United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases

E/RES/2013/12View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 7g Tobacco or health, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2013–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2025/30

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/RES/2025/30	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases	295	18%Compare
2024	E/RES/2024/17	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,495	59%Compare
2021	E/RES/2021/27	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,953	88%Compare
2020	E/RES/2020/22	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,793	63%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/9	United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases	1,208	50%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Inter-Agency Cooperation Non-Communicable Diseases Programme Implementation Public Health Task Forces

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General to establish the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases by expanding the mandate⁶ of the existing Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control, with this Task Force to be convened and led by the World Health Organization, to report to the Economic and Social Council through the Secretary-General and to incorporate the work of the Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control, including the work to support the accelerated implementation by parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;Error: Reference source not found

⁶See resolutions 1993/79, 1994/47, 1995/62, 1999/56, 2004/62, 2010/8 and 2012/4.

Decides that the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases will coordinate the activities of the relevant United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies and other intergovernmental organizations to support the realization of the commitments made by Heads of State and Government in the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,Error: Reference source not found in particular through the implementation of the World Health Organization Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases 2013–2020;

Urges all members of the existing Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control⁷ and other United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies and intergovernmental organizations to contribute, within their respective mandates, as appropriate, to the activities of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases;

⁷World Health Organization, secretariat of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund, International Telecommunication Union, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Fund for International Partnerships, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, World Customs Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization and World Trade Organization.

Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization, and in full consultation with Member States through the World Health Organization, to develop the terms of reference for the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, incorporating, but not limited to, the work of the Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control and the current work of the secretariat of the World Health Organization to develop a division of tasks and responsibilities, as exemplified in appendix 4 to the World Health Organization Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases 2013–2020, and also requests the Secretary-General to include the terms of reference in his report on the implementation of the present resolution for the consideration of the Council at its substantive session of 2014.

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