Women in development
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55. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions,
within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review a nd
implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of
resources reach women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
56. 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, including sustainable 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;
57. Calls upon organizations of the United Nations development system,
within their organizational mandates, to further improve their institutional
accountability mechanisms and to include intergovernmentally agreed gender
equality results and gender-sensitive indicators in their strategic frameworks, as set
out in its resolution 67/226;
58. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no country is left
behind in the implementation of the present resolution;
59. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and
decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the
item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub -item
entitled “Women in development”, unless otherwise agreed in the discussions on the
revitalization of the Second Committee.
81st plenary meeting
22 December 2015
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