Background
The new Coordination Segment of ECOSOC was created by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2021 as an essential part of a range of measures to strengthen ECOSOC (RESOLUTION). It will allow the Council to better deliver on its Charter role to coordinate the UN system and its subsidiary bodies in the economic, social, health, environmental and related areas. It will replace the Integration Segment and the informal meeting of the Council with the Chairs of subsidiary bodies.
With the new Coordination Segment, Member States will:- steer the Council system towards an efficient and integrated workflow;
- provide forward-looking policy guidance to ensure coherence and direction in the policies and normative work of subsidiary bodies and specialized agencies relating to the 2030 Agenda;
- formulate common action-oriented policy guidance on all matters requiring implementation or coordination efforts;
- provide guidance and coordination to subsidiary bodies, ensuring a clearer division of labour among them, aligning their work with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and promoting their implementation of the intergovernmentally negotiated ministerial declaration of the previous year;
- provide detailed guidance to the subsidiary bodies of the Council and the UN system on their upcoming work on the main theme and develop action-oriented assessment and recommendations so that those bodies best contribute to the preparations for the HLPF thematic review;
- review how subsidiary bodies and the UN system work on the interlinkages among the SDGs and the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda, guiding their work for the rest of the Council cycle.
ECOSOC System
ECOSOC oversees a complex ecosystem of bodies in the economic, social, cultural, educational, health and related fields. This includes the Council’s subsidiary bodies — regional commissions, functional commissions and expert bodies and related bodies — and United Nations funds and programmes and specialized agencies. The Council is entrusted to guide and coordinate the work of these bodies. It also coordinates the work of other UN entities within its mandate of providing integrated policy guidance to Member States on the coordinated follow-up of UN conferences in economic, social and related fields and in promoting the balanced integration of the three dimensions of sustainable development. It thus has an influence on a wide remit of the work of the UN on sustainable development.
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2023 Coordination Segment
The coordination segment, chaired by H.E. Mr. Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir (Indonesia), Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, took place on 1-2 February 2023 at the UN Headquarters. The Segment featured Chairs of ECOSOC functional commissions and expert bodies, Executive Secretaries of the regional commissions, and Heads of UN system entities, including specialized agencies.
During the Coordination Segment, the Council addressed the main theme of ECOSOC and the HLPF “ Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels ”. The Segment highlighted the immense wealth of knowledge and expertise of the ECOSOC subsidiary bodies and the UN system entities. The Coordination Segment provided ideas and guidance for the work of the ECOSOC system and the UN system leading up to ECOSOC high-level segment and the HLPF in July, in the lead up to the SDG Summit in September. An informal note by the Secretariat informed the discussions at the Coordination Segment.
A non-negotiated factual summary, prepared by the President of ECOSOC in consultation with the Bureau of the ECOSOC, reflects discussions during the Coordination Segment as well as the strategic proposals made during the Coordination Segment, along with the discussion of ECOSOC Partnership Forum held the previous day. The archived webcast of the Coordination Segment meetings are available for 1 February (morning and afternoon) and 2 February (morning and afternoon).
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