A/RES/59/150 3. Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take into account the needs and concerns of older persons in decision-making at all levels; Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in 4. order to promote and facilitate the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 4 and in this connection, encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request; Invites Governments, intergovernmental organizations and non5. governmental organizations to encourage and support comprehensive, diversified and specialized research on ageing in all countries; Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council 6. to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action; Recommends that the Commission on the Status of Women continue to 7. consider the situation of older women, in particular those who are most vulnerable, including those living in rural areas; Encourages those regional commissions that have not yet done so to 8. elaborate a regional strategy for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action; 9. Takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1, 2 and in this context requests the Secretary-General to present his proposals for conducting the review and appraisal exercise at the regional and global levels to the Commission at its forty-fourth session; 10. Requests the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to continue to strengthen the capacity of the focal points on ageing and to provide them with adequate resources for the further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, in particular through appropriate mainstreaming action; 11. Stresses the importance of the collection of data and population statistics disaggregated by age and sex on all aspects of policy formulation by all countries, and encourages the relevant entities of the United Nations system to support national efforts in capacity-building, especially those of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, takes note in this context of the establishment by the United Nations of an Internet-accessible database on ageing, and invites States to submit, whenever possible, information for inclusion in the database; 12. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General, 5 and requests that it be forwarded to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-third session in order to assist the Commission in its deliberations; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 _______________ 4 Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 5 A/59/164. 2