through appropriate channels with a view to assisting women living in poverty to be active agents as well as direct beneficiaries of poverty eradication programmes; 9. Calls upon multilateral institutions and donor countries to provide assistance to developing countries to improve the availability and reliability of statistics and baseline data on the situation of women in extreme poverty; 10. Encourages multilateral institutions, bilateral mechanisms and donor countries to provide technical and financial cooperation to developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, in order to complement and strengthen national efforts, taking into account that such assistance, while continuing to address emergency situations, should also be directed to mediumand long-term self-sustaining programmes. Resolution 37/9. The work programme on the advancement of women and the proposed restructuring of the economic and social activities of the United Nations* The Commission on the Status of Women, Stressing the importance of women in economic, social, political, cultural and all other aspects of human life, Affirming the central role of the United Nations in advancing the status of women through, inter alia, its efforts to draw world attention to issues affecting women and to integrate a gender perspective into issues considered throughout the United Nations system, Recognizing the importance of the achievements of the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to United Nations efforts for the advancement of women, Emphasizing the importance to the work of the Commission on the Status of Women of the continuing inclusion of experts in women’s affairs as members of the delegations of Member States, Acknowledging the increasing priority being given to women’s issues and human development issues and recognizing the role of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs in giving visibility to those concerns, Recognizing the interrelationship between the goals and likely outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be held at Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, and the World Summit for Social Development, to be held at Copenhagen early in 1995, Noting that the Fourth World Conference on Women and the World Summit for Social Development will consider institutional mechanisms in their respective areas, ________________________ * For the discussion, see chap. V. -50-