United Nations Development Fund for Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1997
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SymbolA/RES/52/94
TitleUnited Nations Development Fund for Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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UN Development Fund for Women
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Summary
Emphasizes the important work of the UN Development Fund for Women in women's empowerment and gender equality within the framework of implementing the Platform for Action of the 4th World Conference on Women, and, in that context, notes the recently adopted strategy and business plan; reaffirms the catalytic role of the Fund in further developing and strengthening women's empowerment by enhancing the integration of a gender perspective into all development programmes, in accordance with its mandate; stresses the role of the Fund as a development fund in supporting activities related to women's economic and social development in developing countries; encourages the Fund to continue to contribute to mainstreaming a gender perspective into all development efforts of Governments, organization of the UN system and civil society; also encourages the Fund to strengthen its work within the UN system at the national level through the resident coordinator system, focusing on strategic interventions and building upon its comparative advantages, in order to promote systemic change, in particular with regard to women's political and economic empowerment; endorses the role of the Fund in strengthening women's economic capacity, encouraging women to become key economic players in combating the feminization of poverty and strengthening women's leadership and political empowerment so as to increase their participation in decision-making process; encourages the UN Development Fund for Women to continue to mobilize resources for its activities in a comprehensive manner from all available sources, and urges all Member States to contribute and to consider increasing their contributions to the Fund.
Action note1997-12-12
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 70th meeting
Meeting record
A/52/PV.70
Agenda information
A/52/251 105 Advancement of women. WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
Date[New York] : UN, 6 Feb. 1998.
Description
2 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 70th plenary meeting, 12 Dec. 1997.