Programme Planning

A/RES/77/254View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 139 Programme planning, published in 2023.

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	–

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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2023

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2023	E/AC.51/2023/8	United Nations system support for Agenda 2063 The Africa We want : report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/77/254

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Programme Budgeting Programme Planning

What’s in this document?

17 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;

Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters, and also reaffirms the role of the Fifth Committee in carrying out a thorough analysis and approving human and financial resources and policies, with a view to ensuring full, effective and efficient implementation of all mandated programmes and activities and the implementation of policies in this regard;

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;

Recalls paragraph 15 of its resolution 74/251 and paragraph 14 of its resolution 76/236, 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;

Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Committee for Programme and Coordination, and welcomes its report;

Recalls paragraph 7 of its resolution 76/236, commends the progress made by the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its sixty-second session and increased engagement by all relevant stakeholders, notes with appreciation that the number of programmes without conclusions and recommendations from the Committee for Programme and Coordination has reduced this year, and notes the letters provided by the Chairs of the Main Committees of the General Assembly;

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;

Recognizes the efforts of the President of the General Assembly and the Chair of the Fifth Committee in following up with the Chairs of the relevant Main Committees on the consideration of the programmes without recommendations from the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in accordance with paragraph 16 of its resolution 76/236, and decides that incoming Presidents of the General Assembly and Chairs of the Fifth Committee shall reach out to and support the Chairs of the Main Committees to ensure that conclusions and recommendations are issued on time;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the proposed programme plan for 2023 and programme performance for 2021⁷ and on evaluation,⁸ contained in its report on the work of its sixty-second session, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the timely implementation of the recommendations;

⁷See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/77/16), chap. II, sect. A.

⁸Ibid., sect. B.

Approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, for programmes 3 and 20 of the proposed programme budget for 2023, 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 2023 at the subprogramme level;

Also approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, for programmes 13 and 21 of the proposed programme budget for 2023, 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 76/236 and the deliverables for 2023 at the subprogramme level;

Further approves the programme plan for programme 6, Legal affairs, of the proposed programme budget for 2023, as contained in the report of the Secretary-General;⁹

⁹A/77/6 (Sect. 8) and A/77/6 (Sect. 8)/Corr.1.

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 2021,¹⁰ on United Nations system support for Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want¹¹ and on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit.¹²

¹⁰See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/77/16), chap. III, sect. A.

¹¹Ibid., sect. B.

¹²Ibid., chap. IV.

56th (resumed) plenary meeting

30 December 2022

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