The Department of Economic and Social Affairs was created as the result of the consolidation of the Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis and the Department for Development Support and Management Services.

The main objective of the Department's programme is to promote broad-based and sustainable development through a multidimensional and integrated approach to economic, social, environmental, population and gender related aspects of development.  The overall policy framework for the programme is based primarily on the programmes and platforms of action adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the Earth Summit + 5, the Global Conference on Small Island Developing Countries, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women.

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