United Nations A/67/77 General Assembly Distr.: General 29 March 2012 Original: English Sixty-seventh session Item 131 of the preliminary list* Programme planning Programme performance report of the United Nations for the biennium 2010-2011 Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report on the programme performance of the United Nations Secretariat for the biennium 2010-2011 is submitted in accordance with regulation 6.1 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation. The report includes information both on the results achieved by the Organization during the biennium in terms of expected accomplishments and also on the production of outputs, which is the traditional measure of performance. The report includes a detailed recounting of the results obtained by each individual budget section on a total of 856 expected accomplishments implemented under the 36 sections of the programme budget. In addition, the report highlights the main results achieved by the Organization under its 10 programme elements (see sect. II) in order to give Member States the opportunity to assess the Secretariat’s performance at an aggregate level. The analysis of programme performance in regard to the outputs, as detailed in section III, indicates that the implementation rate of mandated outputs in the 2010-2011 biennium was 90 per cent, one percentage point higher than in the previous biennium when it reached 89 per cent. This refers to the more than 32,300 outputs implemented by the United Nations during the biennium. The highlights of performance of the different budget sections, at programme and subprogramme levels, are presented in section IV, which also includes information on some of the challenges and obstacles met by the Departments of the Secretariat in meeting their goals. The report, combining a results-based analysis with an output- oriented one, provides a complete overview of the major developments and the work performed by the United Nations Secretariat during the biennium 2010-2011. * A/67/50. 12-27978 (E) 290512 *1227978* A/67/77 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................... 5 II. Overview of key results of the United Nations ....................................... 6 A. Overall policymaking, direction and coordination ................................ 6 B. Political affairs ............................................................ 6 C. International justice and law ................................................. 8 D. International cooperation for development ...................................... 8 E. Regional cooperation for development ......................................... 13 F. Human rights and humanitarian affairs ......................................... 17 G. Public information ......................................................... 19 H. Common support services ................................................... 20 I. Internal oversight .......................................................... 23 J. Safety and security ......................................................... 24 III. Delivery of outputs and resource utilization ......................................... 24 A. Implementation rates........................................................ 25 B. Additional outputs.......................................................... 28 C. Postponed outputs .......................................................... 30 D. Terminated outputs ......................................................... 32 E. Outputs carried over ........................................................ 34 F. Technical cooperation delivery ............................................... 35 G. Resource utilization ........................................................ 36 H. Gender mainstreaming ...................................................... 39 I. Final statement on the delivery of outputs and resource utilization .................. 41 IV. Programme performance by section of the programme budget .......................... 41 2. General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management............................................................... 41 3. Political affairs ............................................................ 53 4. Disarmament .............................................................. 60 5. Peacekeeping operations..................................................... 67 6. Peaceful uses of outer space.................................................. 73 8. Legal affairs............................................................... 76 9. Economic and social affairs .................................................. 83 2 12-27978 A/67/77 10. Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States .................................................................... 96 11. United Nations support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development ........... 101 12. Trade and development...................................................... 104 13. International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO ..................................... 116 14. Environment .............................................................. 119 15. Human settlements ......................................................... 131 16. International drug control, crime and terrorism prevention and criminal justice........ 139 17. Economic and social development in Africa..................................... 145 18. Economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific ......................... 161 19. Economic development in Europe ............................................. 177 20. Economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean .............. 188 21. Economic and social development in Western Asia ............................... 202 22. Regular programme of technical cooperation .................................... 213 23. Human rights .............................................................. 248 24. International protection, durable solutions and assistance to refugees ................ 260 25. Palestine refugees .......................................................... 263 26. Humanitarian assistance ..................................................... 267 27. Public information ......................................................... 274 28A. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Management ......................... 278 28B. Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts ........................... 281 28C. Office of Human Resources Management ..................................... 285 28D. Office of Central Support Services .......................................... 290 28E. Administration, Geneva ................................................... 294 28F. Administration, Vienna .................................................... 299 28G. Administration, Nairobi ................................................... 302 29. Office of Information and Communications Technology........................... 308 30. Internal oversight .......................................................... 311 34. Safety and security ......................................................... 315 37. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) .............................................................. 320 12-27978 3 A/67/77 Acronyms AMISOM African Union Mission in Somalia BINUB United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi BINUCA United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic MINURCAT United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad MINURSO United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara MINUSTAH United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti MONUC United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo UNAMI United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq UNAMID African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur UNDOF United Nations Disengagement Observer Force UNFICYP United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIOGBIS United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau UNISFA United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei UNMIL United Nations Mission in Liberia UNMIS United Nations Mission in the Sudan UNMISS United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMIT United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan UNOAU United Nations Office to the African Union UNOCA United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa UNOCI United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire UNSMIL United Nations Support Mission in Libya UNSOA United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia 4 12-27978 A/67/77 I. Introduction 1. The present report on the programme performance of the United Nations Secretariat for the biennium 2010-2011 constitutes an important accountability and management tool in the Organization’s results-based-budgeting approach. Since this budgeting methodology follows a recurrent cycle that includes planning, budgeting, programme implementation, monitoring and reporting, it closes the cycle, summarizing the major achievements of the United Nations during the biennium and the outputs delivered in the implementation of its programme of work. 2. The report is submitted in accordance with regulation 6.1 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning,