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work programme for the period 1996-2000, and also welcomes the agreed
conclusions 1996/1 of the Commission on the Status of Women of March 1996 on
the Commission's methods of work for dealing with the implementation of the
Platform for Action;10
40.
Invites once again all other functional commissions of the
Economic and Social Council, within their mandates, to take due account of the
Platform for Action and to ensure the integration of gender aspects in their
respective work;
41.
Welcomes the measures taken by the Secretary-General to date to
ensure coordination of policy within the United Nations for the implementation
of the Platform for Action and the mainstreaming of a system-wide gender
perspective in all activities of the United Nations system, including
training, in accordance with paragraph 326 of the Platform for Action;
42.
Requests the Secretary-General to present action-oriented
recommendations to the Economic and Social Council at its coordination segment
on means to enhance system-wide coordination on gender issues and to
mainstream a gender perspective throughout the United Nations system;
43.
Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to disseminate the
Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action as widely as possible,
including to the competent organs of the United Nations and the specialized
agencies;
44.
Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that the
Division for the Advancement of Women can effectively carry out all the tasks
foreseen for it in the Platform for Action by, inter alia, providing
sufficient human and financial resources within the regular budget of the
United Nations;
45.
Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, to ensure that the
resident coordinators fully incorporate a gender perspective in integrating
the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women into the coordinated
follow-up to recent global United Nations conferences;
46.
Welcomes the decision of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women to amend its reporting guidelines in line with
the recommendations of paragraph 323 of the Platform for Action to enable it
to consider reports submitted by States parties, and invites States parties to
include information on measures taken to implement the Platform for Action in
their reports;
47.
Notes the importance of the activities undertaken by the United
Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training
Institute for the Advancement of Women in the implementation of the Platform
for Action;
48.
Commends the work of the International Research and Training
Institute for the Advancement of Women on the issues addressing, inter alia,
10
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement
No. 6 (E/1996/26), chap. I, sect. C. 1.
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