United Nations Commission for Social Development

United Nations Commission for Social Development

Abbreviation	CSocD
Formation	16 February 1946; 78 years ago (1946-02-16)
Type	Intergovernmental organization, Regulatory body, Advisory board
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	New York, USA
Head	Chair of the UN Commission for Social Development Nikulás Hannigan
Parent organization	United Nations Economic and Social Council
Website	CSocD at un.org
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The Commission for Social Development (CSocD) is one of the eight functional commissions established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1946 to advise and assist it in carrying its work.^[1]

The Commission for Social Development [1] consists of 46 members elected by ECOSOC.

Since the convening of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, the commission has been the key UN body in charge of the follow-up and implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action. As a result of the Summit, the mandate of the commission was reviewed and its membership expanded from 32 to 46 members in 1996. It meets once a year at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, usually in February for about two weeks. In 2020, the Commission celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the 75th anniversary of the commission.^[2]

Each year since 1995, the commission has taken up key social development themes as part of its follow-up to the outcome of the Copenhagen Summit. In 1996, the priority theme was “strategies and actions for the eradication of poverty”^[3] and, more recently, in 2020 the priority theme was "affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness".^[4]