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Considers it appropriate to regard a unified air proach to development analysis and planning at the national level covering all sectors of the national economy, public and private, as a means for the attainment of balanced social, economic and human development;
2
Believes that the application of a unified approach is connected with carrying out basic social and economic structural changes;
3
Recognizes that, among other measures, stn:ngthening of the public sector will contribute to effective national planning;
4
InvitesGovernments to take account of the provisions of Economic and Social Council resolution 17 4 7
(LIV) in the application of a unified approach to development analysis and planning;
5
Endorses the application of a unified approach to development analysis and planning in the regional commissions and other United Nations bodies concerned;
19 See E/CN.5/519.
20 See E/5430.
6
Commends the Secretary-General for his efforts to integrate the activities related to the social and economic aspects of development within the Secretariat;
7
Requeststhe Secretary-General:
a
To continue to study the question of a unified approach to development analysis and planning with a view to preparing proposals for action-oriented guidelines thereon;
b
To prepare a report on the application by Governments of a unified approach to development analysis and planning in conjunction with the preparation of a report by the Secretary-General for the next biennial review and appraisal of progress in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade as provided in General Assembly resolution 2626 (XXV),
taking into account the contributions made in this regard by recent major United Nations conferences;
c
To submit that report to the Commission for Social Development at its twenty-fifth session and to the Committee for Development Planning at its thirteenth session for their analysis and appropriate recommendations;
8
Requeststhat the report mentioned in paragraph 7 ( b) and ( c) above be fully taken into account in carrying out the biennial review and appraisal of the International Development Strategy;
9
Invitesthe Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with the Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, suggestions for pilot projects on the practical application of a unified approach to development, taking into account the reports mentioned in the third preambular paragraph above, and to submit these suggestions to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-first session;
10
Requeststhe Economic and Social Council to analyse and appraise the progress made in this field in conjunction with its review and appraisal of the International Development Strategy at its sixty-third session;
11
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-second session the item entitled "Unified approach to development analysis and planning", with a view to considering the economic as well as the social aspects of that question.
