The Département of the economic and social matters ( DAES ) is a department of the Secrétariat of the United Nations. The Assistant general secretary with the political matters is Jose Antonio Ocampo, a Colombian diplomat . The role of the DAES is of produret and to analyze data on economic questions, social and environmental to examine problems and to evaluate the options; in the intergouvermentaux bodies, to facilitate the negotiations; and adviser governments.

The Department is composed of several offices and divisions:

• Office of the Assistant general secretary
• Division of the policies and the analysis of the development
• Office of the financing of the development
• Office of the support at the Economic and Social Council and the coordination
• Office of the special Adviser for the parity of the sexes and the promotion of the woman
• Division of the promotion of the woman
• Division of the Sustainable development
• Forum of the United Nations on the Forests
• Division of the industrial relations policies and social development
• Division of the Public administration and the management of the Statistical development
• Division of
• Division of the Population