8. Invites the United Nations bodies that meet under the auspices of the Administrative Committee on Coordination to regularly discuss progress made in implementing activities under each area of critical concern, taking into account the long-term programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council, and to provide up-to-date information in those areas to the Council through the Commission, taking into consideration the comments made on the plan by the Commission and other relevant bodies; 9. Recommends that the Council, through the Commission, follow up the implementation of the plan and undertake a comprehensive mid-term review of the implementation of the plan as a basis for future programming and coordination of activities for the advancement and empowerment of women by the United Nations system, including a review of the progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective in all activities of the United Nations system; 10. Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the Council for its consideration of the revised draft plan the comments of the Committee for Programme and Coordination and the Administrative Committee on Coordination, along with the comments of the Commission; 11. Recommends that the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the proposed inter-agency committee on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women use the plan and comments on it as a basis for monitoring increasing collaboration and cost-effective approaches to United Nations system activities for the advancement and empowerment of women, including the assessment of methods for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all United Nations activities, ensuring accountability and carrying out impact analyses of gender-sensitive programmes and policies; 12. Recommends that the Council request the Secretary-General to submit to it, through the Commission at its forty-second session, a progress report on the implementation of the plan; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the mainstreaming of a system-wide gender perspective in all United Nations activities, including in decision-making as part of the accountability of senior managers; 14. Urges the Secretary-General to implement the decision taken by the General Assembly at its fiftieth session to strengthen the capacity of the Division for the Advancement of Women, and emphasizes the need to provide the necessary resources in the current revision of the programme budget for the biennium for the comprehensive follow-up of the Platform for Action; the reformulation of policies and reallocation of resources may be needed within and among programmes, without prejudice to development programmes, but some policy changes may not necessarily have financial implications; mobilization of additional resources, both public and private, including resources from innovative sources of funding, may also be necessary; 15. Requests the Secretary-General, in the implementation of the Platform for Action, to integrate a gender perspective in budgetary decisions on policies and programmes and to assure adequate financing of specific programmes for securing equality between women and men; 16. Recommends that the Council request the formulation of a new systemwide medium-term plan for the advancement of women to cover the period 2002-2005, and that the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, submit the new draft plan to the -39-