UN in Focus: Secretary-General plans for progress on a broad front in 2011

This fact sheet profiles the eight main areas of strategic opportunity for the UN in 2011 and identifies key objectives for each of them: (i) inclusive and sustainable development, including disaster resilience for least developed countries and small island agriculture-oriented economies threatened by climate change and vulnerable to rising sea levels; (ii) negotiations and national actions on climate change, including coordination on measures for adapting to the effects of climate change and looking forward to COP-17 in South Africa in November-December 2011; (iii) women; (iv) a safer and more secure world in Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar; (v) human rights and accountability; (vi) improved response to major humanitarian crises, drawing lessons from Haiti and Pakistan and planning for future economic growth and sustainability, integrating disaster risk reduction and preparedness with civil authority; (vii) disarmament and non-proliferation; and (viii) strengthened United Nations.