A/RES/57/282 Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s and any other relevant legislative mandates, and requests the Secretary-General to submit those revisions through the Committee at its forty-third session for consideration by the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session; 6. Requests the Secretary-General, bearing in mind that the lack of time precludes further revisions to the medium-term plan at the fifty-seventh session, to prepare the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 for programmes 7 and 8 of the medium-term plan in line with the recommendations of the Committee at its forty-second session and other relevant legislative mandates; II Programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2000–2001 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2000–2001;5 2. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination15 regarding the report of the Secretary-General; III 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. Approves the following schedule of in-depth evaluations to be submitted to the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions respectively: (a) law of the sea and ocean affairs; (b) public administration, finance and development; and (c) human settlements; 3. Emphasizes the importance of the contribution of the relevant intergovernmental bodies, in particular the Main Committees of the General Assembly, in reviewing relevant recommendations on evaluation; 4. Reiterates its view that the relevant intergovernmental bodies, as well as the Economic and Social Council and the Main Committees of the General Assembly should include in their programmes of work a review of recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination relevant to their work and take appropriate action; 5. Regrets that the relevant intergovernmental bodies did not review the recommendations on evaluation of the Committee; 6. Urges those intergovernmental bodies effectively to review the relevant recommendations on evaluation to facilitate their consideration by the Fifth Committee; 7. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on strengthening the role of evaluation findings in programme design, delivery and policy directives,16 on the in-depth evaluation of the subprogrammes on General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and _______________ 15 16 Ibid., paras. 56–61. Ibid., paras. 253–259. 3