A/RES/67/147 Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula fistula repair, treatment and care as a standard element of the training curricula of health professionals; (k) To strengthen awareness-raising and advocacy, including through the media, to effectively reach families with key messages on fistula prevention and treatment and social reintegration; (l) To strengthen research, monitoring and evaluation systems, including by developing a community- and facility-based mechanism for the systematic notification of obstetric fistula cases and maternal and newborn deaths to ministries of health, in a national register, as well as for the purpose of guiding the implementation of maternal health programmes; (m) To strengthen research, data collection, monitoring and evaluation to guide the planning and implementation of maternal health programmes, including for obstetric fistula, by conducting up-to-date needs assessments on emergency obstetric and newborn care and for fistula, and routine reviews of maternal deaths and near-miss cases, as part of a national maternal death surveillance and response system, integrated within national health information systems; (n) To improve data collection, pre- and post-surgery, to measure progress in addressing the needs for surgical treatment and the quality of surgery, rehabilitation and socioeconomic reintegration services, including post-surgery prospects for successful subsequent pregnancies, live births and severe health-related complications, so as to address the challenges of improving maternal health; (o) To provide essential health-care services, equipment and supplies and skills training and income-generating projects to women and girls so that they can break out of the cycle of poverty; 10. Urges the international community to address the shortage of doctors and the inequitable distribution of midwives, nurses and other health workers trained in life-saving obstetric care and of space and supplies, which limit the capacity of most fistula centres; 11. 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 reach young women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas; 12. Calls upon the international community to designate 23 May as the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, and henceforth use the International Day each year to significantly raise awareness and intensify actions towards ending obstetric fistula; 13. Invites Member States to contribute to efforts to end obstetric fistula, including, in particular, the United Nations Population Fund Campaign to End Fistula, with the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula globally, in line with the targets of the Millennium Development Goal of improving maternal health; 14. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution under the item entitled “Advancement of women”. 60th plenary meeting 20 December 2012 6/6