Programme Planning

A/RES/63/247View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 119 Programme planning, published in 2009.

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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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8 subjects

Administrative Reform Coordination Within UN System Programme Budgeting Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Programme Planning Programme Priorities Subsidiary Bodies

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Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2006–2007, contained in chapter II, section A, of its report on the work of its forty-eighth session,1 and on the proposed biennial programme plan for the period 2010–2011, contained in chapter II, section B;

Decides that the priorities for the period 2010–2011 shall be the following:

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

Maintenance of international peace and security;

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;

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

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

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 on the basis of the above 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 evaluation, contained in chapter II, section C, of its report; on the annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, contained in chapter III, section A; on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, contained in chapter III, section B; and on improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee within the framework of its mandate, contained in chapter IV;

Reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination in monitoring and evaluation, and recalls paragraph 11 of its resolution 62/224;

Recognizes the importance of continuing to improve the logical framework, and in this regard encourages programme managers to further improve the qualitative aspects of indicators of achievement in order to enable better evaluation of results, bearing in mind the importance of defining the indicators in a way that ensures their clear measurability;

Reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as the main subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council for planning, programming and coordination, recalls regulation 5.6 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation,⁶ and emphasizes that the Committee for Programme and Coordination should enhance its coordination role in order to increase planning efficiency and effectiveness so as to continue to ensure the timeliness of the implementation of, and prevent duplication and redundancy in, the actions of the Organization;

⁶ST/SGB/2000/8.

Welcomes the progress made by the Committee for Programme and Coordination in improving its working methods and procedures within the framework of its mandate, as well as the decision of the Committee to remain seized of the matter.

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