A/RES/74/251
Programme planning
programme plan for programmes and subprogrammes and programme performance
information, 4
Having also considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
on strengthening the role of evaluation and the application of evaluation findings on
programme design, delivery and policy directives, 5
1.
Reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination as
the main subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social
Council for planning, programming and coordination;
2.
Also reaffirms the role of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
in verifying that the programmes of activities of the Organization are implem ented in
line with the legislative mandates and that the full implementation of regulations and
rules is ensured;
3.
Re-emphasizes the role of the plenary and the Main Committees of the
General Assembly in reviewing and taking action on the appropriate recommendations
of the Committee for Programme and Coordination relevant to their work, in
accordance with regulation 4.10 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme
Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation
and the Methods of Evaluation; 1
4.
Stresses that setting the priorities of the United Nations is the prerogative
of the Member States, as reflected in legislative mandates;
5.
Reiterates the need for Member States to participate fully in the budget
preparation process, from its early stages and throughout the process;
6.
Recalls its resolution 72/266 A, in which it approved the change from a
biennial to an annual budget period on a trial basis, beginning with the programme
budget for 2020;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General to present a report as early as practicable,
for the consideration of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session, on the
impact of the changes to the budgetary cycle on the established budgetary procedures
and practices as they pertain to the agreed sequential nature of the review processes
of the proposed programme budget, and in this regard to present possible options to
ensure the preservation of this sequence, including the possibility of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions preparing its conclusions and
recommendations on the basis of a programme plan approved by the General
Assembly in 2021;
8.
Recalls paragraph 13 of its resolution 72/266 A, and reaffirms that no
changes to the budget methodology, established budgetary procedures and practices
or the financial regulations may be implemented without prior review and approval
by the General Assembly in accordance with established budgetary proced ures;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to clearly identify those provisions and
rules that are proposed to be formally suspended or no longer applied during the trial
period;
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A/74/6 (Sect. 2), A/74/6 (Sect. 3), A/74/6 (Sect. 4), A/74/6 (Sect. 5), A/74/6 (Sect. 5)/Corr.1,
A/74/6 (Sect. 6), A/74/6 (Sect. 8), A/74/6 (Sect. 8)/Corr.1, A/74/6 (Sect. 9), A/74/6 (Sect. 10),
A/74/6 (Sect. 11), A/74/6 (Sect. 12), A/74/6 (Sect. 13), A/74/6 (Sect. 14), A/74/6 (Sect. 15),
A/74/6 (Sect. 16), A/74/6 (Sect. 17), A/74/6 (Sect. 18), A/74/6 (Sect. 19), A/74/6 (Sect. 20),
A/74/6 (Sect. 21), A/74/6 (Sect. 22), A/74/6 (Sect. 24), A/74/6 (Sect. 25), A/74/6 (Sect. 26),
A/74/6 (Sect. 27), A/74/6 (Sect. 28), A/74/6 (Sect. 29), A/74/6 (Sect. 30), A/74/6 (Sect. 31) and
A/74/6 (Sect. 34).
A/74/67 and A/74/67/Corr.1.
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