"4. Decides, in the light of the need for a focused and thematic multi-year work programme on the critical areas of concern and bearing in mind that the critical areas of concern are interrelated and interdependent, on the following calendar: "1997 Education and training of women (Platform for Action, chapter IV.B) Women and the economy (Platform for Action, chapter IV.F) Women in power and decision-making (Platform for Action, chapter IV.G) Women and the environment (Platform for Action, chapter IV.K) "1998 Violence against women (Platform for Action, chapter IV.D) Women and armed conflict (Platform for Action, chapter IV.E) Human rights of women (Platform for Action, chapter IV.I) The girl child (Platform for Action, chapter IV.L) "1999 Women and health (Platform for Action, chapter IV.C) Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women (Platform for Action, chapter IV.H) Initiation of the comprehensive review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform for Action "2000 Comprehensive quinquennial review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform for Action Emerging issues V "Regional [dimension] "Recalling the important role played by regional preparatory conferences in the preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women and that plans and programmes of action were adopted that served as essential inputs to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, "1. Recommends that the regional follow-up and monitoring of the regional platforms and programmes of action should be utilized as inputs for the review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; "2. Recommends further that the Council [should] consider how best to integrate the inputs of regional commissions into the overall monitoring and follow-up to the Platform for Action." -76-