Programme Planning

A/RES/59/275View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 109 Programme planning, published in 2005.

What else is in this group?

48 documents · 1982–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

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	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2005–2007

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2007	A/61/826	Feasibility of the application of cost-accounting principles in the United Nations Secretariat report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/59/275
2005	A/60/264	Budget for the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 for the biennium 2006-2007 report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/59/275

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Development Internal Oversight Medium-Term Planning Programme Budgeting Programme Evaluation Programme Management Programme Planning Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

41 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes the role of the plenary and the Main Committees in reviewing and taking action on the appropriate recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination relevant to their work, in accordance with regulation 4.10 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation;¹²

¹²ST/SGB/2000/8.

Strategic framework for the period 2006–2007

Recalling paragraph 5 of its resolution 58/269, in which it requested the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, a strategic framework, which would comprise in one document a plan outline, reflecting the longer-term objectives of the Organization, and a biennial programme plan, to cover two years,

Notes that the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007 constitutes the first proposal submitted since the adoption of its resolution 58/269;

Also notes that the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty-fourth session recommended that the General Assembly review part one, plan outline, of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007;¹³

¹³See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/59/16), para. 65.

Recalls its decision in resolution 58/269 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;

Decides, in view of the differences between Member States on the content of part one: plan outline of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2006–2007, to take no decision on part one;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and propose a plan outline, reflecting the longer-term objectives of the Organization, and a biennial programme plan in the context of the strategic framework for the biennium 2008–2009, based, inter alia, on the following principal criteria:

The longer-term objectives consistent with all the relevant legislative mandates in all areas of the activities of the United Nations;

Outcomes of the intergovernmental conferences and summits;

Inputs from relevant programme managers;

Use of intergovernmentally agreed terms and expressions;

Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to consider at its forty-fifth session additional guidelines, if any, for the preparation of the plan outline;

Decides that the priorities for the period 2006–2007 shall be the following:

Maintenance of international peace and security;

Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences;

Development of Africa;

Promotion of human rights;

Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;

Promotion of justice and international law;

Disarmament;

Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007 based on the above priorities and the biennial programme plan as adopted in the present resolution;

Also requests the Secretary-General to issue in one document, before the forty-fifth session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination, only the priorities and the biennial programme plan, as adopted in the present resolution;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the proposed biennial programme plan for the period 2006–2007 contained in the report of the Committee on the work of its forty-fourth session,1 those of the First Committee regarding programme 3, Disarmament,7 those of the Second Committee regarding programme 10, Trade and development,8 those regarding programme 19, Human rights10 and those of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) regarding programme 23, Public information,9 subject to the provisions of the present resolution and the additional modifications contained in the annex hereto;

Requests the Secretary-General to propose a relevant indicator of achievement for programme 1, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management, section A, Conference management, New York, subprogramme 4, Meetings and publishing services, in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007;

Notes that the overall system of the administration of justice in the Secretariat will be considered by the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to make recommendations to the General Assembly by the end of its fifty-ninth session on how to ensure the ongoing discharge of key functions of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat at Headquarters as defined by the Committee for Programme and Coordination;

Programme performance report

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2002–2003;4

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

Stresses that, while future reports on programme performance will be more aligned with the objectives, expected accomplishments and indicators of achievement, information on the outputs shall continue to be provided in the reports;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that future programme performance reports provide more detailed information on the reasons for less-than-full implementation of programmed outputs, or the postponement and termination thereof;

Evaluation

Recalls paragraph 19 of its resolution 58/269, in which it emphasized the need to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system;

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

Reiterates section III of its resolution 57/282 on evaluation;

Requests the General Committee to take fully into account the above-mentioned resolutions in the allocation of agenda items to the Main Committees;

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, on in-depth evaluation of the programme on public administration, finance and development, on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee on the in-depth evaluation of sustainable development and on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee on the in-depth evaluation of the population programme, and on the further development of topics for a pilot thematic evaluation;

Improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee for Programme and Coordination within the framework of its mandate

Requests the Secretary-General to schedule the organizational session of the forty-fifth session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as soon as possible at the resumed session of the Fifth Committee at the fifty-ninth session;

Recalls paragraph 18 of its resolution 58/269, in which it invited the Committee for Programme and Coordination to submit, at its forty-fourth session, recommendations on improving its working methods;

Welcomes the decision of the Committee for Programme and Coordination to revert to the agenda item entitled “Improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee for Programme and Coordination within the framework of its mandate”, as a matter of priority, at the beginning of its forty-fifth session;

Other conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination regarding the annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2003,¹⁴ and its conclusions and recommendations regarding the report of the Secretary-General on United Nations system support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development;¹⁵

¹⁴E/2004/67.

