Effective Mobilization and Integration of Women in Development

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84iEffective mobilization and integration of women in development, published in 1986.

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5 versions · 1979–1988

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7 topics

Development Medium-Term Plan Programme Implementation Reporting Procedures Social Surveys Women Women in Development

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Invites the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-first session to make specific action-oriented recommendations based on the world survey on the role of women in development as a part of the overall implemen .. tation of and follow-up to the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, which should be for action at the national and international levels, including co-operation among developing countries, within an economic context, and should address sectoral and crosssectoral problems identified in the survey, and requests that the report of the Commission be made available, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1986, to the General Assembly at its forty-second session under the sub-item entitled "Effective mobilization and integration of women in economic development";

Requests the Secretary-General to take those recommendations into account when formulating the systemwide medium-term plan for women and development 101 and to invite the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Labour Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Training and Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, to take into account the implications of the world survey when preparing their contributions to that plan;

Also requests the Secretary-General to update the survey on the role of women in development on a regular basis, focusing on selected emerging development issues that have an impact on the role of women in the economy at the local, national, regional and international levels;

Decides that the first update of the survey should be submitted to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, in 1989;

Invites the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-first session to make a recommendation on future updates of the survey after 1989, bearing in mind the need for effective co-ordination with the follow-up activities of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace;

Also invites the Commission on the Status of Women to suggest terms of reference for the first update of the survey, which should contain improved data and information on the role of women in development, including, inter alia, their role in the informal sector of the economy;

Urges the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system to contribute to thepreparation of the first update of the survey;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its forty-second session, a progress report on the preparation of the first regular update of the survey, including preliminary views on its scope and content, so that the Commission on the Status of Women, at its thirty-second session, can take that report into account, together with the comments on the subject made by delrgations in the General Assembly;

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Also requests the Secretary-General to utilize the input provided by the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-second session and by the Economic and Social Council m 1 988 for the preparation of the first update of the survey.

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