A/RES/55/258 XIII Competencies, performance management and career development 1. Emphasizes the necessity for the United Nations to develop a culture of continuous learning, and welcomes the progress made in this regard, and stresses the role of the United Nations Staff College to this effect as an institution for system-wide knowledge management, training and continuous learning for the staff of the United Nations system, aimed, in particular, at the areas of economic and social development, peace and security and internal management of the United Nations system; 2. Agrees with the goal of the Secretary-General to create a fair, equitable, transparent and measurable system of performance management throughout the Secretariat, and underlines the importance of creating a comprehensive career development system; 3. Endorses the proposals of the Secretary-General concerning performance management and career development, bearing in mind the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session regarding the implementation of his proposals; XIV Status of women in the Secretariat Reaffirming that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibility for administrative and budgetary matters related to the question of the status of women in the Secretariat, 1. Reaffirms the provisions of section X of its resolution 53/221, and recalls its resolution 55/69; 2. Urges the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts to achieve the goal of 50/50 gender distribution reaffirmed in section X, paragraph 3, of resolution 53/221; XV Reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services 1. Takes note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the follow-up audit of the recruitment process in the Office of Human Resources Management;5 2. Also takes note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the proactive investigation of the education grant entitlement;14 XVI Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly for consideration at its fifty-seventh session a detailed report on the results of the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution. 103rd plenary meeting 14 June 2001 14 See A/55/352 and Corr.1. 10