Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97eImplementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), published in 1998.

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6 versions · 1988–1998

1998A/RES/52/191Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000LatestCompare with previous version
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1992A/RES/46/163Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000Compare with previous version
1990A/RES/44/173Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000Compare with previous version
1989A/RES/43/181Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000Compare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Environment Housing Finance Housing Policy Human Settlements Programmes of Action

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs

Commends Governments that are already revising, consolidating, formulating or implementing their national shelter strategies based on the enabling principles of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, as elaborated in the Habitat Agenda;1

Urges Governments, in connection with the implementation of their national plans of action on human settlements, to adopt or strengthen integrated national shelter strategies based on the enabling approach and sustainable development;

Also urges Governments to integrate fully the environmental dimension in the formulation and implementation of national shelter strategies, taking into account the relevant components of Agenda 21;

Recommends that Governments extend the application of urban and housing indicators to cities and rural settlements for monitoring the progress of their national shelter strategy and the performance of the shelter sector, taking into account local conditions and sensitivity to gender considerations;

Urges the international community to strengthen its support for national efforts to formulate and implement enabling shelter strategies in developing countries, as recommended in Agenda 21;

Urges the organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, and other multilateral and bilateral agencies to provide, on the basis of an approach consistent with the Global Strategy, increased financial and other support to Governments for achieving the objective of adequate shelter for all;

Adopts the plan of action for the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 during the biennium 1998-1999, and urges Governments, relevant United Nations and private sector organizations, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to prepare and implement their specific plans of action;

Decides to subsume the sixth report of the Commission on Human Settlements to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, as called for in Assembly resolution 43/181, under the report of the Secretary-General to the Assembly on the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, to be submitted pursuant to Assembly resolution 51/177 of 16 December 1996.

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