E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 7. Recommends that the System-wide Medium-term Plan for the Advancement of Women 2002-2005 serve as a monitoring and coordination tool at all levels for system-wide progress in implementing actions under each critical area of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly; 8. Stresses the importance of involving all parts of the United Nations in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including at the highest decision-making levels; 9. 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, taking into account the multi-year programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women for 2002-2006 and of the Economic and Social Council, and to provide up-to-date 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; 10. Recommends that the Economic and Social Council, through the Commission on the Status of Women, follow-up the implementation of the plan and undertake a comprehensive mid-term review of the implementation of the plan in 2004, including the identification of obstacles and challenges 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 the progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective in all activities of the United Nations system; 11. Also recommends that the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the Inter-Agency Meeting on Women and Gender Equality 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 assessment of methods for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all United Nations activities, ensuring accountability and carrying out impact analyses of gender-sensitive programmes and policies; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in all United Nations activities system-wide, including in decisionmaking, as part of the accountability of senior managers; 13. Further requests the Secretary-General, in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, to integrate a gender perspective in budgetary decisions on policies and programmes and to assure adequate financing of specific programmes for securing equality between women and men; 14. Recommends that the Economic and Social Council request formulation of a new System-wide Medium-term Plan for the Advancement of Women to cover the period 2006-2010, that the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, submit the new draft plan to the Council at its substantive session of 2005 in order to provide guidance to the medium-term plans of the individual organizations of the United Nations system and that the draft of the proposal be submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session, for comments. 27