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1 ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meetings in 2014 Proposed allocation of agenda items to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meetings in the course of (as of 7/4/2014) April June July November Elections to subsidiary bodies Item 15: Non-governmental organizations Committee on NGOs at its January/February session Interaction with CEB Consideration of gender and women issues: (c) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system Secretary-General on gender mainstreaming and adoption of a resolution. Consideration of LDC issues: Item 9 (b): Review and coordination of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade (a) Sustainable development Secretary-General submitted under item 6 (b), and of the report of the Committee on Development Policy, Items related to the coordination functions of the Council: Item 9: Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits Item 11: Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B, 60/265 and 61/16 Joint consideration of both items Report of the Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (under item 6) 1 Agenda item numbers are those contained in the annotated provisional agenda for the 2014 session of the Council (E/2014/100).

2 environmental questions (j) Women and development Item 14: Social and human rights questions (a) Advancement of women Action on the report of the Commission on the Status of Women Consideration of health issues: (f) United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases DG of WHO on the work of the task force and adoption of a resolution Dialogue with the Secretary of the UN Chief Executive Board for Coordination (CEB) Financing for development: Item 9 (a): Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development Consideration of the summary by the President of the Council of the special high level meeting with the BWIs, WTO and UNCTAD submitted under item 13 (a) as it relates to LDC issues Adoption of a resolution on the implementation of the IPoA Consideration of regional cooperation and related issues: Item 13: Regional cooperation Consideration of the reports of the Executive Secretaries of the Functional Commissions and adoption of related resolutions Item 12: Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations Item 14: Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan Joint consideration of item 9 and 11; consideration of related reports of the Secretary-General and of the report of the President of the Council on consultations with the Chair of the C24 Dialogue with the UN Chief Executive Board for Coordination (CEB) Consideration of country specific issues on the agenda of the Council: (d) Long-term programme of support for Haiti Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti. Adoption of a resolution (e) Coordination, programme and other questions: African countries emerging from conflict Secretary-General on support to South Sudan. Oral briefing by the Chair of the Peace-building Commission. (a) Sustainable Development Consideration of reports on the 10 Year Framework Programme on 2

3 environmental questions (a) Sustainable development the Committee on Development Policy. Adoption of a resolution. the Secretary-General on mainstreaming sustainable development in the work of the UN system (c) Statistics Commission on Statistics (d) Human settlements the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (h) International cooperation on tax matters the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. Adoption of a resolution. Adoption of resolutions subsidiary bodies: programme and other questions (a) Reports of coordination bodies Committee on Programme and Coordination and of the annual overview report of CEB (b) Proposed strategic framework for the period Item 15: Non-governmental organizations Committee on NGOs at its May session (b) Science and technology for development Commission on Science and Technology for Development Secretary-General on progress made in the implementation of and follow- Sustainable Production and Consumption Patterns (10YFP) (e) Environment UN Environment Assembly (tbc) (i) Cartography 4 th session of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management 3

4 (k) Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions No advanced documentation Item 17: Social and human rights questions (b) Social development Commission on Social Development up to WSIS at the regional and international levels (f) Population and development Commission on Population and Development (g) Public administration and development Committee on Public Administration and Development (i) Cartography 28 th session of the UN Group of Experts on Geographical names Item 17: Social and human rights questions: (c) Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Oral report on the work of UNICRI (d) Narcotic Drugs Action on the Reports of the Commission on Drug Control and the International Narcotic Control Board 4

5 (e) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Oral report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Adoption of resolutions on membership to the Executive Committee of UNHCR (f) Comprehensive implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action No advanced documentation (g) Human Rights Consideration of the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Consideration of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for economic, social and cultural rights (h) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 5

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