United Nations Development Fund for Women

A/RES/40/104View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 92c Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 1986–2008

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/62/135

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/RES/62/135	United Nations Development Fund for Women	2,087	55%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/137	United Nations Development Fund for Women	1,554	30%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/130	United Nations Development Fund for Women	961	35%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/136	United Nations Development Fund for Women	827	15%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/94	United Nations Development Fund for Women	650	22%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Budget Contributions Inter-Agency Cooperation Report Preparation Technical Cooperation Women in Development Women's Advancement

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Recalling its resolution 39/ l 25 of 14 December 1984, ín which it decided, inter afia, that the activities of the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women

should be continued through establishment of a separate and identifiable entity in autonomous association with the United Nations Development Programme,

Taking note of decision 85/33 of 29 June 1985 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as decision 85/7 of28 June 1985,97 in which the Governing Council requested the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to develop an internal implementation strategy to strengthen the capacity of the Programme to deal with issues of women in development which, calling on the experience of the Fund, would establish verifiable objectives and a timeframe for implementation,

Recognizing the Fund's dual priorities, to serve as a catalyst with the goal of ensuring the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream development activities, as often as possible at pre-investment stages, and to support activities directly benefiting women in line with national and regional priorities,

Considering the innovative and experimental activities of the Fund directed towards strengthening both governmental and non-governmental institutional capacities to ensure access for women to development co-operation resources and their full participation at all levels in the development process,

Stressing that general questions of development and access of women to development resources have, as a common objective, the creation of conditions which will improve the quality of life for all,

Aware of the broad range of linkages of the Fund with Governments, national women's groups, non-governmental organizations and women's research institutes, besides its close co-operation with United Nations development agencies, including the regional commissions,

Reaffirming that the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements ofthe United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, in adopting the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women,51 underlined the necessity of strengthening the role of women in national and international development programmes,

Taking note of the reports of the Consultative Committee on the Fund on its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions, 98

Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General,99 l. Expresses its satisfaction that the establishment of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, in autonomous association with the United Nations Development Programme, was etfected on the agreed target date of I July 1985, in accordance with the arrangements set out in General Assembly resolution 39/125;

Approves the name United Nations Development Fund for Women, with the acronym UNIFEM, as the new name for the Fund, as proposed by the Consultative Committee on the Fund at its seventeenth session, held from 25 to 29 March 1985, in accordance with paragraph 4 of resolution 39/125 andas reflected in the annex to that resolution;

Notes with satisfaction the steps that are being undertaken to implement resolution 39/125, as well as the commitment expressed by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to ensure the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream development activities;

----------------------'--------------------------- Stresses the need for close and continuous working relationships between the Fund, the United Nations Development Programme and those bodies, organs and organizations of the U nited Nations system and other agencies concemed with women's issues and development co-operation;

Expresses its appreciation for the contributions to the Fund made by Govemments, intergovemmental and non-govemmental organizations and individuals, which have a vital role to play in maintaining and increasing the financial viability of the Fund and the etfectiveness of its work;

Urges Governments to continue and, where possible, to increase their contributions to the Fund, and calls upon those Govemments that have not yet done so to consider contributing to the Fund, in order to enable the Fund to give greater support to deserving requests received for technical assistance;

Requests the Consultative Committee on the Fund to continue to monitor the process of implementing the new arrangements for the management of the Fund, as set out in the annex to resolution 39/125;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to submit to the Goveming Council of the Programme an annual report on the operations, management and budget of the Fund, taking into account the ad vice of the Consultative Committee on the Fund;

Also requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-first session, through the Secretary-General, a report on the activities of the Fund, in accordance with resolution 39/ 125.

9S PJl983/7 and Corr. l and 2.

Peac1•, Naimbi. 15-26 Julv 19/i.< (IJnited Nations publication, Sales No. 96 Report of the World Conference to Rev,ew and Appra1se rhe Ach1eve- E.85.IY 10) ments o(the Unired Nations Decadefor Wnmen: Equa/ir_v. Development and

97 See Otficial Records ofthe Econom,c and Social Council. 1985. Supp/e 99 A/401727 and Corr 1 ment No. 11 (E/ 1985/32 and Corr. l ), annex 1 100 A/40/838 98 See A/40/727 and Corr. l, sect. VI.

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