8 July 1987

36th 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,

Reaffirming the measures to promote institutional co-ordination contained in chapter V of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,

Recognizing the need to systematize intersecretariat arrangements for the co-ordination of administrative, operational and programme activities having a bearing on the status of women,

Welcoming the significant contribution made by the formulation of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development for the period 1990-1995 and emphasizing the need to focus on activities at the regional and international levels,

Having considered part one of the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination on its twenty-seventh session,

1. Requests the Secretary-General and the other members of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, when translating the relevant provisions of the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development for the period 1990-1995 into the respective planning and programming documents of the United Nations and the organizations of the United Nations system, to take into account the views expressed by delegations at the second regular session of 1987 of the Council and at the twenty-seventh session of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination;

2. Urges the five regional commissions to implement the system-wide medium-term plan for women and development and to make every effort to develop fully its regional dimensions;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the plan to the attention of all intergovernmental bodies of the United Nations working in the field of economic development;

4. Requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to include a section on women and development in his annual report on operational activities for development of the United Nations system;

5. Recommends the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination to make appropriate arrangements for implementing the system-wide medium-term plan, including, as necessary, the designation of lead agencies and arrangements for ad hoc meetings of focal points on women, and for monitoring the implementation of the plan, including the assignment of that responsibility to a subsidiary body, and to report thereon to the Council through the Commission on the Status of Women;

6. Requests the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination to initiate the preparation of a cross-organizational programme analysis on matters related to the advancement of women to be examined in 1989, in order to provide baseline data for verifying and monitoring the extent to which progress has been made towards the achievement of the objectives of the system-wide medium-term plan, and, in that context, requests the Secretary-General to transmit a report on the cross-organizational programme analysis to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-second session;

7. Invites the governing bodies of the organizations of the United Nations system to give due consideration to the system-wide medium-term plan, particularly as it affects their own work programmes, and to make provision for its implementation in their medium-term plans, or equivalent documents, and programme budgets;

8. Requests all organizations concerned to report ot the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the measures taken or proposed to implement the system-wide medium-term plan.