to plan and implement national shelter strategies for the attainment of the goals of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Y ear 2000 and, within the framework of an enabling shelter strategy, their endeavours to achieve improvement in the shelter situation of their inhabitants, in particular the poor and disadvantaged, and they should report to the Executive Director ofthe United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habita!) on their actions in this respect.

76Report of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development,

Vienna,

20--31 August 1979 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.1.21 and corrigenda), chap. VII. 77 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Session.

78 /bid., sect. II.A, resolution 1 (IX), sect. II. Supplement No. 37 (A/42/37 and Corr. l).

79 /bid., sect. II.

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