Commends the focus by the Fund on strategic programmes in its four core areas of work, namely, reducing feminized poverty, ending violence against women, halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and achieving gender equality; calls upon all organizations of the UN system, within their mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender equality in their country programmes; urges the UN development system to avail itself of the technical and coordination experience of the Fund on gender issues while undertaking efforts to implement gender mainstreaming; urges the Fund to increase its efforts and enhance its capacity to support a coordinated approach of the UN system to strengthen gender justice in peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery and reconstruction; emphasizes the importance of the Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women; recognizes with appreciation the increases in core contributions and, particularly, non-core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations and invites them to continue to contribute and to consider increasing their financial contributions, and urges others that have not yet done so to consider contributing to the Fund to enable it to reach the targets for core resources in its multi-year funding framework.

Adopted without vote, 64th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.