wide progress in implementing actions under each critical area of concern in the Platform for Action; "7. Stresses the importance of involving all parts of the United Nations in the implementation of the Platform for Action, including the decision-making level; "8. Invites the United Nations bodies that meet under the auspices of the Administrative Committee on Coordination to regularly discuss progress made in implementing activities under each area of critical concern, in keeping with the long-term programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women and the Economic and Social Council, and to provide up-todate information in those areas to the Council through the Commission, taking into consideration the comments made on the plan by the Commission and other relevant bodies; "9. Recommends that the Council, through the Commission, undertake a comprehensive mid-term review of the implementation of the plan as a basis for future programming and coordination of activities for the advancement and empowerment of women by the United Nations system, including a review of progress in mainstreaming a gender perspective in all activities of the United Nations system; "10. Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the Council for its consideration of the draft plan the comments of the Committee for Programme and Coordination and the Administrative Committee on Coordination, along with the comments of the Commission; "11. Recommends that the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the proposed Inter-Agency Committee on Advancement and Employment of Women use the plan and comments on it as a basis for monitoring increasing collaboration and cost-effective approaches to United Nations system activities for the advancement and empowerment of women, including the assessment of the need for the preparation of guidelines on methods for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all United Nations activities, ensuring accountability and carrying out impact analyses of gender-aware programmes and policies; "12. Recommends that the Council request the Secretary-General to submit to it, through the Commission at its forty-second session, a progress report on the implementation of the plan; "13. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the mainstreaming of a system-wide gender perspective in all United Nations activities, including in decision-making as part of the accountability of senior managers; "14. Urges the Secretary-General to implement the decision taken by the General Assembly at its fiftieth session to strengthen the capacity of the Division on the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Secretariat, and emphasizes the need to provide the necessary resources for the comprehensive follow-up of the Platform for Action in the current revision of the programme budget for the biennium; "15. Recommends that the Council request the formulation of a new system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women to cover the period 2002-2005, and that the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, submit the new -79-