Unified Approach to Economic and Social Planning in National Development

A/RES/2681(XXV)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1971.

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12 topics

Data Collection Development Planning Development Policy Economic Planning Experts Human Resources Income Distribution Social Planning Social Policy Technical Cooperation Technical Training Vocational Training

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11 operative paragraphs

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1494 (XLVIII) of 26 May 1970, in which the Council emphasized the views expressed in the report of the Meeting of Experts on Social Policy and Planning in National Development on the aims and content of such an approach;

Supports, in particular, the views of the experts regarding the need to include in such an approach components which are designed:

To leave no sector of the population outside the scope of change and development;

To effect structural change which favours national development and to activate all sectors of the population to participate in the development process;

To aim at social equity, including the achievement of an equitable distribution of income and wealth in the nation;

To give high priority to the development of human potentials, including vocational and technical training, the provision of employment opportunities and meeting the needs of childen; the above criteria to be borne in mind in development analysis and planning processes, as well as in their implications, according to the particular developmental needs of each country;

Requests those bodies responsible for the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade,26 as well as for the various social and economic longterm plans and programmes worked out within the United Nations system in the context of the Decade and for the review and appraisal of objectives and policies during the Decade, to aim at the most effective integration of policy measures across the different sectors, based, inter alia, on the principles and guidelines embodied in the unified approach;

Further requests the Economic and Social Council to ensure the contribution of the Commission for Social Development to the aspects of the International Development Strategy directly related to matters within the Commission's competence;

Requests the Secretary-General to suggest, in co-operation with other organizations of the United Nations system and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, specific measures for the refinement and unification of methods for collecting and evaluating social data and information at the national and international levels, in the context of the study requested by the Economic and Social Council in resolution 1494 (XLVIII);

Further requests the Secretary-General, in the context of the above-mentioned study, to evolve methods and techniques for the application of a unified approach to development, to be put at the disposal of Governments at their request;

211 E/CN.5/445 and Corr.I.

28 Resolution 2626 (XXV). General Auemhly-Twenty-fifth SeHion

Stresses the need, in the context of the objectives of the Second United Nations Development Decade, for financial and technical assistance to support initiatives leading to the achievement of a unified approach to development.

11 December 1970.

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