Women in development
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the General Assembly, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
and other relevant United Nations conferences and summits;
48. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions,
within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and
implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of
resources reaches women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
49. 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, investment frameworks
and sector-wide programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and
targets in this domain in accordance with national development strategies, welcomes
the work of UN-Women with United Nations country teams in assisting Member
States, at their request, in integrating a gender perspective into national
development policies and strategies, in accordance with their national priorities, and
stresses its important role in leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability
of the United Nations system so as to ensure that the commitment to gender equality
and gender mainstreaming translates into effective action throughout the world;
50. Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations development system,
within their organizational intergovernmentally agreed mandates, to implement their
institutional accountability mechanisms, to deliver on results on gender equality and
to report on gender-sensitive indicators in their strategic frameworks;
51. Recalls Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/18 of 24 July
2013, in which the Council decided that at its fifty-ninth session, in 2015, the
Commission on the Status of Women would undertake a review and appraisal of the
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome
of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including current
challenges that affect the implementation of the Platform for Action and the
achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women, as well as
opportunities for strengthening gender equality and the empowerment of women in
the post-2015 development agenda through the integration of a gender perspective;
52. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventieth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the
present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national
development strategies;
53. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth session,
under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the
sub-item entitled “Women in development”.
71st plenary meeting
20 December 2013
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