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10. Expresses its support for the efforts of the Secretariat to better engage and
support programme managers with the aim of making the Organization more
effective, and welcomes the commitment and ongoing efforts of the Secretariat to
improve the programmatic aspects of the programme budget;
11. Calls upon the Secretary-General to ensure that objectives, results and
performance measures that are put forward for consideration are strategic,
measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Regulations and Rules
Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the
Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation approved by
the General Assembly in its resolutions 70/8 and 72/9 are fully respected, with the
exception of regulations and rules that have been directly impacted by the decisions
taken by the Assembly in its resolution 72/266 A;
13. Notes the repeated reference “in the context of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the purposes stipulated in Article 1 of the Charter are
embodied by the Sustainable Development Goals” across the programmes,
underscores the primacy of the Charter of the United Nat ions, and reaffirms that the
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 6
are guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that results and, where possible,
performance measures actually reflect achievements in the implementation of the
programmes of the Organization and not those of individual Member States;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General, while still considering further areas
of improvement, to apply the following guidelines when preparing the next proposed
programme plan and programme performance documents for the remainder of the
approved trial period, namely, for 2021 and 2022:
(a) Adhering to a programme plan that contains the required level of detail
and information, in particular keeping the objectives, results and corresponding
performance measures at the subprogramme level, in line with the results -based
budgeting framework;
(b) Including a detailed list of deliverables in the proposed programme b udget
and ensuring that resources are justified in terms of the requirements to implement
deliverables as contributions to the planned results;
(c) Including clear, comprehensive explanations of the approved methodologies
to be applied in the context of the programme budget proposals to be submitted in
respect of the 2021 and 2022 budget periods, with reference to the applicable
provisions of relevant General Assembly resolutions, including resolutions 47/212 A
of 23 December 1992 and 72/266 A;
(d) Enhancing the link between the preceding programme plans and the
proposed future plans, with a view to ensuring consistency and con tinuity;
(e) Incorporating more general information on programmes and subprogrammes
by showing not only examples of actual and planned results, but also an overview of
activities and general strategy that encompasses a comprehensive overall account of
the actual and planned results;
(f) Presenting performance information on a comprehensive set of results,
which would allow for enhanced oversight, transparency and accountability in the
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