A/RES/58/148 21. Recognizes the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building, the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security and the need to increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution, and urges the United Nations system and Governments to make further efforts in this regard and to take steps to ensure and support the full participation of women at all levels of decision-making and implementation in development activities and peace processes, including conflict prevention and resolution, post-conflict reconstruction, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building, as well as through the integration of a gender perspective into those United Nations processes; 22. Expresses its appreciation for the efforts made by all relevant organizations of the United Nations system in promoting the role of women in conflict prevention and resolution; 23. Welcomes the convening of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005, and encourages Governments and all other stakeholders to integrate a gender perspective into the preparatory processes and outcome documents, taking into account the agreed conclusions on women’s participation in and access to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women, adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session, 11 and the report of the Secretary-General;6 24. Also welcomes the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 12 and urges States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocol; 25. Requests all bodies that deal with programme and budgetary matters, including the Committee for Programme and Coordination, to ensure that all programmes, medium-term plans and programme budgets visibly mainstream a gender perspective; 26. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to disseminate the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session as widely as possible in all the official languages of the United Nations; 27. Also requests the Secretary-General to integrate a gender perspective in his reporting to the General Assembly, in order to support gender-sensitive policy formulation; 28. Further requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women on the follow-up to and progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, with an assessment of progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective within the United Nations system, including by providing information on key achievements, lessons learned and best practices, and to recommend further measures and strategies for future action within the United Nations system; _______________ 11 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 7 (E/2003/27), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/44. 12 Resolution 54/4, annex. 5