Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women 79. At the 14th meeting, on 21 March, the representative of the Philippines introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1996/L.13) entitled "Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women", which was submitted by her as coordinator of the informal consultations held on agenda item 3. The draft resolution read as follows: "The Economic and Social Council, "Welcoming the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of its Platform for Action, "Bearing in mind Economic and Social Council resolutions ll (II) of 21 June 1946 and 48 (IV) of 29 March 1947, by which the Council established the Commission on the Status of Women and defined its terms of reference, and 1987/22 of 26 May 1987, by which the Council expanded the mandate of the Commission, "Taking into account agreed conclusions 1995/1, approved by the Council on 28 July 1995, as well as General Assembly resolution 50/203 of 22 December 1995, on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, in which the Assembly invited the Economic and Social Council to review and strengthen the mandate of the Commission, I "Framework for the functioning of the Commission "Recalling that the Assembly, in resolution 50/203, decided that the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with their respective mandates and with Assembly resolution 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and other relevant resolutions, should constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism that would play the primary role in the overall policy-making and follow-up, and in coordinating the implementation and monitoring of the Platform for Action, reaffirming the need for a coordinated follow-up to and implementation of the results of major international conferences in the economic, social and related fields, "Convinced that the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women should be undertaken on the basis of an integrated approach to the advancement of women within the framework of a coordinated follow-up to and implementation of the results of major international conferences in the economic, social and related fields, as well as the overall responsibilities of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, "1. Decides that the Commission on the Status of Women shall have a catalytic role in mainstreaming a gender perspective in policies and programmes; "2. Decides that the empowerment of women, once Coordination, shall inform Council of the progress of inter-agency committee on the advancement and established by the Administrative Committee on the Commission and the Economic and Social its work, for the purpose of system-wide -72-