EB31.R46 Co-operation with the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning of the Economic and Social Council
The Executive Board,
Considering resolutions WHA10.39, EB21.R15 and EB27.R22 concerning the participation of W H O in broad programmes of the United Nations and specialized agencies in the social and economic fields;
Having noted resolution 903 C (XXXIV) adopted by the Economic and Social Council in August 1962;
and
Having considered a report by the Director-General on the creation of the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning of the Economic and Social Council,
1. WELCOMES the steps taken by the Economic and Social Council to further the improvement of housing conditions in the world;
2. NOTES the terms of reference assigned to the newly-created Committee on Housing, Building and Planning;
3. REQUESTS the Director-General to co-operate fully with this committee;
4. EXPRESSES the opinion that the governing organs of W H O should be associated with the formulation of major decisions by the Economic and Social Council upon the recommendations of the Committee on Housing, Building and Planning involving activities within the competence of the World Health Organi- zation; and
5. REQUESTS the Director-General to pursue his efforts in order to ensure that the machinery and timing of procedures for inter-agency consultation and programme co-ordination in these fields are fully effective.
Handb. Res., 6th ed., 8.1.2 Eighteenth meeting, 26 January 1963