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

A/RES/56/205View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 102 Implementation of the Habitat Agenda and outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on this topic, published in 2002.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2002

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2002	A/57/271	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/56/205

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Advisory Services Cities Conferences Coordination Within UN System Declarations Development Finance Funds Governance Human Settlements Human Settlements Management Information Dissemination Policy Making Programme Implementation Regional Commissions Right to Security of Tenure Specialized Agencies Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁷

⁷A/56/477.

Reaffirms the importance of the full implementation of all the commitments undertaken in the Habitat Agenda;1

Emphasizes the importance, at all levels of policy-making and in the context of sustainable development, of giving high priority to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium,4 including achieving the goals of adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world, particularly in developing countries;

Recognizes that the overall thrust of the new strategic vision of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)⁸ and its emphasis on the two global campaigns on secure tenure and urban governance are strategic points of entry for the effective implementation of the Habitat Agenda, especially for guiding international cooperation in respect of adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlements development;

⁸Formerly known as the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (see resolution 56/206 of 21 December 2001).

Recognizes also that Governments have the primary responsibility for the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, and stresses that the international community should fully implement its commitments to support Governments of developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their efforts, by providing the requisite means of implementation and through the creation of an international enabling environment;

Requests the relevant bodies of the United Nations system, including the specialized agencies, programmes, funds and regional commissions, as well as the World Bank and regional development banks, consistent with their respective mandates, to support fully the effective implementation at all levels of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium;

Invites local authorities and other Habitat Agenda partners to contribute to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, and encourages them to participate, as appropriate, in the Urban Forum and the Advisory Committee of Local Authorities, in their roles as advisory bodies to the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), bearing in mind the decisions of the Commission on Human Settlements on the establishment of those two bodies;

Urges the Executive Director of the Programme to assess the role and funding of the regional programme activity centres of the Programme with a view to providing improved technical cooperation services to Governments to implement the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium at all levels;

Invites Governments and the Habitat Agenda partners, including local authorities, to facilitate the dissemination of the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium;

Invites the Executive Director of the Programme to transmit the outcomes of the relevant intergovernmental processes relating to sustainable human settlements development to the preparatory processes of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, bearing in mind the relevant decisions of the preparatory processes of those two conferences;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session an item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and of the twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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