¹⁵E/AC.51/2004/6.

Also endorses the recommendation of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the report of the Secretary-General on priority-setting;5

Other matters

Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination to take appropriate measures to ensure that the discussion sections of the report of the Committee are drafted so as to reflect fully the opinions expressed by delegations.

Additional modifications to the proposed biennial programme plan for the period 2006–2007

Programme 1 General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management

Overall orientation

In the second sentence of paragraph 1.3, after “the control and limitation of documents,” add “in accordance with legislative mandates,”.

Conference management, New York

Subprogramme 4 Meetings and publishing services

Delete indicator of achievement (b) (ii) and delete “(i)” in indicator of achievement (b) (i).

A, B, C and D. Conference management, New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi

Subprogramme 2 Planning, development and coordination of conference services

Under Strategy, replace the text of paragraphs 1.5 (e), 1.7 (c), 1.10 (e) and 1.13 (c) of sections A, B, C and D, respectively, with the following: “Upgrading, pursuant to the managerial responsibilities of the Secretary-General, the technological capacity in conference services in line with new developments in technology, in accordance with legislative mandates, while keeping the General Assembly aware of new technologies that can be issued in the Organization to achieve timeliness and better quality of services provided”.

At the end of expected accomplishment (b), add “where feasible and more cost-effective, without adversely affecting the quality of services provided”.

Subprogramme 4 Meetings and publishing services

Under Strategy, in paragraphs 1.7 (b), 1.9 (b), 1.12 (b) and 1.15 (b) of sections A, B, C and D, respectively, after “documentation publishing”, add “to achieve better quality, and timeliness”.

Programme 21 Palestine refugees

Overall orientation

After the first sentence of paragraph 21.2, add the following sentence: “In its resolution 3331 B (XXIX) of 17 December 1974, the General Assembly decided that, with effect from 1 January 1975, the expenses relating to the emoluments of international staff in the service of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which would otherwise have been charged to voluntary contributions, should be financed by the regular budget of the United Nations for the duration of the Agency’s mandate.”

Programme 25 Internal oversight

Overall orientation

Replace the first sentence of paragraph 25.1 with the following: “The overall purpose of the programme is to enhance effectiveness in the implementation of all programmes through continually improved internal control mechanisms within the Organization. The mandate for the programme derives from the responsibility of the Secretary-General as the chief administrative officer of the United Nations, entrusted to him under Article 97 of the Charter of the United Nations.”

Paragraph 25.3 should read as follows: “The Office assists Member States and the Organization in protecting its assets, and ensuring the compliance of programme activities with resolutions, regulations, rules and policies, and the more efficient and effective delivery of the Organization’s activities; preventing and detecting fraud, waste, abuse, malfeasance or mismanagement; and improving the delivery of the Organization’s programmes and activities to enable it to achieve better results by determining all factors affecting the efficient and effective implementation of programmes.”

In the second sentence of paragraph 25.4, replace “ensure” with “assist”.

The second sentence of paragraph 25.5 should read as follows: “In addition, the Office assists the Organization in achieving better results by determining the factors affecting the efficient and effective implementation of programmes in accordance with, inter alia, the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and in the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and international agreements since 1992.”

Subprogramme 1 Internal audit

The objective of the Organization should read as follows: “To ensure efficient and effective implementation and management of programmes, activities and operations by programme managers, in accordance with the relevant legislative mandates, regulations and rules.”

Expected accomplishment (c) should read as follows: “Improved levels of efficiency and effectiveness in the implementation of programmes, and enhanced accountability by programme managers.”

Subprogramme 2 Monitoring, evaluation and consulting

The objective of the Organization should read as follows: “To strengthen programme implementation by monitoring the delivery of the programmes using results-based management methods as well as their outputs and to determine whether they are adequate, timely and in accordance with the mandates, whether they address effectively the objectives of the programmes and whether the resources are used efficiently.”

Subprogramme 3 Investigations

The objective of the Organization should read as follows: “To ensure compliance with regulations and rules of the United Nations and to minimize the occurrence of fraud, violations of regulations and rules of the United Nations, mismanagement, misconduct, waste of resources and abuse of authority.”

Expected accomplishment (a) should read as follows: “Better protection of the Organization’s assets and resources and greater compliance with the Organization’s rules and regulations.”

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What else is in this group?

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Strategic framework for the period 2006–2007

Programme performance report

Evaluation

Improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee for Programme and Coordination within the framework of its mandate

Other conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

Other matters

Table of contents