Multi-Year Work Programme of the Commission on Population and Development, Including the Cycle for the Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
At its 42nd plenary meeting, on 7 July 2017, the Economic and Social Council, recalling its resolution 2016/25 of 27 July 2016 and its decision 2017/208 of 23 November 2016, as well as General Assembly resolution 70/299 of 29 July 2016:
(a) Decided that, starting with its fifty-third session in 2020, the Commission on Population and Development would adopt a four-year cycle for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development62 and its contribution to the follow-up and review of the
61 Ibid., 1995, Supplement No. 7 (E/1995/27).
62 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,63 as part of a multi-year work programme aligned with the main theme of the Council and with the thematic focus of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Council;
(b) Affirmed that the Commission, according to its mandate pertaining to the Programme of Action, taking into account the integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals and their interlinkages, would contribute to the thematic reviews of progress on the Goals taking place at the high-level political forum;
(c) Decided that the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat and the United Nations Population Fund would collaborate to provide technical support to the Bureau of the Commission, on the basis of their respective complementary roles, in order to support the efficient work of the Commission, throughout the cycle for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action.
