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20. Notes that the proposals requested in paragraph 50 of the annex to General Assembly resolution
51/241 of 31 July 1997 have not been submitted, and, in this context, reiterates its request to the SecretaryGeneral to enhance the role and participation of all relevant departments, in particular the Office of Programme
Planning, Budget and Accounts, in the preparation of future programme performance reports;
VI
EVALUATION
1. Stresses the importance and necessity of further improving evaluation and integrating it into the cycle
of programme planning, budgeting and monitoring with a view to improving and strengthening programme
formulation and implementation;
2. Also stresses that the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects
of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation provide a sound basis for
effective monitoring and evaluation if implemented in all parts of the Organization;
3. Approves the addition of the programmes on policy coordination and sustainable development and on
population to the schedule of in-depth evaluations to be submitted to the Committee for Programme and
Coordination at its forty-first session;
4. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee15 on the in-depth evaluations of the
United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice Programme and on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the
Committee at its thirty-fifth session on the start-up phase of the evaluation of peacekeeping operations;16
5. Decides to forward to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme the
triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee at its thirty-fifth session
on the evaluation of the programme on environment;17
6. Emphasizes that guidelines on programme monitoring and evaluation should be in conformity with the
Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring
of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation;
VII
OTHER CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE
FOR PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION
15
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/53/16), part one,
paras. 225-230, 239-241 and 250-253.
16
E/AC.51/1998/2 and Corr.1, E/AC.51/1998/3 and E/AC.51/1998/4 and Corr.1.
17
E/AC.51/1998/5 and Corr.1.
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