Report of the Commission for Social Development on its 54th session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 55th session — E/DEC/2016/225 | UN Mandate Registry
Report of the Commission for Social Development on Its 54th Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for Its 55th Session
At its 28th plenary meeting, on 2 June 2016, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Commission for Social Development on its fifty-fourth session;16
(b) Approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-fifth session of the Commission as set out below:
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
3
Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly:
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
a
Priority theme: strategies for the eradication of poverty to achieve sustainable development for all;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on strategies for the eradication of poverty to achieve sustainable development for all
b
Review of relevant United Nations plans and programmes of action pertaining to the situation of social groups:
i
World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons;
ii
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities;
iii
World Programme of Action for Youth;
iv
Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002;
v
Family issues, policies and programmes;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the further implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth
Report of the Secretary-General on promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and strengthening the mainstreaming of disability in the post-2015 development agenda
c
Emerging issues (to be determined).
Documentation
Note by the Secretary-General
4
Programme questions and other matters:
a
Proposed programme of work for the biennium 2018–2019;
16 Ibid., Supplement No. 6 (E/2016/26).
b
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Documentation
Note by the Secretary-General on the nomination of members of the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Note by the Secretariat on the proposed programme of work of the Division for Social Policy and Development for the biennium 2018–2019
5
Provisional agenda for the fifty-sixth session of the Commission.
6
Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-fifth session.
