A/RES/74/251
Programme planning
implementation of all activities in the programme plan as approved by the General
Assembly;
(g) Providing, in the context of performance measures, at least three prior
years of actual performance information to facilitate a better understanding and
assessment of progress made at the programme and subprogramme levels;
(h)
Including a strategy at both the programme and subprogramme levels;
(i) Incorporating the list of legislative mandates into the published official
document and not into the supplementary document provided informally;
(j) Replacing the proposed section on alignment with the Sustainable
Development Goals with concrete information regarding contributions to the
implementation of the Goals by relevant programmes and subprogrammes in
accordance with their specific related intergovernmental mandates;
(k) Using simplified and identifiable numbering to improve the readability
and referencing of the proposed programme plan;
(l) Reducing the use of accompanying photographs in the foreword to each
proposed programme plan;
(m) Ensuring that the use of anecdotal narratives in subprogrammes is only to
provide examples of actual and planned results as referenced in (e) above;
(n) Ensuring that the terms and expressions referenced in the proposed
programme plan have been intergovernmentally agreed;
16. Approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, for
programmes 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 22, 27 and 28 of the proposed programme
budget for 2020, the programme narrative that is composed solely of the “Mandates
and background”, “Recent developments”, “Strategy and external factors for 2020”
and “Evaluation activities” sections at the programme level and by objective at the
subprogramme level;
17. Also approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent,
for programmes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the proposed
programme budget for 2020, a programme narrative that is composed solely of the
list of mandates at the programme level and the objectives approved by the General
Assembly in its resolution 71/6 and the deliverables for 2020 at the subprogramme
level;
18. Further approves the programme plan for programme 6, Legal affairs, of
the proposed programme budget for 2020, as contained in the report of the Secretary General; 7
19. Approves, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent, in the
case of the programmes mentioned in paragraph 17 above, where new mandates imply
changes to the objectives at the subprogramme level as approved in their agreed
formulation under its resolution 71/6, the relevant objectives as updated in the
proposed programme budget for 2020;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the programme plan covers
all activities, both substantive and servicing, including those to be financed partially
or fully from extrabudgetary and other assessed resources;
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