Revitalization of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

Decides to engage in the revitalization of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women; requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Board of Trustees of the Institute, to draw up a new structure and working method for the Institute and to report to the General Assembly at its 54th session; urges the Secretary-General: (a) to appoint, as expeditiously as possible, a Director of the Institute, in consultation with the Board of Trustees; (b) to address the administrative anomalies noted in the report of the Joint Inspection Unit; (c) to convene an ad hoc meeting of donors and other interested States Members of the UN to discuss the revitalization of the Institute and its immediate and long-term funding; requests the Director of the Institute, in close consultation with the Board of Trustees, to submit a report to the Council at its substantive session of 2000 on the implementation of the revitalization measures.

Adopted without vote, 45th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 84-85 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).