UNITED NATIONS	HS
	Commission on Human Settlements	Distr. LIMITED HS/C/17/L.19 12 May 1999 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

The Commission on Human Settlements,

Considering the services rendered by the Ombudsman Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme since its inception in 1993, in the fields of mediation, inquiry, counselling, the provision of information, briefing and management review, thereby meeting essential demands from the personnel of the United Nations Environment Programme,

Taking into account resolution 20/41 of 4 February 1999, of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, on the functioning of the Ombudsman Unit, which stresses that other United Nations entities in Nairobi and their personnel would greatly benefit from the full range of services provided by the Ombudsman Unit, inviting the Executive Director to extend the services of the Ombudsman Unit to other United Nations entities upon request,

Attentive to the proximity of and existing links between the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and the United Nations Environment Programme and their personnel,

Aware of the reinforcement of the Ombudsman Unit since the twentieth session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme,

1. Invites the Executive Director to explore and, if possible, enter into an inter-agency agreement for the United Nations Environment Programme to extend the services of its Ombudsman Unit to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) on a no-cost basis until the eighteenth session of the Commission on Human Settlements;

2. Requests the Executive Director to submit to the Commission at its eighteenth session all relevant information and reports with regard to the operations of the Ombudsman Unit related to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);

3. Decides to review, at its eighteenth session, the Ombudsman services related to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and the financial implications of the continuation of those services to the Centre.