Operational Activities for Development of the United Nations System

A/RES/68/229View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 24a Operational activities for development of the United Nations System, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1983–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/155

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/155	Operational activities for development of the United Nations system	1,704	49%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/166	Operational activities for development of the United Nations System	1,593	74%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/184	Operational activities for development of the United Nations System	1,641	63%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/220	Operational activities for development of the United Nations System	1,074	64%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/238	Operational activities for development of the United Nations System	811	64%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2023

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2023	A/78/72 E/2023/59	Implementation of General Assembly resolution 75/233 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations System report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/77/184

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Development Assistance Operational Activities Programme Evaluation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the analysis of funding of operational activities for development of the United Nations system for 2011;⁵

⁵A/68/97-E/2013/87.

Also takes note of the report of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation on its seventeenth session⁶ and the decisions taken at that session,⁷ as well as the decisions taken at its intersessional meeting held on 4 June 2013;

⁶Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/67/39).

⁷Ibid., chap. I.

Reaffirms the importance of the contribution of operational activities for development to national capacity development and development effectiveness of the United Nations development system in addressing the key areas identified in the quadrennial comprehensive policy review;

Notes with appreciation the work undertaken by those entities of the United Nations development system that have made efforts to align their strategic plans, frameworks and budgets with the quadrennial comprehensive policy review, and encourages all entities of the United Nations development system to take further steps in this regard;

Recalls the concern expressed by the General Assembly in its resolution 67/226 over the lack of progress by the governing bodies in the development and operationalization of the concept of the “critical mass” of core resources, which was reiterated by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2013/5, notes that the funds and programmes have not presented specific proposals on the matter to their governing bodies, as requested in 2013, and requests the funds and programmes to take necessary actions in order to take a decision on the matter in 2014, as mandated in resolution 67/226;

Recognizes the importance of continuing to strengthen and improve the results-focused delivery of operational activities for development of the United Nations system in order to maximize their support for accelerating progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, especially in the least developed countries and other developing countries that are lagging behind in meeting the targets, as well as their support for the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;

Recalls Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/5 on operational activities for development, and expresses appreciation for the guidance provided by the Council on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 67/226;

Takes note of the policy for independent system-wide evaluation of United Nations operational activities for development prepared by the interim coordination mechanism for system-wide evaluation of operational activities for development of the United Nations system,⁸ decides in this regard that two pilot independent system-wide evaluations shall be conducted in 2014, subject to the provision and availability of extrabudgetary resources, as outlined in the policy, and that the themes of these two evaluations shall be “Meta-evaluation and synthesis of United Nations Development Assistance Framework evaluations, with a particular focus on poverty eradication” and “Evaluation of the contribution of the United Nations development system to strengthening national capacities for statistical analysis and data collection to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals”, invites countries in a position to do so to contribute extrabudgetary resources for the effective implementation of the pilot independent system-wide evaluations, and requests the interim coordination mechanism to provide an update on progress in the implementation of the pilot independent system-wide evaluations to the Economic and Social Council at the operational activities segment of its substantive session of 2015;

⁸A/68/658-E/2014/7.

Calls upon the Economic and Social Council, at the operational activities segment of its substantive session of 2015, to discuss the implications for the United Nations development system of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 68/1, while stressing the need to minimize transaction costs associated with reporting and to avoid new or additional formal reporting requirements.

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