System-wide co-ordination of activities to advance the status of women and to integrate women in development.

Considers that the central substantive co-ordinating role of the Commission on the Status of Women in advancing the status of women and integrating women in development has 3 distinct aspects: (a) Intergovernmental co-operation, which relates to action taken by the UN central, regional and sectoral intergovernmental bodies to achieve a coherent and complementary approach to implementing the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women within the UN; (b) Inter-agency coordination, which relates to measures taken by organizations of the UN system to co-ordinate the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies; (c) Legislative linkage, which relates to action taken by the Commission on the Status of Women to link the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies to all relevant UN intergovernmental decisions and other international strategies and plans and programmes of action.

Adopted without vote, 39th meeting

Adopted at the 39th plenary meeting, 27 July 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1988, Geneva, 6-29 July 1988. - E/1988/INF/8. - 11 Aug. 1988. - p. 27-30. - Issued in ESCOR, 1988, Suppl. no. 1A.