Future Organization and Methods of Work of the Commission for Social Development

E/RES/2016/6View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19b Social development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2006–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2025/5

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/RES/2025/5	Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development	1,724	80%Compare
2023	E/RES/2023/12	Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development	1,482	95%Compare
2021	E/RES/2021/8	Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development	1,451	96%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/4	Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development	1,424	49%Compare
2018	E/RES/2018/3	Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development	1,485	48%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

9 reports · 2006–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	E/CN.5/2026/3	Advancing social development and social justice through coordinated, equitable and inclusive policies report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2025/5
2023	E/CN.5/2024/3	Fostering social development and social justice through social policies to accelerate progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to achieve the overarching goal of poverty eradication report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2023/12
2021	E/CN.5/2022/3	Inclusive and resilient recovery from COVID-19 for sustainable livelihoods, well-being and dignity for all eradicating poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions to achieve the 2030 Agenda : report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2021/8
2018	E/CN.5/2019/3	Addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2018/3
2011	E/CN.5/2012/3	Poverty eradication report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2010/10

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Social Development Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the Commission for Social Development, as a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council, in promoting the integrated treatment of social development issues in the United Nations system, shall review, on a periodic basis, issues related to the follow-up and implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development3 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development,4 in a manner consistent with the functions and contributions of the relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, and shall advise the Council thereon;

Affirms that the Commission will contribute to the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,⁹ within its existing mandate, by supporting the thematic reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development on progress on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, including cross-cutting issues, which should reflect the integrated nature of the Goals as well as the interlinkages between them, while engaging all relevant stakeholders and, where possible, feeding into and being aligned with the cycle of the high-level political forum, according to the organizational arrangements to be established by the General Assembly and the Council;

⁹General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Decides that the Commission will report on social aspects related to the agreed main theme of the Council in order to contribute to its work;

Also decides to maintain the two-year review and policy cycle for the 2017 and 2018 sessions of the Commission;

Reaffirms that the officers elected to the Bureau of the Commission shall continue to be elected for a term of office of two years, in parallel with the 2017–2018 review and policy cycle;

Decides that the priority theme for the 2017–2018 review and policy cycle, which shall allow the Commission to contribute to the work of the Council, will be “Strategies for eradicating poverty to achieve sustainable development for all”;

Also decides to consider the biennialization of the resolutions of the Commission, with a view to eliminating duplication and overlap and promoting complementarity in the consideration and negotiation of similar or related issues between the Council and the General Assembly;

Invites all relevant stakeholders to continue to actively participate in the work of the Commission at an appropriately high level;

Encourages non-governmental organizations, as well as other civil society actors, to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in line with Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July 1996, in the work of the Commission and in the monitoring and implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly;2

Decides that the Commission shall keep its methods of work under review, including at its fifty-fifth session in 2017, in order to adjust, as appropriate, to the work and the cycle of the Council.

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