Programme Planning

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 116Programme planning, published in 1988.

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Africa Coordination Within UN System Cross-Organizational Programme Analyses Development Development Assistance Information Exchange Manufactures Medium-Term Plan Programme Budgeting Programme Evaluation Programme Management Programme Planning Recommendations Rules and Regulations Science and Technology Technical Cooperation Women in Development Women's Advancement

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Endorses the amendments to the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of lmplementation and the Methods of Evaluation as recommended by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-seventh session;37 2.

Stresses the need to implement fully ali the provisions ofthe Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, in particular those relating to the determination of priorities;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to consider improvement in the format and presentation of the programme budget, taking fully into account the relevant recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;38

Reitera tes the importance of the medium-term plan as the principal policy directive of the United Nations;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations and approves the proposals contained in paragraphs 100 to 102 of part two of the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination;20 3.

Praises the initiative taken by the Secretary-General to engage Member States in an early dialogue on the future activities of the Organization in accordance with section 11, paragraph 3 (b), ofresolution 41/213, and requests him to gather additional opinions, comments and suggestions from Member States on the subject with a view to the preparation of the draft introduction to the next mediumterm plan and to issue the draft introduction as soon as possible;

Requests the Secretary-General, when submitting in 1988 the draft introduction to the next medium-term plan, to take into account ali views expressed by Member States on the enclosure to his note on the preparation of the next medium-term plan,34 entitled "Sorne perspectives on the work of the United Nations in the 1990s", in particular during their discussions on this subject in the various intergovernmental organs;

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Stresses the importance and necessity of further integrating evaluation into the programme planning, budgeting and monitoring cycle with a view to improving and strengthening programme formulation and implementation;

Endorses the recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination that evaluation studies should be appropriately timed in order to be relevant to the programme cycle, that evaluation methodologies should continue to be further refined and that evaluation reports should present recommendations in two separate categories, namely, those falling within the purview of the Secretary-General for implementation and those requiring consideration, approval or action by intergovernmental bodies;39 3.

Invites the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme and the Industrial Development Board of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to consider the recommendations contained in the triennial review of the technical cooperation activities of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the field of manufactures, financed by the United Nations Development Programme,40 together with the conclusions reached by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-seventh session:41

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Takes note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 1987 /79 of 8 July 1987 on the cross-organizational review of the medium-term plans of the organizations of the United Nations system and programme analysis in the area of science and technology for development, and 1987 /86 of 8 July 1987 on the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development and system-wide coordination ofthe implementation ofthe Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination on the cross-organizational review of the medium-term plans of the organizations of the United Nations system and programme analysis in the area of science and technology for development;42 3.

Agrees with the recommendation of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination that a crossorganizational programme analysis on the question of the advancement of women should be submitted to the Committee at its twenty-ninth session in 1989 with the understanding contained in paragraph 11 of part two of the report of the Committee;20 V

Takes note of Economic and Social Council resolutions 1987/82 and 1987/85 of 8 July 1987;

Accepts, as agreed by the members ofthe Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and the Administra ti ve Committee on Co-ordination and endorsed by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 1987/194, that the topic for the twenty-third series of Joint Meetings of the two Committees shall be "The response of the United Nations system to development problems, with special attention to the implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990";

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Endorses those other conclusions and recommendations ofthe Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-seventh session20 which have not otherwise been approved by the General Assembly at its forty- ~econd session;

Decides that the relevant conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination, as well as the related portions of its report, should be brought to the attention of the Main Committees of the General Assembly for information;

Reiterates the need to implement the provisions of section II of Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/51 of 22 July 1986, in particular those concerning priority setting;

Requests the Committee for Programme and Coordination to keep under review its schedule of meetings,

taking into account the new responsibilities assigned to it, and to report thereon as necessary to the General Assembly at its forty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council.

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