Review of Economic and Social Council agreed conclusions 1997/2 on mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations System

Recommends that the General Assembly encourage its committees and other intergovernmental bodies to take further measures to integrate systematically gender perspectives into all areas of their work; calls upon its functional commission to take further measures to incorporate recommendations on their areas of work provided by the Commission on the Status of Women; requests all entities of the UN System to enhance effectiveness of gender specialist resources, gender focal points and gender theme groups by establishing clear mandates; requests all entities of the UN System fully to incorporate gender perspectives in their programmes and operational activities; recommends that all entities of the UN System continue to promote cooperation, coordination, sharing of methodologies and good practices; decides to undertake a further review and appraisal of the implementation of its agreed conclusions 1997/2 a future session before 2010.

Adopted without vote, 27th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2004, New York, 21 Jan., 4-6, 13 and 27 Feb. and 3 May 2004; resumed organizational session for 2004, New York, 4 May and 3 and 15 June 2004; substantive session of 2004, New York, 28 June-23 July 2004; resumed substantive session of 2004, New York, 16 Sept. and 5 and 11 Nov. 2004 - E/2004/99 - p. 20-21 - (ESCOR, 2004, Suppl. no. 1).