A/RES/52/192 Page 3 10. Also decides that the Commission shall identify issues on which system-wide coordination needs to be improved and modalities for promoting such coordination, in order to assist the Council in its coordination function; III Structure of the agenda and work programme of the Commission 11. Urges the Commission to adopt a multi-year work programme for a focused and thematic approach that would, inter alia, provide a framework to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and that would be in line with the coordinated follow-up to conferences, culminating in an overall review and appraisal of the Habitat Agenda in the year 2001; 12. Decides that the work of the Commission, in relation to its programme of work, shall be primarily focused on the relevant provisions of the Habitat Agenda, with a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the Habitat Agenda; 13. Also decides that the agenda of the Commission on Human Settlements at its future sessions shall include the following substantive items derived from the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II): (a) Issues identified in the multi-year programme of work; (b) Relevant United Nations plans and programmes of action pertaining to the themes "Sustainable human settlements development" and "Adequate shelter for all"; (c) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting human settlements development; 14. Further decides that, at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions, the Commission will focus on monitoring the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and assessing its impact, structuring those sessions around the following four substantive areas of the Habitat Agenda: (a) Adequate shelter for all, also incorporating the monitoring of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000; (b) Sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world, also incorporating the monitoring of chapter 7 of Agenda 21; (c) Capacity-building and institutional development; (d) International cooperation and coordination; 15. Decides that: (a) At its seventeenth session, in 1999, the Commission will address the above-mentioned substantive areas; (b) At its eighteenth session, in 2001, the Commission will focus on preparations for the special session of the General Assembly, if appropriate; (c) In 1998 and 2000, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) will analyse the progress made on national implementation status, organized around the four above-mentioned substantive /...