Urges those Governments which have not already initiated action towards formulation of a national shelter strategy based on the enabling principles, or have taken only tentative steps so far, to increase their efforts, using the Guidelines for National Action contained in the Global Strategy, involving governmental, private sector and non-governmental actors in the shelter sector, assuring the participation of men and women and paying special attention to gender issues in the formulation implementation and monitoring of national shelter strategies in order to achieve the objective of facilitating shelter for all by the year 2000; recommends that all Governments adopt a cost-effective system for monitoring progress of national shelter strategies and also adopt, as far as is feasible, guidelines prepared by the Executive Director of the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat); urges Governments to integrate fully the environmental dimension in the formulation and implementation of national shelter strategies; invites Governments to make voluntary contributions to the UN Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation; adopts the Plan of Action for 1992-1993 for the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000.

Adopted without vote, 78th meeting

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Adopted at the 78th plenary meeting, 19 Dec. 1991.