Urges Governments to develop and promote strategies for mainstreaming a gender perspective in the design and implementation of development policies and to ensure women's equal rights with men and their equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources; calls upon Governments to encourage the financial sector to mainstream a gender perspective in its policies and programmes; requests Governments to ensure the full participation of women in decision-making and in policy formulation; urges the international community, the UN system and relevant organizations to give priority to assisting the efforts of developing countries to ensure the full and effective participation of women in deciding and implementing development strategies and integrating national concerns into national programmes; urges developed countries to make concrete efforts to target of 0.7 of gross national product as official development assistance to developing countries; urges multilateral donors, international financial institutions and regional development banks to review and implement policies to support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reach women; calls upon the UN system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies; reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to update the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development for the consideration of the General Assembly at its 59th session; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 60th session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 78th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.