Basic Programme of Work of the Economic and Social Council for 2010

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2009.

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24 versions · 1991–2014

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162 paragraphs

At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 10 February 2009, the Economic and Social Council took note of the following questions for inclusion in the programme of work of the Council for 2010 and the list of documents for each agenda item.1

Substantive session of 2010

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

Documentation

Annotated provisional agenda for the substantive session of 2010

Status of documentation for the substantive session of 2010

A.High-level segment

High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions

Documentation

World Economic and Social Survey 2010 (General Assembly resolutions 118 (II) and 52/180 and Council resolution 1983/50)

World Economic Situation and Prospects

Thematic discussion

[To be decided]

Documentation

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

para. 2 (c))

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

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

Annual ministerial review on the theme “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and empowerment of women”

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme (General Assembly resolution 61/16, para. 10,

and Council decision 2008/258)

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)

B.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 results achieved and measures and processes implemented in follow-up to General Assembly resolution 62/208 (General Assembly resolution 62/208 and Council resolution 2008/2)

Report of the Secretary-General on the functioning of the resident coordinator system, including costs and benefits (General Assembly resolution 62/208 and Council resolution 2008/2)

Report of the Secretary-General on the triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities of the United Nations development system

Report of the Secretary-General on comprehensive statistical analysis of the financing of operational activities for development of the United Nations system for 2008 (General Assembly resolutions 35/81, 59/250, 62/208 and 63/232)

Report of the Secretary-General on actions taken by the executive boards and governing bodies of the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies in the area of simplification and harmonization of the United Nations development system (General Assembly resolution 62/208 and Council resolution 2008/2)

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

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 2009 and its first regular session and annual session of 2010 (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 2009 and its first regular session and annual session of 2010 (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 2009 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 for 2009 (General Assembly resolutions 50/8 and 62/208 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

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme of the ministerial declaration “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health”

(Council resolution 2007/272)

D.Humanitarian affairs segment

Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance

[Theme(s) to be selected (General Assembly resolution 52/12 B and Council decision 1999/208)]

E.General segment

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

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,3 including resolution 61/16

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)2

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)2

Coordination, programme and other questions

Reports of coordination bodies

Documentation

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

Annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2009/10 (Council decision 2001/321)

Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010–2011

Documentation

Relevant sections of the proposed strategic framework for the biennium 2010–2011 (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 2008/232)

Report of the Secretary-General on smoke-free United Nations premises (Council decision 2008/231)

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 (General Assembly resolution 57/147 and Council resolution 2100 (LXIII))2

Report of the President of the Economic and Social 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 2003/51)

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 2003/51)

Regional cooperation

[Theme(s) to be selected]

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-General2

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

Documentation

Sustainable development

Documentation

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

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

Science and technology for development

Documentation

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

Statistics

Documentation

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

Human settlements

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda2

Environment

Documentation

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its eleventh special session (General Assembly resolutions 2997 (XXVII) and 53/242)2

Report of the United Nations Environment Programme on the chemicals volume of the Consolidated List of Products Whose Consumption and/or Sale have been Banned, Withdrawn, Severely Restricted or Not Approved by Governments (Council resolution 2008/13)

Report of the World Health Organization on the pharmaceuticals volume of the Consolidated List of Products Whose Consumption and/or Sale have been Banned, Withdrawn, Severely Restricted or Not Approved by Governments (Council resolution 2008/13)

Population and development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Population and Development on its forty-third 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 ninth 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 fifth session (Council resolution 2004/69)

Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions

Documentation

No request for advance documentation

Cartography

Documentation

Report of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names on the work of its twenty-sixth session (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII) and 1314 (XLIV))

Women and development

Documentation

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

Social and human rights questions

Advancement of women

Documentation

Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-fourth 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)2

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-eighth 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 nineteenth session (Council resolution 1992/1)

Report of the Secretary-General on capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (Council resolution 1745 (LIV))

Narcotic drugs

Documentation

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

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2009 (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 on its forty-second and forty-third sessions (Council resolutions 1988 (LX) and 1985/17)

Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Assembly resolution 44/25, annex, article 44, para. 5)2

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (General Assembly resolution 48/141)2

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children (General Assembly resolution 62/141)2

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Documentation

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

Genetic privacy and non-discrimination

Documentation

Report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on relevant developments in the field of genetic privacy and nondiscrimination and on a possible inter-agency coordination mechanism (Council decision 2008/233)

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 2010

A.High-level segment

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

C.Coordination segment

D.Humanitarian affairs segment

E.General segment

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