23 May 1986

19th plenary meeting

Implications of the Forward-looking Strategies for the programme planning system and the programme of future work of the Commission on the Status of Women

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling the mandate of the Commission on the Status of Women, which is to promote the rights, status and advancement of women in all their dimensions,

Recalling further that in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, which were endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 40/108 of 13 December 1985, it is stated that the functions of the Commission should include the monitoring of the implementation of the Strategies to the year 2000, which would necessitate the expansion of the functions of the Commission,

Bearing in mind the need for the Commission to review and appraise the Forward-looking Strategies to the year 2000 in order to ensure their expeditious and universal application,

Aware that since its inception the mandate of the Commission has expanded considerably,

Recalling that the General Assembly, in its resolution 40/108, recommended that immediate measures be taken to ensure that future medium-term plans of the United Nations and the specialized agencies should contain intersectoral presentations of the various programmes dealing with issues of concern to women and that revisions of current plans should be considered in the light of the results of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace,

1. Decides to convene in January 1987 a session of the Commission on the Status of Women of five working days prior to the organizational session of the Economic and Social Council, and that the session shall be held in New York as an exception to the general principle, reaffirmed by the General Assembly in its resolution 40/243 of 18 December 1985, that United Nations bodies shall plan to meet at their established headquarters;

2. Decides also that at that session the Commission shall consider the following:

(a) Revisions to the medium-term plan for the period 1984-1989 intended to fully integrate the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women into both economic and social development programmes, prepared for consideration by the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

(b) Proposals for the preparation by the Secretariat of the medium-term plan for the period 1990-1995;

(c) Programme narrative of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1988-1989, prepared for consideration by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-seventh session;

(d) Final draft of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development, prepared for consideration by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-seventh session and by the Economic and Social Council;

(e) Monitoring, review and appraisal of the Forward-looking Strategies with a view to facilitating their expeditious and universal application, prepared for consideration by the Commission at its thirty-first session;

(f) Proposed guidelines for the long-term programme of work of the Commission to the year 2000;

(g) Proposals for the strengthening of the Commission in discharging its functions, prepared for consideration by the Commission at its thirty-first session;

and invites the Commission to concentrate its deliberations on matters which it considers to be priority issues;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission, well in advance of the 1987 session, concise reports, including those identified in the provisional agenda for the 1987 session and relevant documentation on the matters referred to in paragraph 2 above;

4. Approves the provisional agenda and documentation for the 1987 session of the Commission on the Status of Women contained in the annex to the present resolution.

Annex PROVISIONAL AGENDA AND DOCUMENTATION FOR THE 1987 SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

1. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

3. Implications of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women for programme planning in the United Nations system.

Documentation

Revisions to chapters 10 to 24 of the medium-term plan for the period 1984-1989 with a view to integrating the Forward-looking Strategies fully into both economic and social development programmes

Report of the Secretary-General providing guidance for integrating the Forward-looking Strategies into the medium-term plan for the period 1990-1995

Relevant sections of the programme narrative of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1988-1989

Report of the Secretary-General containing the draft of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development

Report of the Secretary-General on measures for the integration of the needs and concerns of women in planning and programme activities of the United Nations system

4. Monitoring and review and appraisal of the implementation of the Forward-looking Strategies.

Documentation

Note by the Secretary-General on a reporting system for periodic review and appraisal of progress in the advancement of women at national, regional and international levels

5. Strengthening the Commission on the Status of Women.

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on alternative measures to strengthen the Commission on the Status of Women

6. Programme of future work and provisional agenda for the next session.

Documentation

Report by the Secretary-General containing guidelines for the long-term programme of work of the Commission to the year 2000

7. Adoption of the report of the Commission.