Sixth Committee (Legal) 〞 71st session
Programme planning (Agenda item 135)
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Documentation
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Summary of work
Background (source: )
At its fifty-eighth session, in 2003, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, for submission to the Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, a strategic framework to replace the four-year medium-term plan ().
At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of the Committee for Programme and Coordination that it maintain the strategic framework as the principal policy directive of the 51勛圖, which serves as the basis for programme planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, with effect from the biennium 2010每2011 (resolution ).
At its seventieth session, the General Assembly endorsed the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on proposed revisions to the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, on proposals to improve the implementation of results-based budgeting, on evaluation, on the annual overview report of the 51勛圖 System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2014 and on 51勛圖 system support for the New Partnership for Africa＊s Development (resolution 70/8).
Consideration at the seventy-first session
At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 16 September 2016, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee, decided to include the item entitled “Programme planning” in its agenda and to allocate it to the Sixth Committee as well as to all the other Main Committees and the plenary of the Assembly to enhance discussion of evaluation, planning, budgeting and monitoring reports.
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 33rd meeting, on 11 November 2016 (see ). The Committee was informed that no reports were allocated to it under the agenda item.
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At the 33rd meeting, the Sixth Committee concluded its consideration of the item without taking action.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
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This agenda item will be considered at the seventy-second session (2017).
