A/RES/59/250 quantitative and qualitative information required to produce better analysis of gender-related issues of development; 88. Requests all entities of the United Nations system to enhance the effectiveness of gender specialist resources, gender focal points and gender theme groups by establishing clear mandates, by ensuring adequate training, access to information and to adequate and stable resources, and by increasing the support and participation of senior staff; 89. Calls upon the United Nations development system to avail itself of the technical experience of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on gender issues; 90. Encourages the continuing efforts to achieve gender balance in appointments within the United Nations system at the headquarters and country levels in positions that affect operational activities, including resident coordinator appointments, with due regard to representation of women from developing countries and keeping in mind the principle of equitable geographic representation; 91. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the annual report on resident coordinators includes adequate and concise information on progress on the above; XI Transition from relief to development 92. Takes note of the ongoing work within the United Nations on the complex issue of transition from relief to development; 93. Recognizes that the United Nations development system has a vital role to play in situations of transition from relief to development; 94. Requests the organizations of the system to strengthen interdepartmental and inter-agency coordination to ensure an integrated, coherent and coordinated approach to assistance at the country level, which takes account of the complexity of challenges that countries in those circumstances face and the country-specific character of those challenges; 95. Recognizes, in this regard, the important role that the effective resident coordinator/humanitarian coordinator system can play in situations of transition from relief to development; 96. Stresses, in this regard, the need for such transitional activities to be undertaken under national ownership through the development of national capacities at all levels to manage the transition process; 97. Recognizes the benefits of sharing experience and expertise, and encourages the development of South-South cooperation modalities, including triangular cooperation modalities, to assist the transition from relief to development through, inter alia, the use of information technologies and knowledge management systems, as well as exchange of expertise to enable countries in that situation to benefit from the experience of other developing countries; 98. Urges the donor countries and other countries in a position to do so to consider more coordinated and flexible approaches to funding operational activities for development in situations of transition from relief to development, making use of multiple resource mobilization instruments, and stresses that contributions to 14