Basic Programme of Work of the Economic and Social Council for 2008

E/DEC/2007/210View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1991–2014

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2013/206

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2014	E/DEC/2013/206	Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2014	60	70%Compare
2012	E/DEC/2012/205	Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2013	46	—
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2011	E/DEC/2010/204	Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2011	2,026	62%Compare
2009	E/DEC/2009/204	Basic programme of work of the Economic and Social Council for 2010	2,179	54%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Documents

What’s in this document?

124 paragraphs

At its 7th plenary meeting, on 15 March 2007, the Economic and Social Council took note of the list of questions for inclusion in the programme of work of the Council for 2008.3

Substantive session of 2008

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

A.High-level segment

High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions

Documentation

World Economic and Social Survey, 2007

Thematic discussion

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme [theme to be selected]

Annual ministerial review

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme [theme to be selected]

World Economic and Social Survey, 2008

Relevant part of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its tenth session

Relevant part of the report of the Secretary-General on regional cooperation (Council decision 2004/323)

Development Cooperation Forum

B.Operational activities of the United Nations for the international development cooperation segment

Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation

[Theme/themes to be selected]

Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly and the Council

Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Food Programme

Documentation

Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund on its second regular session of 2007 and on its first regular

session and annual session of 2008 (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund on its second regular session of 2007 and on its first regular session and annual session of 2008 (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Report of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme on its 2007 sessions (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (General Assembly resolutions 50/8 and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

C.Coordination segment

Coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nations system related to the following themes

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme [theme to be selected]

D.Humanitarian affairs segment

Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance

E.General segment

Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the major United Nations conferences and summits

Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development

Review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010

Documentation

Annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 (General Assembly resolution 61/1 and Council decision 2001/320)

Coordination, programme and other questions

Reports of coordination bodies

Documentation

Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its forty-eighth session

Annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2007

Proposed strategic framework for the biennium 2008–2009

Documentation

Relevant sections of the proposed strategic framework for the biennium 2008–2009 (General Assembly resolution 58/269)

Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system

Ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict

Tobacco or health

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control (Council decision 2006/248)

Report of the Secretary-General on smoke-free United Nations premises (Council resolution 2006/42)

Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people (Council resolution 2100 (LXIII))

Regional cooperation

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General (Council decision 1979/1)

Summaries of the surveys of economic conditions in the five regions prepared by the regional commissions (Council resolution 1724 (LIII))

Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Non-governmental organizations

Documentation

Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (Council resolutions 3 (II)

and 1996/31 and decision 1995/304)

Economic and environmental questions

Sustainable development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development on its sixteenth session (Council decision 1993/207)

Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its tenth session (Council resolution 1079 (XXXIX))

Science and technology for development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its eleventh session (General Assembly resolution 46/235, annex)

Statistics

Documentation

Report of the Statistical Commission on its thirty-ninth session (Council resolutions 1768 (LIV) and 1999/8)

Human settlements

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (Council decision 2006/247)

Environment

Documentation

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its tenth special session (General Assembly resolutions 2997 (XXVII) and 53/242)

Population and development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Population and Development on its forty-first session (General Assembly resolution 49/128 and Council decision 1995/209)

Public administration and development

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on its seventh session (Council resolutions 2001/45 and 2003/60)

International cooperation in tax matters

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters on its third session (Council resolution 2004/69)

Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions

Cartography

Documentation

Report of the Secretary General on the ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII) and 1314 (XLIV))

Report of the Secretary General on the twenty-fourth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII) and 1314 (XLIV))

Women and development

Social and human rights questions

Advancement of women

Documentation

Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-second session (Council resolutions 11 (II) and 1147 (XLI))

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (article 21 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)

Report of the Executive Board of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (Council resolution 1998 (LX))

Social development

Documentation

Report of the Commission for Social Development on its forty-sixth session (Council resolutions 10 (II) and 1996/7)

Crime prevention and criminal justice

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its seventeenth session (Council resolution 1992/1)

Narcotic drugs

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fifty-first session (Council resolution 9 (I))

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (article 15 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961; article 18 of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971; and article 23 of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Oral report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (General Assembly resolution 58/153)

Human rights

Documentation

Report of the Human Rights Committee (article 45 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Council resolutions 1988 (LX) and 1985/17)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (General Assembly resolution 48/141)

Biennial report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Assembly resolution 44/25, annex)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Documentation

Report of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on its seventh session (Council resolution 2000/22)

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Substantive session of 2008

A.High-level segment

B.Operational activities of the United Nations for the international development cooperation segment

C.Coordination segment

D.Humanitarian affairs segment

E.General segment

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