(f) Report on the implementation of the Platform for Action, on the basis of national reports, taking into account the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women (in 2000); IV Work programme of the Commission on the Status of Women 1. Adopts a multi-year work programme for a focused and thematic approach, culminating in a quinquennial review and appraisal of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women; the work programme, inter alia, will provide a framework to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Platform for Action and will be in line with the coordinated follow-up to conferences; 2. Decides that the work of the Commission in relation to the programme of work shall be closely related to the relevant provisions of the Platform for Action, with a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the Platform for Action; 3. Decides that the agenda for the Commission shall consist of the following: 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women: (a) Review of mainstreaming in organizations of the United Nations system; (b) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men; (c) Implementation of strategic objectives and action in the critical areas of concern. 4. Communications concerning the status of women. 5. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, including the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention. 6. Provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-first session. 4. Decides, in the light of the need for a focused and thematic multi-year work programme on the critical areas of concern and bearing in mind that the critical areas of concern are interrelated and interdependent, on the following calendar: 1997 Education and training of women (Platform for Action, chap. IV.B) Women and the economy (Platform for Action, chap. IV.F) -6-

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