A/RES/59/149 8. Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to reinforce its lead coordinating role in stimulating and catalysing the activities undertaken at the international level within the framework of the Decade in a manner that is complementary to and coordinated with the ongoing Education for All process, with the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and with other global initiatives; Requests all relevant entities of the United Nations system, particularly 9. the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in cooperation with national Governments, to take immediate, concrete steps to address the needs of countries with high illiteracy rates and/or with large populations of illiterate adults, with particular regard to women; 10. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to seek the views of Member States on the progress achieved in implementing their national programmes and plans of action for the Decade and to submit progress reports on the implementation of the International Plan of Action to the General Assembly on a biennial basis, beginning in 2006; 11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family”, the sub-item entitled “United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all”. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 3