Resolution 37/1. Preliminary proposals for the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001* The Commission on the Status of Women, Bearing in mind that the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1990-1995 (E/1987/52) has yet to be evaluated, Bearing in mind that the United Nations planning cycle to which the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women was matched has changed and that there has been a general shift to a more strategic form of planning, Recognizing that the Platform for Action to emerge from the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace cannot be reflected in the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001, which must be approved in 1993, Having been informed that the Ad hoc Inter-agency Meeting on Women, at its seventeenth session, held from 15 to 16 March 1993, recommended that the United Nations system consider the establishment of a new kind of mechanism that would allow system-wide planning that was more dynamic and flexible with a shorter time-period and that would serve as a more useful instrument for coordination within the system, Noting that programme 7 (The role of women in sustainable development) of the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001 has yet to be reformulated in the light of Agenda 21, 37/ Noting that the Secretary-General requested the Commission on the Status of Women to make comments and suggestions regarding any necessary changes to the draft system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001, 1. Recommends that the Economic and Social Council request the Secretary-General to revise the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001 after the Platform for Action and the second review and appraisal of the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women have been formulated and adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, in 1995; 2. Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure that any revised system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women be more concise, take account of the changes in the United Nations planning cycle, take a more strategic approach highlighting policy implications, and include more substantial strategies, time-frames, concrete measures, resources and allocation of responsibility for implementation; * For the discussion, see chap. II. 37/ Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8), resolution I, annex II. -28-