Women in development
A/RES/72/234
work of UN-Women with United Nations country teams in assisting Member States,
at their request, in the integration of 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;
61. Calls upon organizations of the United Nations development system,
within their organizational mandates, to further impro ve 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 71/243;
62. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within
their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no
country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;
63. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and
decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session, under the
item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub-item
entitled “Women in development”.
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20 December 2017
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