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programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this domain
in accordance with national development strategies, and 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;
42. 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;
43. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the
present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national
development strategies;
44. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session,
under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the
sub-item entitled “Women in development”.
91st plenary meeting
22 December 2011
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