Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1989.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1988–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/191

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Budget Contributions Coordination Within UN System Debt Relief Environmental Management Guidelines Housing Finance Housing Policy Human Settlements Popular Participation Programme Management Socially Disadvantaged Persons Women in Development

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16 operative paragraphs

Adopts the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000;

Decides that the main objective of the Strategy is to facilitate adequate shelter for ali by the year 2000, that the main focus should therefore be on improving the situation of the disadvantaged and the poor and that the following fundamental objectives and principies should form the basis of the Strategy:

Enabling policies, whereby the full potential and resources of ali governmental and non-governmental actors in the field ofhuman settlements are utilized, must be at the heart of national and international efforts;

Women, as income-earners, home-makers and (b) heads of households, and women's organizations fulfil a crucial role as contributors to the solution of human settlements problems, which should be fully recognized and reflected in equal participation of women in the elaboration ofhousing policies, programmes and projects, and the specific interests and capabilities of women should be adequately represented in human settlements policy formulation and in government mechanisms employed at all levels for the implementation of housing policies, programmes and projects;

Shelter and development are mutually supportive and interdependent, and policies must be developed in full recognition of the important links between shelter and economic development;

The concept of sustainable development implies that the provision of shelter and urban development must be reconcilable with a sustainable management of the environment;

Designates the Commission on Human Settlements as the United Nations intergovernmental body responsible for co-ordinating, evaluating and monitoring the Strategy and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements

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as the secretariat for the Strategy and the lead agency for co-ordinating and monitoring the relevant programmes and activities of other United Nations organizations and agencies concerned:

Urges Governments to develop appropriate national and sub-national strategies for shelter in the light of the guidelines provided in the report ofthe Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements

Habitat

entitled "Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000"19 and to report regularly to the Commission on Human Settlements, beginning at its twelfth session, on their relevant experience and on progress achieved in implementing those strategies;

Requests the Executive Director to monitor the relevant global experience and progress of ali countries in implementing the Strategy and to report thereon to the Commission, beginning at its thirteenth session;

Decides to review and clarify the Strategy on a biennial basis, within regular budgetary resources, with the assistance of experts selected on the basis of equitable geographic representation, and to revise the Strategy in the light of global and national experience from ali regions and subregions;

Requests the Commission on Human Settlements, as the body designated to co-ordinate implementation of the Strategy, to report biennially to the General Assembly on progress made in its implementation;

Also requests the Commission to strengthen, within existing resources, its role in regard to the promotion of innovative measures by which bilateral and multilateral financia! institutions may support the shelter strategies of developing countries, for example, by way of suitably devised loan agreements that would lead to the building up of national revolving funds for shelter;

Requests financia! institutions and creditor countries to consider, as one ofthe conditions for the success of the Strategy, immediate measures to reduce the externa! debts by their conversion into long-term loans;

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Adopts the guidelines for steps to be taken at the national and international levels, as set out in the annex to the present resolution, in support of the guidelines fornational and international action contained in the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, l9 prepared pursuant to its resolution 42/ 191;

Ca/ls upan ali States and others in a position to do so to make generous contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation to facilitate implementation of the Strategy.

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