Institutional Arrangements for International Co-Operation in the Field of Human Settlements

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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2 versions · 1977–1978

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics

Human Settlements Intergovernmental Bodies Organizational Structure Technical Cooperation

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs

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Takes into account the paragraphs agreed to by Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, as contained in the preamble and in sections I to lX of the annex to Conference resolution 1, with due respect to the foot-note to section X of that annex;

Decides to defer until its thirty-second session the decision on the type of definitive intergovernmental body for human settlements and on the organizational link and location of the human settlements secretariat, when the guidelines from the Ad Hoc Committee on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System will be in hand, the financia] implications of alternative institutional arrangements will be worked out and studied in greater depth, and the regional consultations will have been completed;

l. Requests the Ad Hoc Committee on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System to make available to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session any conclusions it has reached in the light of its over-all responsibilities which might have implications for institutional arrangements for human settlements;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to devote the necessary time at the outset of its sixty-third session to the examination of the developments in human settlements and the follow-up to Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements;

Recommends that those meetings of the Economic and Social Council should be at the expert or highest appropriate level and with the active participation of all interested delegations and that thc Council at its organizational session for 1977 should ammge the neccssary modalities to this end;

Requests the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session, as part of its agenda, to consider the report of the Secretary-General referred to in section III, paragraph 1 below, together with the views of the Ad Hoc Committee and of the regional commissions, with a view to taking action on the recommendations of the Conference regarding institutional arrangements,

bearing in mind the terrns of reference contained in paragraphs 29 to 31 of the annex to Conferenc-:: resolution 1;

Further requests the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session concrete recommendations on definitive institutional arrangements for human settlements within the United Nations;

Decides to take action on those recommendations, at the Iatest at its thirty-second session, taking into account the conclusions of the Ad Hoc Committee;

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l. Requests the Secretary-General, as an interim arrangement, to ensure, through the appropriate machinery of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, the co-ordination of the work of all the United Nations bodies concerned with respect to their activities in the human settlements field and to report to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third 5ession on the progress made;

Requests that, since definitive arrangements for human settlements are yet to be decided upon, the Secretary-General should take appropriate measures to ensure effective preparations for the discussions on human settlements questions at the sixty-third session of the Economic and Social Council, bearing in mind the contributions made by the relevant components of the United Nations system as represented in the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination;

Requests all the United Nations bodies concerned, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Centre for Housing, Building and Planning and the United Nations Habitat and Human Scttlements Foundation, to ensure that the recommendations of Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements are taken into account in their respective programmes related to human settlements and within their respective terms of reference, and to make their consultative services and resources available, as appropriate, for the implementation of national programmes of action and in strengthening regional co-oper.:ition in the field of human settlements;

IV.Requests, in this regard, the United Nations bodies

concerned, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Centre for Housing, Building and Planning, to give all possible support to the regional commissions in the strengthening of regional co-operation in the field of human settlements and further requests the regional commissions to report to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session on the results of regional co-operation in human settlements, including the progress made in the establishment of governmental regional committees on human settlements.

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