About the Committee for Programme & Coordination
The Committee for Programme and Coordination is the main subsidiary organ of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for planning, programming and coordination.
In its resolution 58/269, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to prepare, on a trial basis, a strategic framework to replace the current four-year medium-term plan. In its resolution 62/224, the General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of the Committee at its forty-seventh session to 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
From: 2008 (LX). Terms of reference of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination
The Committee reviews the programmes of the United Nations as defined in the strategic framework. Specifically it reviews:
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The strategic framework in the off-budget years
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The programme budget in budget years
In reviewing the strategic framework the Committee examines the totality of the Secretary-General's work programme giving particular attention to programme changes arising out of decisions adopted by intergovernmental organs and conferences or suggested by the Secretary-General.
The Committee also:
- assesses the results achieved from current activities,
- assesses the continuing validity of legislative decisions of more than five years' standing,
- assesses the effectiveness of co-ordination with other units of the Secretariat and members of the United Nations family
- recommends an order of priorities among United Nations programmes as defined in the strategic framework
- gives guidance to the Secretariat on programme design by interpreting legislative intent so as to assist it in translating legislation into programmes.
- makes recommendations with respect to work programmes proposed by the Secretariat to give effect to the legislative intent of the relevant policy-making organs, taking into account the need to avoid overlapping and duplication.
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
The Committee for Programme and Coordination assists the Economic and Social Council in the performance of its coordination functions within the United Nations system by:
- considering on a sector-by-sector basis the activities and programmes of the agencies of the United Nations system in order to enable the Council effectively to perform its functions as co-ordinator of the system and ensure that the work programmes of the United Nations and its agencies shall be compatible and mutually complementary;
- recommending guidelines for the agencies of the United Nations system on their programmes and activities, taking into account their respective functions and responsibilities and the need for coherence and coordination throughout the system:
- undertaking, upon the recommendation of the General Assembly or the Economic and Social Council, a review and appraisal of the implementation of important legislative decisions, so as to determine the degree of co-ordinated effort undertaken throughout the United Nations system in certain priority fields designated as such by legislative bodies.
The Committee also studies the reports of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, formerly known as Administrative Committee on Coordination.