A/RES/60/257 technology strategy on measures and resources needed to strengthen the use of information technology as a management and monitoring tool; 12. Notes with concern that the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services 2 was not submitted to the General Assembly through the Committee for Programme and Coordination; 13. Welcomes the enhanced coordination between the Joint Inspection Unit and the Office of Internal Oversight Services as reflected in the report of the Office,2 and encourages such coordination in the future; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services with reporting to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session on ongoing efforts and measures taken to strengthen its in-depth and thematic evaluation function, as well as to respond to ad hoc evaluation requests by programme managers to ensure that intergovernmental bodies are provided with high-quality professional and objective reports on the performance of programmes and activities; 15. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the measures taken to strengthen self-evaluation by programme managers and to ensure more extensive and uniform use of selfevaluation at the programme and subprogramme levels, as well as to develop and implement common professional standards and methodologies for self-evaluation throughout the United Nations system, in consultation with the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination; Other conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination 16. Welcomes the high priority that the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination continues to attach to ensuring effective and coordinated United Nations system support for Africa’s development and the implementation of the priorities and programmes of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; 5 17. Requests the Secretary-General, with reference to the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination in paragraphs 227 to 237 of its report, 1 to submit the recommended report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session on further efforts made to ensure that support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development remains a priority of the United Nations system and that organizations represented on the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination increase their efforts in support of the New Partnership; 18. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to enhance and monitor the effective coordination of system-wide efforts against hunger and poverty; 19. Recalls its resolutions 58/269 and 59/275, as well as discussions held at the forty-fifth session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination, and, in this regard, notes with concern that no conclusions or recommendations were agreed to on improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee for Programme and Coordination during its forty-fifth session, and emphasizes the need for the Committee, within the framework of its mandate, to improve its working _______________ 5 A/57/304, annex. 3