Reaffirms the specific mandate of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women; requests the Institute to strengthen its training and research activities: (a) to intensify its training activities on the basis of lessons learned and replicate best practices and to continue to implement innovative methods of work; (b) to further coordinate its activities and to develop its programme of work in collaboration with all relevant UN bodies and to strengthen its cooperation with Governments and national mechanisms of gender equality; (c) to increase its cooperation with the Commission on the Status of Women and with other subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council; stresses the critical importance of voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the UN Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women to enable it to carry out its mandate; requests the Institute to continue its efforts so that current and potential donors devote a greater interest to the core budget and consider commitments to multi-year funding; invites States to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund; decides to continue considering the above issues and requests the Secretary-General to present a report on the implementation of the present resolution during its substantive session of 2008.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2007, New York, 17 and 22 Jan., 6, 9 and 15 Feb., 2 and 15 Mar. and 16 Apr. 2007; resumed organizational session for 2007, New York, 25 and 26 Apr. and 24 May 2007, substantive session of 2007, Geneva, 2-27 July 2007, resumed substantive session of 2007, New York, 4 and 17 Oct. 2007 - E/2007/99 - p. 96-97 - (ESCOR, 2007, Suppl. no. 1).