A/RES/75/233
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 25 (a)
Operational activities for development: operational
activities for development of the United Nations system
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 December 2020
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/75/463/Add.1, para. 21)]
75/233.
Quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities
for development of the United Nations system
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of
operational activities, through which the General Assembly establishes key system wide strategic policy orientations and operational modalities for the development
cooperation and country-level modalities of the United Nations development system,
Expressing its resolve to use this review as the main instrument to provide
guidance to the United Nations development system on its operational activities for
development in order to support countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development in a coherent and integrated manner and ensure effective
delivery of support and services to programme countries in line with the mandates of
the entities of the United Nations development system, and in accordance with national
development policies, plans, priorities and needs, and that efforts are strengthened and
accelerated in this decade of action and delivery for sustainable development, building
upon a United Nations development system that is more strategic, accountable,
transparent, coherent, collaborative, efficient, effective and results-oriented,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our
world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the
full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all
its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and
an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to ac hieving
sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental –
in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the
Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
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