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mainstreaming adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive
session of 1997; 9
36. Encourages all relevant United Nations funds and programmes and the
specialized agencies, in accordance with their respective mandates, to assist
Governments, at their request, in strengthening their capacity to promote and
support the economic advancement of women through, inter alia, employment and
entrepreneurship practices and programmes that affirm and empower women;
37. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to update the World
Survey on the Role of Women in Development for the consideration of the General
Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, noting that the survey should continue to focus
on selective emerging development themes that have an impact on the role of
women in the economy at the national, regional and international levels;
38. Decides that the theme for the next survey will be “Women’s control over
economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance”;
39. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-second session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the
present resolution, including women’s increased participation in government
decision-making bodies and its impact on the eradication of poverty;
40. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session
the sub-item entitled “Women in development”.
68th plenary meeting
22 December 2005
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/52/3/Rev.1),
chap. IV.A, para. 4.
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