A/RES/54/148 Page 4 13. Stresses the importance of a substantive assessment of the implementation of the Platform for Action with a life-cycle perspective so as to identify gaps and obstacles in the implementation process and to develop further actions for the achievement of the goals of the Platform for Action; 14. Calls upon Governments, the United Nations system, in particular the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat, non-governmental organizations and women’s organizations to ensure that, in the preparation for the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, the needs and the rights of the girl child are duly taken into account and integrated into all activities; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the needs and the rights of the girl child are specifically assessed in the five-year review of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development,8 to be held in June 2000; 16. Also requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Bank, to ensure that the needs and the rights of the girl child are given special attention in all preparatory processes at the national, regional and international levels, including the Education for All 2000 Assessment9 and the agenda of the World Education Forum, to be held in April 2000; 17. Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the needs and the rights of the girl child are integrated into the preparatory work for the special session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the World Summit for Children in 2001, inter alia, by providing the General Assembly with a comprehensive report drawing on the experiences and outcomes of the five-year reviews of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the World Summit for Social Development, and the World Education Forum. 83rd plenary meeting 17 December 1999 8 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 9 See A/54/128–E/1999/70. /...