Women in development A/RES/74/235 development, poverty eradication and environmental policies, strategies and programmes; 61. Urges multilateral donors and invites international financial institutions, within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reaches women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas; 62. Recognizes the ongoing intergovernmental efforts to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and urges the United Nations system to continue efforts to achieve gender balance in appointments to all ca tegories of staff, including the Professional and higher categories, within the United Nations system at the Headquarters, regional and country levels, bearing in mind the principle of equitable geographical representation and in line with Article 101 of t he Charter of the United Nations, with due regard to the representation of women from developing countries, and convinced of the need to guarantee equal opportunities for women and men in gaining access to senior decision-making positions, including to the post of Secretary-General, and in this regard notes the Secretary-General’s system-wide strategy on gender parity; 63. Calls upon all organizations of the United Nations system, within their organizational mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender equality in their country programmes, planning instruments, investment frameworks and sector-wide programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this domain in accordance with national development strategies, wel comes the work of UN-Women with United Nations country teams in assisting Member States, at their request, in the integration of a gender perspective into national development policies and strategies, including sustainable development policies and strategi es, in accordance with their national priorities, and stresses its important role in leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability of the United Nations system so as to ensure that the commitment to gender equality and gender mainstreaming transla tes into effective action throughout the world; 64. Calls upon organizations of the United Nations development system, within their organizational mandates, to further improve their institutional accountability mechanisms and to include intergovernmentall y agreed gender equality results and gender-sensitive indicators in their strategic frameworks, as set out in its resolution 71/243; 65. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest behind first; 66. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-sixth session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub-item entitled “Women in development”, and also requests the Secretary-General to update the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development for the consideration of the Assembly at its seventy-ninth session. 52nd plenary meeting 19 December 2019 19-22508 17/17

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