23 July l986

38th plenary meeting

System-wide medium-term plan for women and development and system-wide co-ordination of the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling its resolution 1985/46 of 31 May 1985, in which it requested the Secretary-General to take the initiative in formulating a system-wide medium-term plan for women and development,

Bearing in mind paragraphs 311, 338 and 339 of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, outlining measures to improve system-wide co-ordination of activities for the advancement of women and as a means of implementing the Strategies,

Noting General Assembly resolution 40/108 of 13 December 1985, in which the Assembly endorsed the Forward-looking Strategies,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the proposed framework of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development,

1. Takes note of the proposed framework of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development;

2. Emphasizes the importance for the comprehensive implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women of programme 2, on access to productive resources, income and employment, and programme 3, on access to services;

3. Decides that the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development should pay particular attention to programme 2, which includes activities of the highest priority for integrating women into economic development, and to programme 3;

4. Recommends 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, particularly those relating to the access of women to productive resources, income and employment and the access of women to services;

5. Recommends also that priority areas addressed in programmes 2 and 3 of the system-wide medium-term plan be reflected in technical co-operation activities carried out for the benefit of women;

6. Emphasizes that the system-wide medium-term plan should be formulated so as to permit verification and monitoring of the progress made towards the achievement of its objectives;

7. Further emphasizes the importance of the plan of action formulated by the United Nations Development Programme in consultation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women for the more active and deliberate involvement of women in development through technical co-operation;

8. Requests the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination to undertake in 1989 a cross-organizational programme analysis in order to review systematically the activities for and resources allocated to the advancement of women;

9. Decides that the Commission on the Status of Women shall review the final draft of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development before its consideration by the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1987.