A/RES/57/318 Recognizing also the need for adequate support during all phases of peacekeeping operations, including the liquidation and termination phases, Mindful that the level of the support account should broadly correspond to the mandates, number, size and complexity of peacekeeping missions, 1. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the support account for peacekeeping operations;9 2. Also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the experience with resident investigators;5 3. Further takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on gender mainstreaming in peacekeeping activities;6 4. Reaffirms the need for effective and efficient administration and financial management of peacekeeping operations, and urges the Secretary-General to continue to identify measures to increase the productivity and efficiency of the support account; 5. Affirms the need for adequate funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, as well as the need for full justification for that funding in support account budget submissions; 6. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the relevant paragraphs of the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,10 subject to the provisions of the present resolution; 7. Decides to maintain, for the period from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004, the funding mechanism for the support account used in the current period, from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, as approved in paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B of 7 June 1996; 8. Reaffirms the need for the Secretary-General to ensure that delegation of authority to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat and field missions is in strict compliance with relevant resolutions and decisions and the relevant rules and procedures of the General Assembly on this matter; 9. Also reaffirms that any delegation of authority to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and field missions requires full accountability of programme managers; 10. Further reaffirms paragraph 15 of its resolution 56/293, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its resumed fifty-eighth session a comprehensive report on measures taken in this regard and the criteria used for recruitment to all support account posts, in particular those in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, bearing in mind that the system of desirable ranges does not currently apply to support account posts; 11. Regrets that the D-2 post for the administration of change management is still vacant, and urges the Secretary-General to fill it as soon as possible; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to review the level of the support account on a regular basis, taking into consideration the number, size and complexity of peacekeeping operations; _______________ 9 A/57/725 and A/57/732. A/57/772, paras. 86–95, and A/57/776, paras. 30 and 31. 10 2