A/RES/52/209 Page 3 in promoting the development of entrepreneurship, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, and calls upon the international community to lend its support to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in this regard; 15. Stresses that the outsourcing of work from transnational corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises supports the development of entrepreneurship and privatization in developing countries; 16. Calls upon the United Nations funds and programmes, in accordance with their mandates, to continue to strengthen support to the promotion of entrepreneurship and, in their work in implementing the present resolution, to give due consideration to the role of the private sector in development, taking into account the priorities set by each country, while ensuring a gender perspective, and, in this connection, states that there is a need to assist in particular the Governments of developing countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, in strengthening their capacity to encourage wider participation of the private sector; 17. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled "Business and development", and requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with relevant United Nations bodies, to prepare a report which includes analytical work on the implementation of the present resolution for submission to the General Assembly at that session. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 1997