Department of Economic and Social Affairs ECOSOC Support and Coordination

Director - Nikhil Seth

The Office provides substantive support to:

The Economic and Social Council including through:
- Supporting the Council's function of providing system-wide guidance , including in the area of integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits;
- Supporting the Council's oversight and coordination of its subsidiary bodies, with a view to achieving improved harmonization of their agendas and work programmes, and on the coordination of the implementation of declarations, strategies and programmes of action in the economic and social fields adopted by major United Nations conferences and summits;

The General Assembly (GA) , including on the follow-up to the Agenda for Development and Second/Third Committees;

The non-governmental organizations (NGO) in consultative status with the Council in the economic and social fields.

The Office also:

Provides substantive support to the intergovernmental process on restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields;

Prepares assessments of the performance and evaluates the impact of the United Nations system's operational activities, in accordance with the mandates established by the triennial comprehensive policy reviews of the GA;

Facilitates substantive links between the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the General Assembly and the United Nations system through the and the United Nations Development Group(UNDG);

Promotes interaction between the Council and the United Nations System Chief Executive Board for Coordination (CEB), as well as between the governing bodies of organizations of the system.

Latest Publications:

Achieving the Internationally Agreed Development Goals

United Nations