A/RES/55/194 IV Action at the local, national and regional levels 1. Calls upon all States to strengthen broad-based, participatory, genderbalanced national habitat committees, or similar consultative mechanisms, to review and report on local and national plans of action and, through consultative mechanisms, to coordinate and support further the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at the local and national levels; 2. Urges States to focus their assessment and monitoring of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at the local, national and regional levels on key commitments related to policies and methods of evaluation, and recommends that States identify best practices, including enabling policies, legislation and exemplary plans of action, in implementing the Habitat Agenda in a gendersensitive way, that they promote research on low-cost building technology for affordable housing and that they support the transfer of all such knowledge to ensure sustainability; 3. Confirms that the special session should facilitate sharing views on local, national and regional experiences in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda; V Partnership and the role of civil society 1. Encourages Member States to integrate contributions made by different partner groups towards further implementation of the Habitat Agenda in their national reports and to consider the inclusion of partner groups in broad-based, gender-balanced national delegations; 2. Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to report to the Preparatory Committee at its second session on the activities of the Advisory Committee of Local Authorities; VI Monitoring and assessment 1. Encourages Member States and Habitat Agenda partners to provide support for the preparation of the Global Report on Human Settlements and the State of the World’s Cities report on a biennial basis so as to raise awareness of human settlements and to provide information on urban conditions and trends around the world; 2. Recommends that the Commission on Human Settlements pursue agreement by all Member States on a pool of common and easy-to-measure indicators applicable for national reporting and evaluation; 3. Encourages all relevant United Nations organizations and agencies and other development partners to support the efforts of national Governments to coordinate data collection and analysis and to develop a monitoring system at the local level on sustainable human settlements, with appropriate strengthening at all levels; 4. Encourages all Governments and partners to submit to the Secretariat examples of enabling urban policies and legislation relating to key items selected for 4