A/RES/64/217 upon their request, with respect to establishing, developing and strengthening their databases and information systems; 41. Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, and their traditional knowledge, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty; 42. Calls upon all organizations of the United Nations system, within their organizational mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender equality in their country programmes, planning instruments and sector-wide programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this domain in accordance with national development strategies; 43. Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations development system, within their organizational mandates, to further improve their institutional accountability mechanisms and to include intergovernmentally agreed genderequality results and gender-sensitive indicators in their strategic frameworks; 44. Calls upon the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies, including in the integrated follow-up to United Nations conferences, in accordance with agreed conclusions 1997/2 on gender mainstreaming adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1997; 15 14F 45. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national development strategies; 46. Also requests the Secretary-General to update the 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 16 for consideration by the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, noting that the survey should continue to focus on selective emerging development themes that have an impact on the role of women in the economy at the national, regional and international levels; 15F 47. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the sub-item entitled “Women in development”. 66th plenary meeting 21 December 2009 _______________ 15 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 3 and addendum (A/52/3/Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1), chap. IV, sect. A, para. 4. 16 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.09.IV.7. 9