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28.
Calls upon the Commission for Social Development, as a functional
commission of the Economic and Social Council with the primary responsibility
for the follow-up to and review of the implementation of the Summit, to
develop a multi-year programme of work to the year 2000, selecting specific
themes and addressing them from an interrelated and integrated perspective, in
a manner consistent with the functions and contributions of other relevant
organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, and to present
its recommendations to the Council, which should ensure harmonization between
such a multi-year programme of work and those of other relevant functional
commissions of the Council;
29.
Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/60, and calls
upon the Commission for Social Development, when developing at its next
session its multi-year programme of work for the follow-up to the Summit:
(a)
To adapt its mandate in order to ensure an integrated approach to
social development;
(b)
To integrate the current sectoral issues on its agenda in the
multi-year programme;
(c)
To review and update its methods of work and to make
recommendations to ensure an effective follow-up to the Summit;
(d)
To establish the practice of inviting experts to contribute to its
work;
(e)
To consider integrating into its work high-level representatives
on social development issues and policies;
30.
Requests the Commission for Social Development, in view of the
scope of its work, to consider at its next session the composition of the
membership of the Commission and the frequency of its sessions and to make
recommendations thereon to the Economic and Social Council;
31.
Also requests the Commission for Social Development to establish
the practice of involving the relevant actors of civil society in the field of
social development to contribute to its work, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to present proposals to the Commission for Social Development and the
Economic and Social Council for consideration at their next sessions, taking
into account the experience gained in other functional commissions, the
Council and the International Labour Organization and at the Summit;
32.
Requests the Economic and Social Council, without prejudice to the
outcome of the review of consultative arrangements by the Open-ended Working
Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental
Organizations, to consider authorizing the participation at the next session
of the Commission for Social Development of interested civil society
organizations that participated, by accreditation, in the Summit;
33.
Invites, within their mandates, the regional commissions, in
cooperation with the regional intergovernmental organizations and banks, to
consider convening, on a biennial basis, a meeting at a high political level
to review progress made towards implementing the outcome of the Summit, to
exchange views on their respective experiences and to adopt the appropriate
measures;
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