Programme Planning

A/RES/57/282View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 113 Programme planning, published in 2003.

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48 documents · 1982–2025

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/233	Programme planning	1,188	–
2024	A/RES/79/247	Programme planning	1,137	–
2023	A/RES/78/244	Programme planning	1,072	–
2023	A/RES/77/254	Programme planning	1,237	–
2021	A/RES/76/236	Programme planning	1,527	–

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17 subjects

Budget Performance Disarmament Election Verification Guidelines Inter-Agency Cooperation Intergovernmental Bodies Internal Investigations Legal Services Management Medium-Term Planning Programme Evaluation Programme Management Programme Planning Report Preparation Rules and Regulations Standards Work Programme

What’s in this document?

25 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the work of the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty-second session;3

Reaffirms the role of the Committee as the main subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council for planning, programming and coordination;

Requests the Committee to continue to observe its methods of governing the drafting and format of its reports;

Encourages the Committee to continue its discussions on improving its working methods and procedures within the framework of its mandate, with a view to further enhancing its effectiveness and continued relevance;

I.Revisions to the medium-term plan for the period 2002–2005

Reaffirms that the medium-term plan is the principal policy directive of the United Nations and that it shall serve as the framework for the next biennial programme budget;

Reaffirms regulations 4.2, 4.13 and 5.2 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation,¹¹ and requests the Secretary-General to ensure full compliance with them;

¹¹ST/SGB/2000/8.

Adopts the proposed revisions to the medium-term plan for the period 2002–2005 submitted by the Secretary-General,1 as amended by the relevant recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination,3 and the recommendations of the Economic and Social Council contained in its resolution 2002/39 of 25 October 2002;

Notes the recommendations of the Committee¹² that the Secretary-General submit proposals for revisions to programme 7 of the medium-term plan so as to reflect the review by the Assembly at its fifty-seventh session of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002,¹³ and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002,¹⁴ and requests the Secretary-General to submit those proposals through the Committee at its forty-third session for consideration by the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;

¹²Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16), paras. 107 and 108.

¹³Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

¹⁴Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolutions 1 and 2.

Also notes the recommendation of the Committee¹⁵ that the Secretary-General submit proposals for revisions to programme 8, Africa: New Agenda for Development, of the medium-term plan so as to reflect the final review and appraisal by the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s and any other relevant legislative mandates, and requests the Secretary-General to submit those revisions through the Committee at its forty-third session for consideration by the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;

¹⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16), para. 117.

Requests the Secretary-General, bearing in mind that the lack of time precludes further revisions to the medium-term plan at the fifty-seventh session, to prepare the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 for programmes 7 and 8 of the medium-term plan in line with the recommendations of the Committee at its forty-second session and other relevant legislative mandates;

II.Programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2000–2001

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2000–2001;5

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination¹⁶ regarding the report of the Secretary-General;

¹⁶Ibid., paras. 56–61.

III.Evaluation

Stresses the importance and necessity of further improving evaluation and integrating it into the cycle of programme planning, budgeting and monitoring with a view to improving and strengthening programme formulation and implementation;

Approves the following schedule of in-depth evaluations to be submitted to the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions respectively: (a) law of the sea and ocean affairs; (b) public administration, finance and development; and (c) human settlements;

Emphasizes the importance of the contribution of the relevant intergovernmental bodies, in particular the Main Committees of the General Assembly, in reviewing relevant recommendations on evaluation;

Reiterates its view that the relevant intergovernmental bodies, as well as the Economic and Social Council and the Main Committees of the General Assembly should include in their programmes of work a review of recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination relevant to their work and take appropriate action;

Regrets that the relevant intergovernmental bodies did not review the recommendations on evaluation of the Committee;

Urges those intergovernmental bodies effectively to review the relevant recommendations on evaluation to facilitate their consideration by the Fifth Committee;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on strengthening the role of evaluation findings in programme design, delivery and policy directives,¹⁷ on the in-depth evaluation of the subprogrammes on General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and

¹⁷Ibid., paras. 253–259.

Council support and coordination,¹⁸ on the in-depth evaluation of legal affairs,¹⁹ on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee at its thirty-ninth session on the in-depth evaluation of the disarmament programme²⁰ and on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee at its thirty-ninth session on the in-depth evaluation of the electoral assistance programme;²¹

¹⁸Ibid., paras. 271–274.

¹⁹Ibid., paras. 289 and 290.

²⁰Ibid., paras. 297 and 298.

²¹Ibid., paras. 305 and 306.

IV.Report of the Joint Inspection Unit

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination²² regarding the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “Strengthening the investigations functions in United Nations system organizations”;²³

²²Ibid., paras. 356 and 357.

²³See A/56/282.

Notes the recommendation of the Unit that executive heads of organizations should ensure that managers involved in investigations have sufficient training in the use of established standards and procedures for conducting investigations,²⁴ and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that United Nations programme managers implicated in incidents, crimes or irregularities leading to investigations are not involved, in any way, in conducting those investigations;

²⁴Ibid., recommendation 2.

Requests the Secretary-General to review the practice of involving United Nations programme managers in investigative processes so as to ensure their independence in administrative and managerial functions and to establish proper guidelines that take into consideration the practice of internal control, and to report thereon to the General Assembly no later than at its fifty-eighth session;

V.Other conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination²⁵ regarding the annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2001,²⁶ and its conclusions and recommendations²⁷ regarding the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative on Africa in the context of the final evaluation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s;²⁸

²⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16), paras. 316–323.

²⁶E/2002/55.

²⁷Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16), paras. 334–338.

²⁸E/AC.51/2002/8.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Committee at its forty-third session on the future engagement of the United Nations system with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development;

Stresses that inter-agency coordination in the field of management should be further strengthened, and recommends that progress made in that regard be reflected in future reports of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination.