Provisional Agenda for the Substantive Session of 2008 of the Economic and Social Council

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

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14 versions · 1997–2014

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50 operative paragraphs

At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 5 February 2008, the Economic and Social Council, having considered the proposed basic programme of work of the Council for 2008 and 2009,2 approved the following proposed provisional agenda and documentation for its substantive session of 2008, as orally corrected:

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

Documentation

Note by the Secretary-General on the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies: draft annex relating to the World Tourism Organization (E/2006/70)

(Council decision 2007/247)

High-level segment

High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions

Documentation

World Economic and Social Survey 2008 (chap. I) (General Assembly resolutions 118 (II) and 52/180 and Council resolution 1983/50)

Thematic discussion

[To be decided]

Annual ministerial review: “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development”

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme (General Assembly resolution 61/16,

para. 10, and Council decision 2007/272)

World Economic and Social Survey 2008 (chap. I) (General Assembly resolutions 118 (II) and 52/180 and Council resolution 1983/50)

Relevant part of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its tenth session (Council resolutions 1079 (XXXIX) and 1998/46)

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

2 See E/2008/1.

Development Cooperation Forum

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on trends and progress in international development cooperation (General Assembly resolution 61/16, paras. 6 and 7)

Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation segment

Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation

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

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on comprehensive statistical data on operational activities for development of the United Nations system (General Assembly resolutions 35/81 and 62/208)3

Report of the Secretary-General on the functioning of the resident coordinator system (General Assembly resolution 62/208, para. 93)

Report of the Secretary-General on the management process for the implementation of General Assembly resolution 62/208 on the triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (General Assembly resolution 62/208, paras. 122 and 141)

Consolidated list of issues related to the coordination of operational activities (Council resolution 1998/27, para. 4)

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 62/208 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 62/208 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 62/208 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 62/208 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 62/208 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (General Assembly resolutions 50/8 and 62/208 and Council resolution 1995/51)

3 Submitted to the General Assembly through the Council.

Coordination segment

The role of the United Nations system in implementing the Ministerial Declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2007 of the Council

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General (Council decision 2007/261)

Updated report of the Secretary-General on the role of the Economic and Social Council in

the integrated and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of and follow-up to major

United Nations conferences and summits, in the light of relevant General Assembly resolutions,4 including resolution 61/16 (Council resolution 2007/29) (see also items 8, 13

and 14)

Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the implementation of and follow-up to the

outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (General Assembly resolution 62/182)3

Humanitarian affairs segment

Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the progress made in the strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (General Assembly resolution 62/94 and Council resolution 2007/3)3

General segment

Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits

Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development

Documentation

Summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the special high-level meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (General Assembly resolution 58/230 and Council resolution 2007/30)

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 62/203 and Council resolution 2007/31)3

Coordination, programme and other questions

Reports of coordination bodies

Documentation

Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its forty-eighth session (Council resolution 2008 (LX))

4 General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265.

Annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2007 (Council decision 2001/321)

Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010–2011

Documentation

Relevant sections of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2010–2011 (General Assembly resolution 58/269)

International cooperation in the field of informatics

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on action taken to follow up on the need to harmonize and improve United Nations informatics systems for optimal utilization and accessibility by all States, including the findings of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics and an assessment of its work and mandate (Council resolution 2007/14)

Long-term programme of support for Haiti

Documentation

Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (Council resolution 2007/13)

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

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system (General Assembly resolution 62/137 and Council resolutions 2006/9 and 2007/33) (see also item 14 (a))

Ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict

Documentation

Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau (Council resolution 2007/15)

Tobacco or health

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on 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

Documentation

Updated report of the Secretary-General on the role of the Economic and Social Council in the integrated and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits, in the light of relevant General Assembly resolutions,4 including resolution 61/16 (Council resolution 2007/29) (see also items 4, 13 and 14)

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 (General Assembly resolution 62/93 and Council resolution 2100 (LXIII))3

Report of the President of the Council on consultations held with the Chairman of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (Council resolution 2007/25)

Report of the Secretary-General on support to Non-Self-Governing Territories by the specialized agencies and international institutions associated with the United Nations (Council resolution 2007/25)

Regional cooperation

Documentation

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

Economic developments in the Economic Commission for Europe region, 2008

Overview of the economic and social conditions in Africa, 2008

Summary of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008

Latin America and the Caribbean: economic situation and outlook, 2008–2009

Summary of the survey of economic and social developments in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region, 2007–2008

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

Documentation

Note by the Secretary-General on the implementation of Council resolution 2007/263

Non-governmental organizations

Documentation

Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (Council resolutions 3 (II) and 1996/31 and Council decisions 1995/304 and 2007/232)

Economic and environmental questions

Documentation

Sustainable development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development on its sixteenth session (Council decisions 1993/207 and 2007/235)

Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its tenth session (Council resolutions 1079 (XXXIX) and 1998/46)

Science and technology for development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its eleventh session (General Assembly resolutions 46/235, annex, and 56/182)

Statistics

Documentation

Report of the Statistical Commission on its thirty-ninth session (Council resolutions 8 (I), 8 (II) and 1566 (L) and Council decision 2007/236)

Human settlements

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (Council decision 2007/249)3

Environment

Documentation

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its tenth special session (General Assembly resolutions 2997 (XXVII), 53/242 and 62/195)3

Report of the Secretary-General on the continued usefulness for the Member States of the Consolidated List of Products Whose Consumption and/or Sale Have Been Banned, Withdrawn, Severely Restricted or Not Approved by Governments (Council decision 2007/264)

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 2007/237)

Public administration and development

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on its seventh session (Council resolution 2007/38)

International cooperation in tax matters

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters on its third session (Council resolution 2007/39)

Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions

Documentation

No request for advance documentation

Cartography

Documentation

Report of the Ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, New York, 21–30 August 2007 (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII) and 1314 (XLIV))

Report of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names on the work of its twenty-fourth session, New York, 20 and 31 August 2007 (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII) and 1314 (XLIV))

Documentation

Relevant sections of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-second session (General Assembly resolution 42/178 and Council resolution 1987/24)

Social and human rights questions

Documentation

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) and Council decision 2007/239)

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)3

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

Report of the Secretary-General on future work to strengthen the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (Council resolution 2007/37)

Social development

Documentation

Report of the Commission for Social Development on its forty-sixth session (Council resolution 10 (II) and Council decision 2007/258)

Crime prevention and criminal justice

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its seventeenth session (Council resolution 1992/1 and Council decision 2007/251)

Narcotic drugs

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fifty-first session (Council resolution 9 (I) and Council decision 2007/242)

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

Documentation

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

Comprehensive implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

Documentation

No request for advance documentation

Human rights

Documentation

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)3

Biennial report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Assembly resolution 44/25, annex)3

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children (General Assembly resolution 62/141)3

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Documentation

Report of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on its seventh session (Council resolution 2000/22 and Council decision 2007/246)

Genetic privacy and non-discrimination

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the most appropriate forum or forums for the consideration of the issue of genetic privacy and non-discrimination (Council decision 2007/269)

United Nations research and training institutes

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Institute for Training and Research,

including details on financial implications, and the status of contributions to and the financial situation of the Institute (General Assembly resolution 62/210)

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