A/RES/60/257 United Nations General Assembly Sixtieth session Agenda item 125 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 May 2006 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/60/747)] 60/257. Programme planning The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 37/234 of 21 December 1982, 38/227 A of 20 December 1983, 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 55/234 of 23 December 2000, 56/253 of 24 December 2001, 57/282 of 20 December 2002, 58/268 and 58/269 of 23 December 2003 and 59/275 of 23 December 2004, Recalling also the terms of reference of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as outlined in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 2008 (LX) of 14 May 1976, Having considered the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the work of its forty-fifth session 1 and the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation, 2 Having received the letter from the President of the General Assembly transmitting the recommendations of the Second Committee concerning the evaluation of linkages between headquarters and field activities: a review of best practices for poverty eradication in the framework of the United Nations Millennium Declaration and concerning the in-depth evaluation of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 3 1. Reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as the main subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council for planning, programming and coordination; 2. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as contained in paragraphs 36 to 39, 135 to 139, 151 to 158, 165, 175 to 178, 186, 201 to 212, 227 to 237 and 248 of its report1 and the recommendations of the Second Committee concerning the evaluation of linkages between headquarters and field activities: a review of best practices for poverty _______________ 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 16 and corrigendum (A/60/16 and Corr.1). 2 A/60/73. 3 A/C.5/60/11. 05-50302 Distr.: General 15 June 2006