Programme Planning

A/RES/76/236View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 139 Programme planning, published in 2021.

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.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 9	—	23

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?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 9	—	23	—

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.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports · 2022–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	E/AC.51/2026/6	United Nations system support for Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/236
2022	A/77/485	Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations : review of changes to the budgetary cycle report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/236
2022	E/AC.51/2022/14	United Nations system support for Agenda 2063: the Africa We Want report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/236

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Programme Budgeting Programme Planning

What’s in this document?

24 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;

Also reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination in verifying that the programmes of activities of the Organization are implemented in line with the legislative mandates and that the full implementation of regulations and rules is ensured;

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;

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

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

Recalls regulation 3.2, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters, and stresses the importance that the Fifth Committee make decisions on the programme budget in a timely manner;

Recommends that the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in accordance with its mandate, provide recommendations on all programmes of the proposed programme budget;

Recalls that the Committee for Programme and Coordination shall consider the proposed programme plans in accordance with its terms of reference, and appreciates the continuous efforts of the Committee to reach consensus on all programmes of the proposed programme budget;

Also recalls its resolution 72/266 A, in which it approved the change from a biennial to an annual budget period on a trial basis, beginning with the programme budget for 2020;

Requests the Secretary-General to engage with Member States and other relevant stakeholders, including programme managers and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, when preparing the report on the review of the changes to the budgetary cycle, including on the sequence of budgetary procedures and practices;

Reaffirms that no changes to the budget methodology, established budgetary procedures and practices or the financial regulations may be implemented without prior review and approval by the General Assembly in accordance with established budgetary procedures;

Expresses its support for the efforts of the Secretariat to better engage and support programme managers with the aim of making the Organization more effective and results-oriented, and welcomes the commitment and ongoing efforts of the Secretariat to improve and update the programmatic aspects, including planned results, performance measures and external factors, of the programme budget;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that results and, where possible, performance measures actually reflect achievements and impacts in the implementation of the programmes of the Organization and not those of individual Member States;

Recalls paragraph 15 of its resolution 74/251, and reiterates its guidance to the Secretary-General to ensure that the terms and expressions referenced in the proposed programme plan have been intergovernmentally agreed;

Notes that decisions by the General Assembly regarding the approval of the programmes during the seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth sessions were issued as addenda to the main reports, and requests the Secretary-General to use cost-effective ways to display the approved versions of the programme plans;

Reiterates that whenever the Committee for Programme and Coordination cannot provide conclusions and recommendations on a given subprogramme or programme of the proposed programme budget, the plenary or the relevant Main Committee or Main Committees of the General Assembly responsible for those mandates will consider the said subprogramme or programme at the very start of its session in order to provide any conclusions and recommendations to the Fifth Committee, at the earliest opportunity, and no later than four weeks after the start of the session, for timely consideration by the Fifth Committee;

Notes the increased size and volume of documentation that forms the proposed programme budget, and notes with appreciation that the Secretary-General continues his efforts to enhance the quality, clarity and usability of the proposed programme budget in consultation with Member States, while maintaining the level of information provided to Member States;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all the Main Committees have access on their Committee Places of the e-deleGATE portal, for information purposes, before the start of the session, to the latest report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination;

Also requests the Secretary-General to identify possible measures to enhance and support more effective work of the Committee for Programme and Coordination, including in terms of the duration of its sessions and the capacity of the secretariat of the Fifth Committee and the Committee for Programme and Coordination, for the consideration of the General Assembly, and decides that the sixty-second session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination shall be extended to five weeks;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the proposed programme plan for 2022 and programme performance for 2020⁸ and on evaluation,⁹ contained in its report on the work of its sixty-first session, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the timely implementation of the recommendations;

⁸See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/76/16), chap. II, sect. A.

⁹Ibid., sect. B.

Approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, for programmes 3, 7, 14, 20 and 23 of the proposed programme budget for 2022, a programme narrative that is composed solely of the list of mandates at the programme level and the objectives approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 71/6 and the deliverables for 2022 at the subprogramme level;

Also approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, for programmes 1, 4, 24 and 28 of the proposed programme budget for 2022, a programme narrative that is composed solely of the list of mandates at the programme level and the objectives approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 75/243 and the deliverables for 2022 at the subprogramme level;

Further approves the programme plan for programme 6, Legal affairs, of the proposed programme budget for 2022, as contained in the report of the Secretary-General;¹⁰

¹⁰A/76/6 (Sect. 8).

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2020,¹¹ on United Nations system support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development¹² and on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit.¹³

¹¹See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/76/16), chap. III, sect. A.

¹²Ibid., sect. B.

¹³Ibid., chap. IV.

54th (resumed) plenary meeting

24 December 2021

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