investment to close resource gaps, including through
the mobilization of financial resources from all
sources, including domestic resource mobilization
and allocation and increased priority on gender
equality and the empowerment of women in official
development assistance to build on progress achieved
and ensure that official development assistance is
used effectively to contribute to the implementation
of the Platform for Action; strengthened accountability
for the implementation of existing commitments;
and enhanced capacity-building, data collection,
monitoring and evaluation, and access to and use of
information and communications technologies;
Women (UN-Women) in promoting gender equality
and the empowerment of women and the central
role it is playing in supporting Member States and
in coordinating the United Nations system and in
mobilizing civil society, the private sector and other
relevant stakeholders, at all levels, in support of the
review and appraisal of the implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and call
upon UN-Women and the United Nations system to
continue to support the full, effective and accelerated
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and its review and appraisal at
the international, regional, national and local levels,
including through systematic gender mainstreaming,
the mobilization of resources to deliver results and
the monitoring of progress with data and robust
accountability systems;
7. Emphasize that the full and effective implementation
of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
is essential for achieving the unfinished business
of the Millennium Development Goals and for
tackling the critical remaining challenges through a
transformative and comprehensive approach in the
post-2015 development agenda, including through the
sustainable development goal on achieving gender
equality and empowering all women and girls, as
proposed by the Open Working Group on Sustainable
Development Goals in its report, which shall be the
main basis for integrating sustainable development
goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while
recognizing that other inputs will also be considered,
in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the
sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and also
through the integration of a gender perspective into
the post-2015 development agenda;
10. Welcome the contributions made by civil society,
including non-governmental organizations and
women’s and community-based organizations, to
the implementation of the Platform for Action, and
pledge to continue supporting, at the local, national,
regional and global levels, civil society engaged in the
advancement and promotion of gender equality and
the empowerment of women and girls, including
by promoting a safe and enabling environment for
civil society;
11. Recognize the importance of the full engagement
of men and boys for the achievement of gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
and commit to taking measures to fully engage men
and boys in efforts to achieve the full, effective and
accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action;
8. Reaffirm
the primary responsibility of the
Commission on the Status of Women for the followup to the Fourth World Conference on Women and
the outcome documents of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly and recall the
follow-up work of the Commission in that regard,
and also reaffirm its catalytic role in promoting
gender equality and the empowerment of women,
on the basis of the full implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the
outcome documents of the twenty-third special
session, and in promoting and monitoring gender
mainstreaming within the United Nations system;
12. Commit to engaging all stakeholders for the achieve-
ment of gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls, and call upon them to intensify
their efforts in this regard;
13. Also commit to using all opportunities and processes
in 2015 and beyond to accelerate and achieve the
full and effective implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action in order to
achieve concrete results in each review cycle, and
strive for the full realization of gender equality and
the empowerment of women by 2030.
9. Recognize the important role of the United Nations
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
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