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11. Recognizes the technical expertise of the Fund and other gender
specialist resources of the United Nations system, and calls upon the United Nations
development system to utilize this technical expertise, on the basis of their
mandates, to support enhanced programming and policies on gender equality and the
empowerment of women at all levels, while undertaking efforts to implement gender
mainstreaming internally;
12. Encourages Member States and United Nations organizations to further
explore with the Fund possible innovative representational arrangements, including
through the use of seconded staff, project offices and other means;
13. Notes the activities undertaken by the Fund, in follow-up to resolution
60/137, to address the impact of armed conflict on women, including sexual and all
other forms of violence against women and girls, to strengthen gender justice and to
support the promotion of gender equality and full and effective participation of
women in peace processes, peacebuilding, post-conflict recovery and
reconstruction, and urges the Fund to increase its efforts and enhance its support to a
coordinated approach of the United Nations system, including cooperation, as
appropriate, with Member States, relevant United Nations entities, regional
organizations and other United Nations partners in these fields;
14. Emphasizes the importance of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support
of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, established by General Assembly
resolution 50/166 of 22 December 1995, as an inter-agency mechanism to respond
to the deep concern regarding the persistence of violence and crimes against women
in all parts of the world expressed by the Assembly, which has urged the relevant
United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and specialized agencies to
enhance the coordination of and intensify support to States in their efforts to
eliminate all forms of violence against women, and encourages all Governments,
non-governmental organizations and the public and private sectors to consider
contributing or increasing contributions to the Trust Fund;
15. Calls upon the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality to
intensify its consideration of ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the
Trust Fund as a system-wide funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all
forms of violence against women and girls;
16. Encourages the Fund to continue to support the gender-equality and
women’s empowerment goals and targets of the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth special session, 11
and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS adopted at the High-level Meeting on
HIV/AIDS of the sixtieth session of the Assembly, 12 by working closely with
women who are affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS to develop their capacity to
influence programmes and policies, building on its partnerships within the United
Nations system, in particular with the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS);
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17. Welcomes the strengthened partnership with the United Nations
Development Programme to facilitate the participation of the Fund in the Joint
Programme in order to avail its co-sponsors of the expertise of the Fund with
respect to the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS;
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Resolution 60/262, annex.