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Summary Of: ECOSOC
ECOSOC has 54 members... ECOSOC meets once a year in July for a four... ECOSOC is well positioned to provide policy coherence and coordinate the overlapping functions of the UN... to expand ECOSOC from 18 to 27 members in 1965... ECOSOC has served primarily as a discussion vehicle for economic and social issues... ECOSOC had little authority to force action and a number of member states were concerned that... and other nations began an effort to make ECOSOC more relevant by strengthening its policy responsibilities in economic... The resulting reform made ECOSOC the oversight and policy... The reform also gave ECOSOC a strong hand in ensuring that UN agencies coordinated their work on issues of common... Another example was the ECOSOC decision in 1994 to authorize the creation of a new joint and cosponsored UN program... to place items on the agendas of ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies... the ECOSOC will assess progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals... Encyclodia Page On: ECOSOC
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