E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 Recalling also that in its resolution 2013/18 the Council requested the Commission at its sixtieth session to decide on its future multi -year programme of work, Recalling further its resolution 2015/6 of 8 June 2015, in which the Council requested the Commission to continue to apply a thematic approach to its work and to adopt a multi-year programme of work to allow predictability and adequate time for preparation; in selecting its priority theme, taking into consideration, in addition to the Beijing Platform for Action 13 and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, 14 the programme of work of the Council, as well as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 15 so as to build synergies and contribute to the work of the Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development, according to the modalities to be established by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council in the context of the high-level political forum, Recalling that the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with their respective mandates and in accordance with Assembly resolution 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and other relevant resolutions, should constitute a three tiered intergovernmental mechanism that would play the primary role in the overall policymaking and follow-up, and in coordinating the implementation and monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action and reaffirming the catalytic role of the Commission in mainstreaming a gender perspective in policies and programmes, Acknowledging the centrality of the Beijing Platform for Action to the work of the Commission on the Status of Women, and recognizing that a robust, voluntary, effective, participatory, transparent and integrated follow -up and review framework of the 2030 Agenda will make a vital contribution to the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and help countries to maximize and track progress in order to ensure that no one is left behind, Recalling the invitation to the Commission on the Status of Women to consider the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women at a future session, as stated in paragraph 19 of General Assembly resolution 69/2 of 22 September 2014, and acknowledging the intention to place this issue as a focus area of its sixty-first session, Themes for 2017-2019 1. Decides that the Commission’s multi-year programme of work for the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third sessions will be as follows: (a) Sixty-first session (2017): (i) Priority theme: women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work; __________________ 13 14 15 20/62 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 -15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. General Assembly resolution 70/1. 16-05842