E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 (f) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women on strengthening of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women;33 (g) Report of the Secretary-General on enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work;34 (h) Report of the Secretary-General on equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels;35 Agreed conclusions Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work* 1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirmed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,14 the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,16 the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000,21 the Declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women,36 the 2005 World Summit,37 as well as all relevant General Assembly resolutions and outcomes of United Nations conferences; reiterated that women’s empowerment and their full participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society, including participation in the decision-making process and access to power, were fundamental for the achievement of equality, development, peace and security; and emphasized the need to ensure the full integration and full participation of women as both agents and beneficiaries in the development process and its commitment to strengthening and safeguarding a national and international enabling environment, inter alia, through promoting and protecting all human rights and fundamental freedoms, mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes, and promoting the full participation and empowerment of women and enhanced international cooperation. 2. The Commission reaffirmed also that the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was an essential contribution to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and that the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women was of fundamental importance in sustainable development, achieving sustained economic growth, eradicating poverty and hunger and combating diseases, and that investing in the development of women and girls had a multiplier effect, in particular on productivity, efficiency and sustained __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 25-31. E/CN.6/2006/11. 34 E/CN.6/2006/12. 35 E/CN.6/2006/13. 36 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 27 and corrigendum (E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I.A. 37 See General Assembly resolution 60/1. 33 22