Advancement of women : implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference and the role of operational activities in promoting, in particular, capacity-building and resource mobilization for enhancing the participation of women in development
1998
Details
SymbolE/RES/1998/26
TitleAdvancement of women : implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference and the role of operational activities in promoting, in particular, capacity-building and resource mobilization for enhancing the participation of women in development
Summary
Recognizes the need of the UN system to adopt a coordinated and coherent policy for gender mainstreaming; reiterates that location, seniority level, resources and participation of gender units, gender advisers and focal points in all policy-making and programming processes are crucial for translating the gender mainstreaming mandate into practical reality; urges all funds, programmes and agencies of the UN system to increase their efforts to fully incorporate a gender analysis and perspective into their operational activities; requests the funds, programmes and agencies of the UN system to assist Governments in integrating data disaggregated by sex and age in their country programmes; requests the governing bodies of the UN funds and programmes to monitor the implementation of gender mainstreaming in their programme of work; requests the respective governing bodies to ensure the development of integrated monitoring and evaluation of gender mainstreaming activities to facilitate an early identification of problems and to develop effective ressponses thereto, and requests the UN funds and programmes to evaluate the impact of their gender mainstreaming activities, in cooperation with the national Governments concerned, and to report thereon.
Action note1998-07-28
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 44th meeting
Related resourceE/1998/98
Date2000
Notes
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1998, New York, 22 Jan. and 3 and 6 Feb. 1998; resumed organizational session for 1998, New York, 7 May 1998; substantive session of 1998, New York, 6-31 July and 5 Aug. 1998; resumed substantive session of 1998, New York, 16 Dec. 1998 - E/1998/98 - p. 56-58 - (ESCOR, 1998, Suppl. no. 1).