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Contents
Acronyms
Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Provisional summary record of the 60th meeting - E/1995/SR.60
ITAG Updates
CEB/2002/HLCM/10
CEB/2005/HLCM/26
Other accounting and financial reporting questions
Audit and inspection
Session Reports
Executive Summary
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1. With this report, the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) aims to contribute to the preparations for the 2005 World Summit, to take place this September in the General Assembly, five years after the adoption of the historic Millennium Declaration. The report provides an account of how UN organizations are working together to assist countries in achieving the Declaration’s objectives. This common effort is serving to broaden the perspectives of all parts of the UN system and helping them, both individually and collectively, to deepen analysis, expand knowledge-sharing, reinforce synergies and sharpen the focus on results. In short, the Millennium Declaration has demanded and facilitated the evolution of a more coordinated, cohesive and functional UN system.
2. The report concentrates on both accountability and action: on accountability for the UN system’s performance so far in helping countries to implement the Millennium Declaration and, generally, in improving its effective delivery of services; and on adjusting and accelerating action, as necessary, to help countries meet the Millennium Declaration’s objectives.
3. Since the Declaration’s adoption, new orientations and approaches have guided the collective work of the UN system in the key areas of poverty eradication and sustainable development; human rights, democracy and governance; and the prevention and management of armed conflicts. These are illustrated in the body of the report. Yet, the UN system still faces the challenge of fully transforming its diversity and complexity into a source of strength: one that enables its constituent organizations, acting alone or in concert, to respond flexibly and from different perspectives to the evolving international environment and to the changing requirements of Member States. Much more action is needed for the UN system to evolve into “One United Nations”—the cohesive force for progress and change that current conditions require and that Member States have demanded, in putting forward the Millennium Declaration.
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