United Nations
A/RES/71/243
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 24 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/468 (Add.1))]
71/243. 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 systemwide 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 better
position United Nations operational activities for development to support countries
in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in a
coherent and integrated manner in line with the mandates of the e ntities of the
United Nations development system, and recognizing that this requires a United
Nations development system that is more strategic, accountable, transparent,
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 achieving 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,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms t he strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
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