GEN

Urges further progress in harmonizing UN system support to national poverty eradication programmes through mechanisms such as the common country assessment and the UN Development Assistance Framework, fully consistent with and in support of national priorities as expressed in the country strategy notes or relevant national development plans, as appropriate, as well as full use of thematic groups and other coordination mechanisms within the Resident Coordinator system, in order to provide an integrated, coordinated and collaborative response by the UN system to national priorities for poverty eradication; stresses that the UN system should adopt flexible responses to specific capacity-building needs as articulated by the recipient countries in accordance with their national development plans and priorities.

Adopted without vote, 38th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 17-18 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).