E/2003/27 E/CN.6/2003/12 (c) Establishing or strengthening institutional mechanisms, such as gender units/focal points, networks and task forces, to provide catalytic support and strengthen capacity in sectoral areas; (d) Strengthening staff skills and capacity to integrate gender perspectives into policies and programmes; (e) Establishing appropriate monitoring, evaluation or other progressreporting mechanisms to assess the impact of gender equality policies and strategies; (f) Implementing programmes and other activities aimed at increasing awareness of gender issues at national and international levels; (g) Increasing inter-agency activities within the United Nations system, inter alia, at regional and global levels as a vehicle for coordination, information-sharing and joint activities; 3. Calls upon those entities of the United Nations system that have not already done so to consider implementing these and other innovative measures in pursuit of gender mainstreaming goals; 4. Invites all entities of the United Nations system, in pursuit of governmental and intergovernmental commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming goals, to identify remaining gaps in policy frameworks and strategies and assess the impact of such frameworks and strategies, so that future programmes, capacity-building and institutional measures can be better designed and better targeted to achieve the desired outcomes; 5. Requests the Secretary-General, towards this end, to include in his report to the Commission at its forty-eighth session on the measures taken and progress achieved in the follow-up to and implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, especially in mainstreaming gender perspectives in entities of the United Nations system: (a) An assessment of the remaining gaps in frameworks for gender equality policies and strategies and the mainstreaming of gender perspectives into all policies and programmes of the entities of the United Nations, as well as proposals for addressing such gaps; (b) An assessment of the role and effectiveness of existing institutional mechanisms with a view to effecting their increased use in delivering the desired outcomes on gender equality; (c) An overview of monitoring mechanisms for gender mainstreaming that are currently in place in the entities of the United Nations system; (d) An assessment of the impact of policies and strategies designed to enhance attention to gender perspectives in all policies and programmes of the United Nations system; (e) An assessment of the most pertinent gaps in sex-disaggregated data and gender-specific information across all policy and programme areas; 6. Requests the Economic and Social Council to consider deciding to devote its coordination segment in 2004 to a review and appraisal of the system-wide 15