Report of the Commission for Social Development on its 56th session and provisional agenda and documentation for its 57th session — E/DEC/2018/219 | UN Mandate Registry
Report of the Commission for Social Development on Its 56th Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for Its 57th Session
At its 17th plenary meeting, on 17 April 2018, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Commission for Social Development on its fifty-sixth session;14
(b) Approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-seventh 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: addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the priority theme
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 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 implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes
13 E/2018/32 (Part I).
14 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 6 (E/2018/26).
c
Emerging issues (to be determined).
Documentation
Note by the Secretary-General on emerging issues
4
Programme questions and other matters:
a
Proposed programme plan for 2020;
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 plan for 2020
5
Provisional agenda for the fifty-eighth session of the Commission.
6
Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-seventh session.
