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Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation,4 priority-setting within the medium-term plan
and the
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programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 1996–1997, as well as the note by the
Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on strengthening the role
of evaluation findings in programme design, delivery and policy directives,7
1. Welcomes the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the work of its thirty-eighth
session;3
2. Notes the appreciable efforts made at the thirty-eighth session of the Committee to improve the working
methods and procedures of the Committee within the framework of its mandate;
3. Reaffirms the role of the Committee as the main subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and the
Economic and Social Council for planning, programming and coordination;
4. Takes note of the conclusions and recommendations contained in part one, chapter V, of the report of
the Committee on the work of its thirty-eighth session, and looks forward to their implementation;
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MEDIUM-TERM PLAN FOR THE PERIOD 1998–2001
1. Reaffirms regulation 4.2 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme
Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, and requests the
Secretary-General to ensure full compliance with this regulation;
2. Adopts the proposed revisions to the medium-term plan for the period 1998–2001 submitted by the
Secretary-General,1 as amended by the Committee for Programme and Coordination;8
3.
Emphasizes the importance of the consultative process with Member States;
4. Also emphasizes the importance of the contribution of the sectoral, regional and central
intergovernmental bodies, in particular the Main Committees of the General Assembly, in reviewing and
improving the quality of the medium-term plan and its revisions;
5. Regrets that revisions to some programmes of the medium-term plan for the period 1998–2001 were
not reviewed by the relevant intergovernmental bodies;
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A/53/133.
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A/53/134.
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A/53/122 and Add.1.
7
A/53/90.
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/53/16), part one,
chap. II.B, and part two, chap. III.A.
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