Report of the Economic and Social Council
Background
Public administration and development
The General Assembly has mandated the Secretariat to undertake activities to assist Member States to build their administrative capacities since 4 December 1948 (resolution 246 (III)).
At its resumed fiftieth session, in April 1996, the General Assembly brought to the fore the importance of public administration in development and acknowledged that the role of United Nations activities and programmes in public administration and development was to assist Governments, at their request, to improve their responsiveness to meet the basic needs of all, as well as to achieve sustainable development in all countries (resolution 50/225).
The General Assembly reviewed developments in the field of public administration at its forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-third, and from its fifty-sixth to fifty-ninth sessions (resolutions 49/136, 50/225, 53/201, 56/213, 57/277, 58/231 and 59/55).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to continue to facilitate, through the United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, the dissemination of valuable practices in public administration; and also requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly on the implementation of the resolution and the result of the seventh Global Forum on Reinventing Government, to be held in 2007 (resolution 60/34).
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References for the sixty-first session (agenda item 41)
- Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2005: Supplement No. 3 (A/60/3/Rev.1)
- Report of the Secretary-General on public administration and development (A/60/114)
- Draft resolution A/60/L.24 and Add.1
- Plenary meetings A/60/PV.37 and A/60/PV.58
- Resolution 60/34
United Nations Population Award 2007
At its thirty-sixth session, in 1981, the General Assembly decided to establish an annual United Nations Population Award for the most outstanding contribution to the awareness of population questions or to their solutions by an individual or individuals or by an institution (resolution 36/201).
At its first session of 1982, the Economic and Social Council approved the rules of procedure of the Committee, rule 8 of which calls for the proceedings of the Committee to be reflected in a report attached to the annual report to be submitted to the General Assembly by the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (Council decision 1982/112 [page 37]).
At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly took note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund on the 2006 United Nations Population Award (resolution 61/268).
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- Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund on the 2007 United Nations Population Award (General Assembly resolution 36/201 and Council decision 1982/112 [page 37]). A/62/277.
