Strengthening of the United Nations System : An Agenda for Further Change

A/RES/58/269View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 59 Strengthening of the United Nations System, published in 2003.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 7	Economic and social affairs	291
	Programme 20	Human rights	433

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 7	Economic and social affairs	291	—
	Programme 20	Human rights	433	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Administrative Reform Budgetary Policy Information Exchange Intergovernmental Bodies Medium-Term Planning Programme Budgeting Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Programme Planning Project Monitoring Report Preparation Rules and Regulations

What’s in this document?

26 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the commitment of the Secretary-General to strengthening the United Nations, including its planning, programming and budgetary process;

Stresses that setting the priorities of the United Nations is the prerogative of the Member States, as reflected in legislative mandates;

Stresses also the need for the Member States to participate fully in the budget preparation process, from its early stages and throughout the process;

Emphasizes the importance of providing the information necessary to enable Member States to make well-informed decisions;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, for submission to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, a strategic framework to replace the current four-year medium-term plan, which would comprise in one document:

Part one: a plan outline, reflecting the longer-term objectives of the Organization;

Part two: a biennial programme plan, to cover two years;

Decides that:

The budget outline shall continue to provide the same level of detail as at present, in accordance with regulation 3.2 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation;⁶

⁶ST/SGB/2000/8.

The budget outline shall be submitted and considered for approval after consideration and adoption of the strategic framework;

After their approval, the budget outline and strategic framework shall together form the basis for preparing the proposed programme budget;

Affirms that the strategic framework, as outlined above, shall constitute the principal policy directive of the United Nations and shall serve as the basis for programme planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation;

Decides to review, with a view to taking a final decision at its sixty-second session, the format, content and duration of the strategic framework, including the necessity of maintaining part one, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report, through the Committee for Programme and Coordination, reviewing the experiences gained with the changes made in the planning and budgeting process;

Decides also that the programme narratives of the programme budget fascicles shall be identical to the biennial programme plan;

Decides further to keep the current format of the proposed programme budget and to maintain the level of information contained therein;

Decides that the Committee for Programme and Coordination shall no longer consider the budget outline;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in the introduction of the budget fascicles information on the new and/or revised mandates approved by the General Assembly subsequent to the adoption of the biennial programme plan;

Requests the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in performing its programmatic role in the planning and budgeting process, to review the programmatic aspects of the new and/or revised mandates referred to above, as well as any differences that arise between the biennial programme plan and the programmatic aspects of the proposed programme budget;

Also requests the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in the context of its report on its forty-fifth session, to provide comments on the various aspects of the review process referred to above;

Emphasizes the importance of the intergovernmental nature of the Committee for Programme and Coordination in discharging its functions;

Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to submit at its forty-fourth session proposals on enhancing its role in monitoring and evaluation;

Recalls paragraph 34 of General Assembly resolution 57/300, in which the Assembly invited the Committee for Programme and Coordination to continue to improve its working methods;

Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to submit, at its forty-fourth session, recommendations on improving its effectiveness;

Emphasizes the need to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system, and in this regard urges the Secretary-General to improve the format and timing of programme performance and evaluation reports;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that resources are clearly identified in all the sections of the proposed programme budget for the performance of the monitoring and evaluation functions;

Also requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services, in collaboration with the Joint Inspection Unit, with submitting to the General Assembly for consideration at its sixtieth session proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation.

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