A/RES/50/120
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46.
Urges the members of the United Nations development system to
adopt a more collaborative approach in preparing reports at all levels;
47.
Requests the Secretary-General to promote the creation or further
development of common guidelines on procedures relating to, inter alia,
programme components and project formulation, appraisal, implementation,
monitoring, evaluation and administration, in fulfilment of paragraph 33 of
General Assembly resolution 47/199;
48.
Takes note of Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/50 of
28 July 1995, in which the Council decided that the high-level meeting of the
operational activities segment of its substantive session of 1996 should focus
on strengthening collaboration between the United Nations development system
and the Bretton Woods institutions in the area of social and economic
development at all levels, including the field level;
49.
Takes note of the mission statement of the World Food Programme
and the decision of the executive boards of the United Nations Development
Programme/United Nations Population Fund and of the United Nations Children’s
Fund to establish mission statements for their respective organizations;
50.
Emphasizes the importance of disseminating the experience of
effective and efficient cooperation with the United Nations development
system, inter alia, through interregional projects of technical cooperation,
and urges the United Nations system to give support to such activities;
51.
Calls upon the United Nations system, in implementing the present
resolution, to bear in mind the specific requirements of the continuum from
humanitarian assistance through rehabilitation to development;
52.
Requests the Secretary-General, after consultations with the
funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, to
present to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1996
an appropriate management process containing clear guidelines, targets,
benchmarks and time-frames for the full implementation of the present
resolution;
53.
Invites the Economic and Social Council, during the operational
activities segment of its substantive sessions of 1996 and 1997, to examine
the operational activities of the United Nations system with a view to
ensuring the full implementation of the present resolution;
54.
Also invites the Economic and Social Council, at its substantive
session of 1996, to consider, inter alia, the issues of harmonization and
administrative services, common premises and monitoring and evaluation, and,
at its substantive session of 1997, to consider, inter alia, capacitybuilding, field and regional-level coordination, and resources, on the basis
of progress reports by the Secretary-General, including appropriate
recommendations;
55.
Reaffirms that the governing bodies of the funds, programmes and
specialized agencies of the United Nations system should take appropriate
action for the full implementation of the present resolution, and requests the
executive heads of those funds, programmes and specialized agencies, bearing
in mind paragraph 46 of the present resolution, to submit a yearly progress
report to their governing bodies on measures taken and envisaged for the
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