Development-Related Activities

A/RES/63/260View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118Programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009, published in 2008.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

4 entities

Extracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics

Africa Developing Countries International Trade Landlocked Developing Countries Programme Planning Small Island Developing States Staffing Sustainable Development

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on improving the effective and efficient delivery of the mandates of development-related activities and revised estimates relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009Error: Reference source not found and the Development Account;Error: Reference source not found

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,Error: Reference source not found subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Acknowledges that peace and security, development and human rights are the pillars of the United Nations system and the foundations for collective security and well-being, and recognizes that development, peace and security and human rights are interlinked and mutually reinforcing;

Stresses the importance of a coherent vision of the Secretariat’s role in the global development architecture;

Encourages the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairman of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to enhance the coordination of the United Nations development system with a view to ensuring greater synergies, effectiveness, efficiencies and coherence of efforts in the delivery of its social, economic and development mandates;

Decides to establish the posts as contained in the annex to the present resolution;

Also decides that the posts for section 17, Economic and social development in Africa, section 18, Economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific, section 19, Economic development in Europe, section 20, Economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and section 21, Economic and social development in Western Asia, shall be established effective 1 January 2009, and the posts for section 9, Economic and social affairs, section 10, Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, section 11, United Nations support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and section 12, Trade and development, shall be established effective 1 July 2009;

Further decides not to abolish the post of the Special Adviser on Africa at the level of Under-Secretary-General;

Decides not to approve the non-post resources for travel of staff, consultants and experts and contractual services, excluding the regional commissions;

Requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the present resolution within the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013.

Development-related activities: posts to be established under the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009

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