Programme Planning

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 135 Programme planning, published in 2016.

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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	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Programme Evaluation Programme Planning Programme Priorities

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20 operative paragraphs

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;

Re-emphasizes the role of the plenary and the Main Committees of the General Assembly 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;1

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2014–2015, contained in chapter II, section A, of its report on the work of its fifty-sixth session,2 on the biennial programme plan as reflected in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017, contained in chapter II, section B (i), and on the proposed strategic framework for the period 2018–2019, contained in chapter II, section B (ii);

Decides that the priorities of the United Nations for the period 2018–2019 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 2018–2019 on the basis of the above priorities and the strategic framework 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 for 2015, contained in chapter III, section A, and on United Nations system support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, contained in chapter III, section B, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the timely implementation of the above-mentioned recommendations;

Decides not to take a decision on the content of part one: plan outline of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2018–2019;3

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure, when preparing future plan outlines, that the proposed strategic frameworks take fully into account the guidelines provided by the General Assembly in its resolutions 59/275, 61/235, 62/224, 63/247 and subsequent relevant resolutions;

Emphasizes the need for the Secretary-General to strictly adhere to the concepts, terms and mandates approved in the strategic frameworks, while preparing the related programme performance reports;

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.`

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