Encourages Member States making non-core contributions to reduce transaction costs , assign resources , as much as possible , at the beginning of the annual planning period , while encouraging multi-year duration of implementation of development-related activities , streamline and harmonize requirements related to reporting , monitoring and evaluation and give priority to pooled , thematic and joint funding mechanisms applied at the global , regional and country levels ; 45 . Acknowledges the ongoing work by the United Nations Development Programme , the United Nations Population Fund , the United Nations Children 's Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ( UN-Women ) towards agency-specific integrated budgets , including harmonization of cost classification , and looks forward to the completion of this work to allow a better alignment of programming and resources in the next generation of strategic plans ; 46 .