Calls upon Member States, the UN system and other international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, and all sectors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, as well as all women and men, to fully commit themselves and to intensify their contributions to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly; urges the donor community, Member States, international organizations, including the UN, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders to strengthen the focus and impact of development assistance targeting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through gender mainstreaming, the funding of targeted activities and enhanced dialogue between donors and partners, and to also strengthen the mechanisms needed to effectively measure the resources allocated to incorporating gender perspectives in all areas of development assistance; encourages the international community, the UN system, the private sector and civil society to continue to provide the necessary financial resources to assist national Governments in their efforts to meet the development targets and benchmarks agreed upon at the World Summit for Social Development, the 4th World Conference on Women, the International Conference on Population and Development, the Millennium Summit, the International Conference on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, the 23rd and 24th special sessions of the General Assembly and other relevant UN conferences and summits; calls upon the UN system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies, including in the integrated follow-up to UN conferences; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 66th session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national development strategies; also requests the Secretary-General to update the 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development for consideration by the General Assembly at its 69th session, noting that the survey should continue to focus on selective emerging development themes that have an impact on the role of women in the economy at the national, regional and international levels.

Adopted without vote, 66th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.