General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

19 December 1991

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                                                   A/RES/46/163
                                                   78th plenary meeting
                                                   19 December 1991
 
            Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000
 
  The General Assembly,
 
  Recalling its resolution 43/181 of 20 December 1988, in which it designated
the Commission on Human Settlements as the intergovernmental body for
coordinating, evaluating and monitoring the Global Strategy for Shelter to the
Year 2000,
 
  Recalling also its resolution 44/173 of 19 December 1989, in which it
considered the first report of the Commission on Human Settlements on the
implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, submitted
pursuant to paragraph 7 of resolution 43/181,
 
  Recognizing that the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 provides a
framework for Governments to facilitate adequate shelter for all and that,
through shelter and services, the Global Strategy also addresses the issues of
alleviation of poverty, improvement of health, participation of women,
improvement of the living environment of people and promotion of sustainable
development,
 
  Emphasizing that the operational focus for promoting the objective of
facilitating shelter for all is action at the national level within the
framework of national shelter strategies which are integrated with
macroeconomic policies for optimum utilization of natural and human resources
and are based on standards that are nationally appropriate and socially
acceptable,
 
  Emphasizing also that the adoption of enabling shelter strategies can
mobilize resources on a sustainable basis and facilitate access to available
resources by all population groups,
 
  Noting that such mobilization of national resources through enabling shelter
strategies could partially alleviate economic constraints that affect many
countries,
 
  Having considered the second report of the Commission on Human Settlements
on the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000,
 
  Noting with satisfaction that a number of Governments have initiated or
reformulated national shelter strategies, based on the principle of enabling
all actors in the shelter sector, and that many other Governments have
initiated action on particular components of a national shelter strategy,
 
  Noting also with satisfaction the support given to the implementation of the
Global Strategy by donor Governments, international bodies and
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations,
 
  Cognizant of the importance of maintaining the momentum already generated at
the national and international levels for the implementation of the Global
Strategy,
 
  1.  Commends Governments which are revising, consolidating, formulating or
implementing their national shelter strategies based on the enabling
principles of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000;
 
  2.  Urges those Governments which have not already initiated action towards
formulation of a national shelter strategy based on the enabling principles,
or have taken only tentative steps so far, to increase their efforts, using
the Guidelines for National Action contained in the Global Strategy, involving
governmental, private sector and non-governmental actors in the shelter
sector, assuring the participation of men and women and paying special
attention to gender issues, in the formulation, implementation and monitoring
of national shelter strategies in order to achieve the objective of
facilitating shelter for all by the year 2000;
 
  3.  Recommends that all Governments adopt a cost-effective system for
monitoring progress of national shelter strategies and also adopt, as far as
is feasible, guidelines prepared by the Executive Director of the United
Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);
 
  4.  Also urges Governments to integrate fully the environmental dimension in
the formulation and implementation of national shelter strategies, following,
for example, the synopsis of environmental checkpoints contained in the report
of the Executive Director on the significance of human settlements and the
Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 to the concept to sustainable
development;
 
  5.  Invites Governments to make voluntary contributions to the United
Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation in order to facilitate
implementation of the Global Strategy;
 
  6.  Urges the organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the
United Nations Development Programme, and other multilateral and bilateral
agencies to provide increased financial and other support to Governments for
the implementation of the Plan of Action of the Global Strategy;
 
  7.  Adopts the Plan of Action for 1992-1993 for the implementation of the
Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, and urges all Governments,
appropriate United Nations organizations, and intergovernmental and non-
governmental organizations to prepare and implement their specific plans of
action.