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23. Encourages the international community, the United Nations system, the
private sector and civil society to continue to provide the necessary financial
resources to assist national Governments in their efforts to meet the development
targets and benchmarks agreed upon at the World Summit for Social Development,
the Fourth World Conference on Women, the International Conference on
Population and Development, the Millennium Summit, the International Conference
on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the
Second World Assembly on Ageing, the twenty-third and twenty-fourth special
sessions of the General Assembly and other relevant United Nations conferences
and summits;
24. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions,
within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and
implement policies to support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of
resources reaches women, in particular in rural and remote areas;
25. Stresses the importance of collecting and exchanging all relevant
information needed on the role of women in development, including data on
international migration, as well as the need to develop statistics disaggregated by
age and sex, and in that regard encourages developed countries and relevant entities
of the United Nations to provide support and assistance to developing countries,
upon their request, with respect to establishing, developing and strengthening their
databases and information systems;
26. Calls upon all organizations of the United Nations system, within their
organizational mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender
equality in their country programmes, planning instruments and sector-wide
programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this field in
accordance with the national development strategies;
27. Calls upon the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming
into all its programmes and policies, including in the integrated follow-up to United
Nations conferences, in accordance with agreed conclusions 1997/2 on gender
mainstreaming adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive
session of 1997; 9
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28. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the
present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national
development strategies;
29. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session
the sub-item entitled “Women in development”.
78th plenary meeting
19 December 2007
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 3 and addendum
(A/52/3/Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1), chap. IV, sect. A, para. 4.
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