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Acronyms
Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Resolution - GA Res. 49/97
CEB/2005/HLCM/26
Other accounting and financial reporting questions
Audit and inspection
Session Reports
Increasing transparency and accountability
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11. As it promotes transparency and accountability as principles of good governance at the national and local levels, so must the UN system internalize and apply these principles as the core of what “One United Nations” should embody and convey at the global level. This means a common, system-wide position of zero tolerance for abuses, of openness to scrutiny, and of proactively implementing the most effective and reliable systems for monitoring, evaluation, audit and oversight, including system-wide action to evaluate UN performance in terms not merely of effort, but mainly of real impact in targeted areas.
12. At the 2005 World Summit, Governments should reaffirm their consensus that these are directions in which they wish the UN system to proceed, and they should act deliberately to advance that movement in the system’s different governing bodies. The intergovernmental consensus must entail a strong, renewed commitment to substantive progress on and among each of the Declaration’s three pillars, in order to strengthen the entire multilateral framework for collective action.
13. The Summit will have before it the Secretary-General’s report, In Larger freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All (A/59/2005), in which he presents proposals for strengthening efforts to secure for all peoples freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity, and for enhancing UN effectiveness in these core areas. The UN system’s future work in these areas will be guided by the consensus reached at the Summit, by the directives of the governing bodies of its constituent members and by the ongoing evolution of the international policy and legal frameworks.
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