E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 “Recommends that the Economic and Social Council adopt the following decision: “The Economic and Social Council, “Having considered resolution 45/___ of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Decides to: “(a) Establish, in the context of its general segment, a regular item on its agenda on mainstreaming a gender perspective in the United Nations system to, inter alia, monitor and evaluate achievements made and obstacles encountered by the United Nations system, including the Secretariat, and consider further measures to strengthen implementation and monitoring of gender mainstreaming in the United Nations system, including the development of guidelines and practical tools, such as, inter alia, performance indicators, mechanisms for accountability, gender training programmes and impact analyses, as well as the identification and compilation of best practices, and the use of Internet-based tools; “(b) Devote a future coordination segment, by 2005, to th e review and appraisal of the system-wide implementation of agreed conclusions 1997/2 on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system and to identify further strategies to accelerate their implementation, and as part of this review and appraisal, and to request functional commissions to report on the progress made in implementing the agreed conclusions 1997/2 in their work; “(c) Ensure that a gender perspective is mainstreamed into all its work and, in order to enhance its ability to do so, requests the Secretary-General and bodies reporting to the Economic and Social Council to address the gender aspects of issues before the Council in their reports; “(d) Further intensify its efforts to ensure that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of all its activities concerning integrated and coordinated follow-up to United Nations conferences, building upon agreed conclusions 1997/2 of the Council; “8. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.” 51. At the 16th meeting, on 17 March, the observer for Canada, on behalf of the sponsors, introduced revisions to the draft resolution, which were circulated in an informal paper. 52. At the same meeting, the Commission was advised that the draft resolution, as orally revised, contained no programme budget implications. 53. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. B, resolution 45/2). 54. Before the draft resolution was adopted, the representative of the United States of America made a statement. 45