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14. Urges multilateral donors, international financial institutions and regional development banks to
review and implement policies in support of national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources
reach women, in particular women in rural and remote areas;
15. Calls upon the United Nations system to support developing countries in their efforts to integrate
gender concerns into national programmes and to implement those programmes, including by providing
adequate resources for operational activities for development;
16. Also calls upon the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its
programmes and policies, including in the integrated follow-up to United Nations conferences, in accordance
with agreed conclusions 1997/2 on gender mainstreaming adopted by the Economic and Social Council at
its substantive session of 1997;4
17. Requests the United Nations development system to continue working towards establishing a more
coherent approach to its support for the income-generating activities of women, in particular credit schemes;
18. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the sub-item entitled "Women
in development";
19. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a report
on the outcome of the implementation of the present resolution, including the impact of the globalization and
liberalization processes on the integration of women in development, the implementation of operational
activities for development of the United Nations system in enhancing the participation of women in national
development programmes and the gender mainstreaming of United Nations programmes and policies.
77th plenary meeting
18 December 1997
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See A/52/3, chap. IV.A, para. 4. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fiftysecond Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/52/3/Rev.1).