Sixth Committee (Legal) — 72nd session
Programme planning (Agenda item 137)
Documentation
- General Assembly Resolutions:
A/RES/58/269 | A/RES/62/224 | A/RES/63/247 | A/RES/64/229 | A/RES/65/244 | A/RES/66/8 | A/RES/66/294 | A/RES/67/236 |
A/RES/69/17 | A/RES/70/8 | A/RES/71/6
Summary of work
Background (source: A/72/100/Add.1)
At its fifty-eighth session, in 2003, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, for submission to the Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, a strategic framework to replace the four-year medium-term plan (resolution 58/269).
At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of the Committee for Programme and Coordination that it maintain the strategic framework as the principal policy directive of the United Nations, which serves as the basis for programme planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, with effect from the biennium 2010-2011 (resolution 62/224).
At its seventy-first session, the General Assembly considered the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its fifty-sixth session, endorsed the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed strategic framework for the period 2018-2019, as contained in chapter II, section B (ii), of the report and decided not to take a decision on the content of part one: plan outline of the proposed strategic framework for the period 2018-2019. The Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019 on the basis of the priorities and the strategic framework as adopted in the resolution (resolution 71/6).
Consideration at the seventy-second session
At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 15 September 2017, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee, decided to include the item entitled “Programme planning” in its agenda and to allocate it to the Sixth Committee as well as to all the other Main Committees and the plenary of the Assembly to enhance discussion of evaluation, planning, budgeting and monitoring reports.
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 30th meeting, on 10 November 2017 (see A/C.6/72/SR.30). The Committee was informed that no reports were allocated to it under the agenda item.
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At the 30th meeting, the Sixth Committee concluded its consideration of the item without taking action.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee: A/72/487
- GA decision: 72/529 [for the text of the decision, see the Sixth Committee's report to the General Assembly]
This agenda item will be considered at the seventy-third session (2018).
