E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 functional commissions to report on the progress made in implementing agreed conclusions 1997/2 in their work; (c) Ensuring that a gender perspective is mainstreamed into all its work and , in order to enhance its ability to do so, requesting the Secretary-General and bodies reporting to the Economic and Social Council to address the gender aspects of issues before the Council in their reports; (d) Further intensifying its efforts to ensure that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of all its activities concerning integrated and coordinated follow-up to United Nations conferences, building upon agreed conclusions 1997/2. Resolution 45/3 Proposed system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women, 2002-2005* The Commission on the Status of Women , Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/34 of 25 July 1996, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, to formulate a new system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women to cover the period 2002-2005, to submit the new draft plan to the Council at its substantive session of 2000 in order to provide guidance for the medium-term plans of the individual organizations of the United Nations system, and to submit the draft plan to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-fourth session for comments, Further recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1999/16, in which the Council invites the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, to formulate the above-mentioned plan for 2002-2005 in two phases — a first phase consisting of an assessment of activities undertaken by the United Nations system and of obstacles encountered and lessons learned from the present plan and the system-wide process of its implementation, and the second phase consisting of a new plan that reflects the growing emphasis on action and delivery, Recognizing the role of the Economic and Social Council in overseeing the system-wide coordination in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action 48 and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, 49 Recalling that Governments have the primary responsibility for implementing the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, Further recalling that the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly need to be implemented through the work of all of the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system as an integral part of system-wide programming, __________________ * 48 49 For the discussion, see chap. II. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 ( U n i t e d Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. General Assembly resolutions S-23/2, annex, and S-23/3, annex. 25