Improving the Governance and Financial Situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Extension of the Mandate of the Standing Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Improving the Governance and Financial Situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

E/DEC/2017/236View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2017.

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6 versions · 2011–2022

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2022/316

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2022	E/DEC/2022/316	Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: extension of the mandate of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	1,262	14%Compare
2021	E/DEC/2021/218	Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: extension of the mandate of the standing Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Improving the Governance and Financial Situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	227	26%Compare
2017	E/DEC/2017/236	Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: extension of the mandate of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	772	61%Compare
2015	E/DEC/2015/234	Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: extension of the mandate of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	717	—
2014	E/DEC/2013/246	Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime extension of the mandate of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	—	—

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At its 40th plenary meeting, on 6 July 2017, the Economic and Social Council, recalling its decision 2015/234 of 21 July 2015, entitled “Improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: extension of the mandate of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime”, in which it, inter alia, reaffirmed Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 52/13 of 20 March 200925 and Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 18/3 of 24 April 200926 and decided to renew the mandate of the working group until the part of the sessions of the Commissions to be held in the first half of 2017, at which time the Commissions would carry out a thorough review of the functioning of the working group and consider the extension of its mandate:

(a) Reaffirmed the efficiency of the working group;

(b) Also reaffirmed the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the principal policymaking organ of the United Nations on matters of international drug control and as the governing body of the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the role of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice as the principal policymaking organ of the United Nations on matters of crime prevention and criminal justice and as the governing body of the crime programme of the Office;

(c) Expressed once again its continued concern about the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and also expressed its awareness of the continued need to address that situation in a pragmatic, results-oriented, efficient and cooperative manner;

(d) Reaffirmed Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 52/13 and Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 18/3, as well as Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolutions 54/10 of 25 March 2011,27 54/17 of 13 December 2011,28 56/11 of 15 March 201329 and 58/1 of 17 March 2015,30 and Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolutions 20/1 of 13 April 2011,31 20/9 of 13 December 2011,32 22/2 of 26 April

23 Resolution 2017/1.

24 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2016, Supplement No. 10A (E/2016/30/Add.1).

25 Ibid., 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I, sect. C.

26 Ibid., Supplement No. 10 (E/2009/30), chap. I, sect. D.

27 Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 8 (E/2011/28), chap. I, sect. C.

28 Ibid., Supplement No. 8A (E/2011/28/Add.1), chap. I, sect. C.

29 Ibid., 2013, Supplement No. 8 (E/2013/28), chap. I, sect. C.

30 Ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 8 (E/2015/28), chap. I, sect. C.

31 Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 10 (E/2011/30), chap. I, sect. D.

32 Ibid., Supplement No. 10A (E/2011/30/Add.1), chap. I, sect. C.

201333 and 24/1 of 22 May 2015,34 and decided to renew the mandate of the working group until the part of the sessions of the Commissions to be held in the first half of 2021, at which time the Commissions should carry out a thorough review of the functioning of the working group and consider the extension of its mandate;

(e) Decided that the working group should hold formal and informal meetings in line with current practice, and that the dates of those meetings should be determined by the Co-Chairs of the working group, in consultation with the Secretariat;

(f) Requested that the relevant documentation be provided to the working group not later than 10 working days before a meeting;

(g) Reiterated the importance of the development by Member States of an indicative annual workplan, taking into account inputs from the Secretariat, in order to guide the work of the working group, and approved the provisional agenda of the working group as set out below:

Biennial consolidated budget for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Human resources management at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Mainstreaming a gender perspective into the practices, policies and programmes of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Evaluation and oversight.

Other matters.

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