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Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Resolution - GA Res. 49/97
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One United Nations (Ch 5, para 158)
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158. As at the national level, achieving an inclusive, purposeful mobilization of all resources and capacities should continue to drive change within the UN system. Fragmentation and the pursuit of narrow interests have typically—and in some cases justifiably—featured in descriptions of the UN system. In its response, however, to the Millennium Declaration and to the UN conferences and summits on economic and social issues since the 1990s, the UN system has proven its potential: to overcome the obstacles to policy coherence and cohesive action that are inherent in its structures; to integrate sectoral interventions effectively; and to mount more multidisciplinary and well sequenced responses. Further action on this front must take several forms, including:
A deliberate effort, in the pattern of the global conferences, to engage the active participation of all parts of the UN system in shaping policies. Participatory processes not only improve the quality and legitimacy of a given policy, but they also help to forge constituencies committed to the policy’s implementation. Among the UN organizations, they help to generate the very sense and substance of One United Nations.
A constant effort to engage parliaments and local authorities and all forces of civil society in policy development and implementation. While the implications will vary from organization to organization, the individual and collective actions taken in this area will have to stem from a system-wide commitment, evident to the system’s partners. The effort must be pursued coherently at the global, regional and country levels. And it must encompass not only the work methods of the secretariats, but also those of the intergovernmental bodies.
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