Preparations for the Special Session of the General Assembly for an Overall Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat Ii)

A/RES/55/195View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94e Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HabitatII), published in 2001.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2001

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2001	A/56/477	Twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/55/195

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Budget Contributions Cities Civil Society Coordination Within UN System Costs Extrabudgetary Financing Human Settlements Least Developed Countries Observer Status Programmes of Action Regional Commissions Slums

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the appointment of the new Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);

Requests the Secretary-General to consider further strengthening of the Centre through the provision of the requisite support and stable, adequate and predictable financial resources, including by proposing additional regular budget resources and sufficient human resources, as envisaged by the General Assembly in its resolutions 52/220 of 22 December 1997 and 53/242 of 28 July 1999, for the consideration of the Assembly, with due regard for proper United Nations budgetary procedures;

Decides that the special session shall be held from 6 to 8 June 2001 at United Nations Headquarters in New York;

Also decides that the special session shall have a plenary, an ad hoc committee of the whole and a thematic committee, the details of which shall be worked out by the Preparatory Committee at its second session;

Further decides that the provisional agenda shall include the following items:

Review and appraisal of progress made in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;⁶

⁶Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3-14 June 1996 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

Further actions and initiatives for overcoming obstacles to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

A declaration on cities and other human settlements in the new millennium;

Reiterates its invitation to Member States to participate in the special session at the highest political level possible and, in the meantime, to continue to extend support to the preparatory process;

Also reiterates its invitation to States members of the specialized agencies of the United Nations that are not Members of the United Nations, as well as Palestine, in their capacity as observers, to participate in the special session in accordance with the rules and procedures of the General Assembly;

Invites other entities having a standing invitation to participate in the United Nations as observers to participate in the special session in accordance with the rules and procedures of the General Assembly;

Decides to invite the footnoted associate members⁷ of the regional commissions to participate as observers in the special session and its preparatory process, subject to the rules of the General Assembly;

⁷American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niue, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands.

Requests the Secretary-General to consider defraying the costs not covered by General Assembly resolution 1798 (XVII) of 11 December 1962 of the participation of one governmental representative from each least developed country in the special session and the cost of their participation in the second session of the Preparatory Committee through the use of extrabudgetary resources and, in the event that those resources prove to be insufficient, requests the Secretary-General to seek extrabudgetary funding from all possible sources;

Calls upon all States in a position to do so to make voluntary financial contributions to the Secretariat to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, and their civil society partners to prepare adequately for, and be fully involved in, the preparatory process and the special session itself;

Reiterates its invitation to all relevant organs, funds and programmes, as well as the agencies of the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, to continue to contribute to and be actively involved in the preparatory process and the special session;

Welcomes the launching of the Cities Alliance initiative by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and the World Bank to implement effectively the Cities without Slums programme of action as part of the efforts to achieve the twin goals of the Habitat Agenda, namely, adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world, requests the Executive Director of the Centre to take a leadership and coordinating role in this initiative, and urges the Cities Alliance to include national Governments of developing countries as well as relevant United Nations organizations and specialized agencies in this initiative;

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to report to the special session on the Cities Alliance initiative, including on its contribution to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

Requests the Preparatory Committee and the special session to take into account the outcome of the coordination segment of the Economic and Social Council on the implementation of the Habitat Agenda within the United Nations system;⁸

⁸A/55/3, chap. V. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 3.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to it at its fifty-sixth session a report on the special session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session an item entitled “Implementation of the Habitat Agenda and outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on this topic”.

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