A/RES/59/227 3. Calls upon Governments, all relevant international and regional organizations, the Economic and Social Council, the United Nations funds and programmes, the regional commissions and specialized agencies, the international financial institutions, the Global Environment Facility and other intergovernmental organizations, in accordance with their respective mandates, as well as major groups, to take action to ensure the effective implementation of and follow-up to the commitments, programmes and time-bound targets adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and encourages them to report on concrete progress in that regard; Calls for the implementation of the commitments, programmes and time4. bound targets adopted at the Summit and, to that end, for the fulfilment of the provisions relating to the means of implementation, as contained in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation; Encourages Governments to participate, at the appropriate level, with 5. representatives from the relevant departments and agencies in water, sanitation and human settlements, as well as finance, in the intergovernmental preparatory meeting and the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development; Recalls the decision of the Commission at its eleventh session to invite 6. the regional commissions, in collaboration with the secretariat of the Commission, to consider organizing regional implementation meetings in order to contribute to the work of the Commission,9 and in this regard urges the regional commissions to take into account the relevant thematic clusters contained in the programme of work of the Commission and to provide inputs as specified by the Commission at its eleventh session; Recalls also the decision of the Commission at its eleventh session that 7. activities during Commission meetings should provide for the balanced involvement of participants from all regions, as well as for gender balance;9 8. Welcomes the contributions of the regional commissions to the work of the Commission at its twelfth session, including the regional meetings focusing on the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements, and their inputs to the reports of the Secretary-General; Invites donor countries to consider supporting the participation of experts 9. from the developing countries in the areas of water, sanitation and human settlements in the thirteenth session of the Commission; 10. Takes note with interest of the establishment of the Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation by the Secretary-General, and looks forward to its contribution to the mobilization of efforts and resources towards the implementation of the commitments, goals and targets agreed upon in these areas; 11. Requests the Secretary-General, in reporting to the Commission at its thirteenth session on the state of the implementation of Agenda 21,2 the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 213 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation,5 on the basis of appropriate inputs from all levels, to submit thematic reports on each of the three issues contained in the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements, taking into account their interlinkages, while addressing the cross-cutting issues identified by the Commission at its eleventh session;9 12. Requests the Commission, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 47/191 of 22 December 1992 and as specified by the Commission at its 3