Special Committee on Co-Ordination with Particular Emphasis on the United Nations Development Decade

E/RES/920(XXXIV)View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1962.

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13 topics

Coordination Within UN System Dissolution Economic Development Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Establishment Housing Industrialization International Decades Members Public Information Rural Development Terms of Reference Urbanization

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Decides to establish a special committee consisting of representatives of eleven States members of the Council or the Technical Assistance Committee — to be elected annually at its resumed summer session on the basis of equitable geographical distribution — who should be conversant with the programmes and activities of the United Nations in the economic, social, human rights and related fields, and of the related agencies, as well as with the practice and procedures of co-ordination among these organizations;

Decides further that this special committee shall have the following functions:

(i) To keep under review the activities of the United Nations and its related agencies in the economic, social, human rights and related fields in the United Nations Development Decade;

To consider, wherever appropriate, in consultation with the agencies concerned, priority areas or projects relating to the objectives of the United Nations Development Decade in accordance with its resolution 916 (XXXIV) of 3 August 1962;

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To submit recommendations on these matters to the Council;

To assume the functions of the ad hoc Working Group on Co-ordination as follows:

To study the reports of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, appropriate reports of the United Nations organs, the annual reports of the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency and other relevant documents;

To submit its conclusions to the Council, for consideration, in the form of a concise statement of the issues and problems in the field of co-ordination arising from these documents which call for special attention by the Council;

Requests the Committee, in fulfilling its task under paragraph 2 (a) above, to take into account any special observations which the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination may deem it appropriate to submit;

Further requests the Committee to take into account the activities of the ad hoc Committee of Ten on coordination of technical assistance activities;

Decides to convene the Special Committee in the first instance in February 1963.

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