| [A] developing or strengthening
by 1996 national strategies and timetables to implement the Summit commitments,
and regularly assessing and reporting upon progress with implementation
[B] developing quantitative and qualitative
indicators to assess social development, and strengthening the systems
within the UN and interested countries for collecting and analysing statistics
[C] encouraging the development of non-governmental
organisations, and involving civil society in the development, implementation
and review of policies and programmes for social development
[D] considering the possibility of the
General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council convening meetings
of high-level representatives to discuss critical social issues and appropriate
international responses
[E] enlisting the support and cooperation
of the UN system and international financial institutions to achieve coordinated
and sustained progress with implementation, and establishing regular and
substantive dialogue between the UN, the World Bank and the IMF (including
consideration of joint meetings of the Economic and Social Council and
the Development Committee of the World Bank and the IMF)
[F] recognising the Economic and Social
Council as responsible for overseeing coordination within the UN system
of Summit implementation, and improving coordination at the national level
through UNDP field officers and the resident coordinator system |
[G] strengthening the authority,
structures and processes of the Economic and Social Council and other organisations
within the UN system that are concerned with economic and social development,
and bringing the specialized UN agencies into closer working relationships
with the Council
[H] considering through the Economic and
Social Council ways of strengthening the Commission on Social Development
and its synergy with related UN commissions
[I] inviting the World Trade Organisation
to consider how to contribute to Summit implementation, including through
cooperation with the UN system, and also requesting the International Labour
Organisation to contribute to implementation
[J] emphasising the important role of
the UN Committee that is responsible for monitoring the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
[K] considering introduction on a regional
basis of biennial high-level meetings of governments and international
institutions to review implementation of the commitments and take appropriate
measures, with review outcomes being reported by the UN regional commissions
to the Economic and Social Council
[L] obtaining a review of implementation
from the Economic and Social Council on the basis of reports from national
governments and organisations in the UN system, for consideration and action
by the UN General Assembly
[M] considering Summit implementation at
each meeting of the UN General Assembly, with a special attention in 1996
on implementation to eradicate poverty, and convening a special session
of the General Assembly in the year 2000 to conduct an overall review of
implementation to consider further action |
