Implementation of the Outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat Ii) and Strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat)

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 50 Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2005–2016

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/70/210

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/RES/70/210	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	8,205	13%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/226	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	2,614	29%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/239	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	1,866	21%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/216	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	1,689	19%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/207	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	1,939	23%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

12 reports · 2005–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/347	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/210
2015	A/70/210	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/226
2014	A/69/298	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/239
2013	A/68/332	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/67/216
2012	A/67/263	Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/207

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Developing Countries Development Banks Donor Countries Economies in Transition Financial Assistance Human Settlements International Financial Institutions Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Resources Allocation Resources Mobilization Sanitation Slums Technical Cooperation Trust Funds Urban Poverty Urban Settlements

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda¹⁰ and the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat);¹¹

¹⁰E/2008/64.

¹¹A/63/291.

Welcomes the efforts of UN-Habitat in the implementation of its Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan for the period 2008–2013, and encourages Governments in a position to do so, and other stakeholders, to contribute to UN-Habitat so as to further strengthen its efforts in institutional reform and the pursuit of management excellence, including results-based management;

Encourages Governments to promote the principles and practice of sustainable urbanization and strengthen the role and contribution of their respective local authorities in applying those principles and practice, in order to improve the living conditions of vulnerable urban populations, including slum-dwellers and the urban poor, and as a major contribution to mitigating the causes of climate change, adapting to the effects of climate change and reducing risks and vulnerabilities in a rapidly urbanizing world, including human settlements in fragile ecosystems, and invites the international donor community to support the efforts of developing countries in this regard;

Reiterates its call for continued financial support to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary contributions, and invites Governments in a position to do so, and other stakeholders, to provide predictable multi-year funding and increased non-earmarked contributions to support the strategic and institutional objectives of the Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan for the period 2008–2013 and its Global Campaign on Sustainable Urbanization;

Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and the technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN-Habitat to assist developing countries in mobilizing public investment and private capital for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services;

Also invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute to the Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations Trust Fund of the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of UN-Habitat under review so as to enhance its effectiveness in supporting national policies, strategies and plans in attaining the poverty eradication, gender equality, water and sanitation and slum upgrading targets of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,1 the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation2 and the 2005 World Summit Outcome;6

Calls upon UN-Habitat to strengthen efforts to coordinate and implement its normative and operational activities through the enhanced normative and operational framework elaborated in the Medium-term Strategic and Institutional Plan, reinforcing its normative activities, and invites all countries in a position to do so to support the activities of UN-Habitat in this regard;

Invites UN-Habitat to enhance cooperation with regional and subregional organizations and to consider strengthening the strategic presence of its programmes in the regions in contributing to sustainable development programmes;

Requests UN-Habitat, within the framework of its experimental reimbursable seeding operations for housing finance, and in close collaboration with international and regional financial institutions, to document and disseminate lessons learned, bearing in mind the provisions of resolution 21/10 of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat,8 and fully taking into account the recent housing finance crisis, as well as other relevant factors;

Invites the Governing Council of UN-Habitat to keep under review developments in the housing finance systems in view of the current financial crisis, and decides to explore the possibility of convening a high-level event of the General Assembly on this subject;

Encourages Member States to strengthen or establish, as appropriate, broad-based national Habitat committees with a view to mainstreaming sustainable urbanization and urban poverty reduction in their respective national development strategies;

Encourages the Economic and Social Council to include sustainable urbanization, urban poverty reduction and slum upgrading as a cross-cutting issue in the follow-up to the outcome of relevant summits and major international conferences;

Emphasizes the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of UN-Habitat, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to UN-Habitat and the other United Nations organs and organizations in Nairobi;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session the item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”.

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