- 73 - particular attention to the suggestions and recommendations contained therein. The Committee noted the emphasis placed in the report on the close relationship that exists between economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development, the realization of the latter being greatly conditioned by the level of realization of the rights set forth in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 374. The Committee, conscious of the role conferred on it by the Economic and Social Council in monitoring the implementation of the provisions of the Covenant by, at present, 133 States parties and in response to the recommendations formulated in the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development, adopted the following recommendations for consideration by the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-second session with a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development: (a) Institutional aspect (monitoring) 375. The Committee, conscious of the interrelationship that exists between the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Declaration on the Right to Development, as highlighted in the recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development, considers that economic, social and cultural rights, on the one hand, and the right to development, on the other hand, are mutually reinforcing concepts; that the realization of the former results in an effective realization of the latter, and vice versa. Accordingly, the Committee considers that monitoring of the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development should be carried out together with that of the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Committee expresses its willingness in principle to assume, at the appropriate moment, the responsibility of monitoring the implementation by Member States of the United Nations of the Declaration on the Right to Development, in addition to its current mandate as defined by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1985/17. (b) Functional aspect 376. Should the Committee be entrusted with monitoring the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, it will report, through the Commission on Human Rights, to the Economic and Social Council on progress made in the realization, at the national level, of the Declaration on the Right to Development. Gender perspective in the work of the Committee 377. Within the framework of its discussion of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (A/CONF.177/20, chap. I), adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Committee considered the following documents: report of an Expert Group meeting on the development of guidelines on the integration of gender perspectives into United Nations human rights activities and programmes (E/CN.4/1996/105); a paper prepared by the Division for the Advancement of Women (Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, New York) on the incorporation of a gender perspective into the work of the United Nations human rights regime; report of the sixth meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies (A/50/505); gender-specific