A/RES/60/229 actively participate in and contribute to the examination of the special theme for the thirty-ninth session of the Commission on Population and Development in 2006, “International migration and development”; Encourages the Institute to continue, in close cooperation with other 6. relevant United Nations bodies, to promote and undertake research and training programmes on gender mainstreaming, in the context of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,1 as well as the commitments made at the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly; 7. Requests the Institute, within its mandate, to continue to assist countries in promoting and supporting the political participation and economic and social advancement of women through training programmes; Stresses the critical importance of voluntary financial contributions by 8. Member States to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women to enable it to carry out its mandate; Invites Member States to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund, 9. particularly during this critical transitional period; 10. Decides to provide its full support to the current efforts to revitalize the Institute and, in this regard, to provide it with the requisite funds to enable it to carry out its core functions for the biennium 2006–2007; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution. 69th plenary meeting 23 December 2005 3