Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations System

Decides to undertake, during its coordination segment in 2004, a review and appraisal of the system-wide implementation of its agreed conclusions 1997/2 on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the UN system; decides to intensify its efforts to ensure that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of all activities in its work; calls upon the bureaux of its subsidiary bodies to consider how best to facilitate the inclusion of a gender perspective in their work; encourages the collection, analysis and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data; also encourages the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and the Division for the Advancement of Women to maintain their efforts to raise awareness of gender issues across the UN system; requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on follow-up to and implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report recommendations for the review and appraisal of the system-wide implementation of its agreed conclusions 1997/2.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2003, New York, 15, 28, 30 and 31 Jan. 2003; resumed organizational session for 2003, New York, 5 and 25 March, 29 April, 1 and 27 May and 24 June 2002; substantive session of 2003, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 2003; resumed substantive session of 2003, New York, 22 Aug., 31 Oct. and 19 Dec. 2003 - E/2003/99 - p. 77-78 - (ESCOR, 2003, Suppl. no. 1).