GC approved work programme and budget 2018-2019

GC approved work programme and budget 2018-2019

The six-year strategic plan for the period 2014–2019 is being implemented through three successive biennial strategic frameworks, for 2014–2015, 2016–2017 and 2018–2019. The direction of the present strategic framework has been further guided by the outcome document of Habitat III, the New Urban Agenda.1 In the light of the New Urban Agenda and with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of UN-Habitat, in paragraph 172 of the New Urban Agenda Heads of State and Government, Ministers and high representatives gathered at Habitat III requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations to submit to the General Assembly during its seventy-first session an evidence-based and independent assessment of UN-Habitat. The General Assembly, in its resolution 71/235, on the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), encouraged the Secretary-General, pursuant to paragraphs 171 and 172 of the New Urban Agenda, to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the assessment of UN-Habitat was carried out in a fair, objective, impartial and representative manner, and decided that the report from the assessment should be presented in a timely manner. The outcome of the assessment requested in paragraph 172 of the New Urban Agenda should also guide the direction of the strategic framework.