Report on intra-secretariat policy meetings in the economic and social sector held at UN headquarters from 17-23 February 1995

Abstract

The discussion at this meeting of the Task Force produced set of recommendations aimed at facilitating the implementation of the six objectives of the Task Force work plan. The main highlights of the recommendations agreed at the meeting were that: UNDP and RECs will cooperate in the preparation of the UNDP sixth programming cycle and, in this connection, UNDP and RECs will jointly convene intergovernmental regional fora for consultation on regional programmes. The implication of this decision is that UNDP has agreed in principle to revive the active consultative process between RECs and UNDP that marked the fourth programming cycle as contrasted with the fifth cycle where these were scant consultations.