A/RES/59/296 7. Also encourages the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that all peacekeeping missions formally identify the training needs of all procurement officers and communicate these needs to Headquarters in order to ensure that training follows proper planning and evaluation of its effectiveness; XVII Asset management 1. Reiterates that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations should ensure that all missions implement an assets replacement programme in a cost-effective manner and in strict compliance with the guidelines on the life expectancy of assets; Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the heads of the 2. peacekeeping operations take effective measures to ensure inventory control, replenishment of stocks and reasonable write-off procedures for the disposal of assets no longer required or useful; Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that formal written 3. agreements are in place, which include elements such as financial reimbursement and liability, with other United Nations bodies before loaning out to them resources belonging to a peacekeeping operation; Commends the ongoing efforts to increase cooperation between missions, 4. particularly those in the same region, and stresses that any agreement on the loan or sharing of mission assets should be clearly understood and documented by the missions involved, bearing in mind that individual operations should remain responsible for preparing and overseeing their own budgets as well as for controlling their own assets and logistical operations; XVIII Information technology Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the functional requirements of field missions for communication and information technology 32 and on the information and communications technology strategy: arrangements for the Galaxy system 33 and the relevant section of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 34 1. Requests the Secretary-General to take fully into account the return on investment for information and communication technology and to report on its impact on the resource requirements for the support account for peacekeeping operations; Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of 2. the information and communications technology strategy adopted by the General Assembly in order to avoid unnecessary redundancies; Further requests the Secretary-General to implement the Galileo system 3. in all peacekeeping operations in order to unify peacekeeping operations inventory; _______________ 32 A/58/740. A/59/265/Add.1. 34 See A/59/736, sect. III.E. 33 13