Operational activities for development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Requests the UNDP and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, making use of existing capacities within the Secretariat and, if necessary, voluntary contributions, to take the necessary steps to integrate by 2010 information from the report on UN system technical cooperation expenditures and its statistical addendum into the report on the comprehensive statistical analysis of the financing of operational activities for development of the UN system, to provide appropriate online access to this information and to report to the Economic and Social Council in 2009 on progress in this regard, and encourages the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNFPA to take the necessary decision to make this possible; and reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to take, in full consultation with Member States and observer States, measures: (a) To promote an adequate and expanding base of development assistance from the UN system, taking into account, inter alia, the development priorities of programme countries, (b) To promote an upward trend in real contributions to operational activities for development, to identify obstacles to the achievement of that goal, and to make appropriate recommendations in this regard, (c) To promote the predictability and the multi-year pledging of funding for operational activities for development, (d) To promote an appropriate balance between core and non-core contributions.

Adopted without vote, 72nd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.