A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/256 27 April 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 118 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/511/Add.2)] 54/256. Outsourcing practices in the United Nations The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of outsourcing practices at the United Nations,1 the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “The challenge of outsourcing for the United Nations system”2 and the comments of the Administrative Committee on Coordination thereon,3 as well as the report of the Secretary-General on outsourcing practices in the United Nations4 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,5 1. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that programme managers are guided by the basic reasons for outsourcing, as indicated in paragraph 4 of his report,4 and the goals, as indicated in paragraph 13 of the report; 2. Endorses the United Nations guidelines on outsourcing set out in the report of the SecretaryGeneral,6 pending consideration of the report requested in paragraph 3 below; 1 A/51/804, annex. 2 See A/52/338. A/52/338/Add.1, annex. 3 4 5 6 A/53/818. A/53/942. A/53/818, sect. III. 00 38992 /...