E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 “8. Urges States to elaborate and implement comprehensive gendersensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity; “9. Also encourages Member States, in particular those with persistent high maternal mortality and morbidity, to maximize the efficient use of existing resources for maternal health and also to meet commitments such as those included in the Abuja Declaration to reduce poverty, and to increase budgetary allocations towards health and development programmes that would eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity; “10. Urges Member States, civil society, especially women’s organizations, and the private sector to strengthen partnerships to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity; “11. Encourages States to collect data disaggregated by sex and age and other categories on a range of factors contributing to maternal mortality and morbidity, as needed for monitoring in a timely fashion progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5, and to share such data with the United Nations system for better tracking of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 and its targets; “12. Requests the Secretary-General to contribute information to existing United Nations web resources for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Millennium Development Goal 5, to track progress, make accurate and verifiable statistics accessible, provide information on coordination and activities within the United Nations system and, as feasible, to include a compendium of best practices that have been adopted by Member States, United Nations bodies, funds and programmes, the private sector and non-governmental organizations on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, including through the elimination of gender discrimination and gender inequalities; “13. Requests the Secretary-General to provide a report to the Commission at its fifty-fifth session, in consultation with Member States, international organizations, and all other relevant stakeholders, taking into account Human Rights Council resolution 11/8, on actions to strengthen linkages among programmes throughout the United Nations system for the empowerment of women and girls, protection of their human rights and elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity; “14. Decides to hold at its fifty-fifth session an expert panel discussion on the implementation of the present resolution, including oral briefings by and interactive discussion with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the GAVI Alliance, the Global Fund, the private sector and civil society.” 104. At the 20th meeting, on 12 March, the representative of the United States, on behalf of the sponsors, orally revised draft resolution E/CN.6/2010/L.6. 80 10-30576