Effective Mobilization and Integration of Women in Development

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 61m Effective mobilization and integration of women in development, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1979–1988

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/42/178

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1988	A/RES/42/178	Effective mobilization and integration of women in development	652	12%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/204	Effective mobilization and integration of women in development	646	14%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/78	Effective mobilization and integration of women in development	1,642	9%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/204	Effective mobilization and integration of women in development	235	27%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/200	Effective mobilization and integration of women in development	639	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Women in Development

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

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Noting the recommendation of the Commission on Human Settlements at its third session 141 and that of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its eighth session '" 4 that such meetings should be held annually,

Approves the holding of joint meetings of the bureaux of the Commission on Human Settlements and of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme with the two Executive Directors once a year, rather than on a biannual basis.

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Invites the Secretary-General to arrange, in consultation with the members of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to participate in all aspects of the work of that Committee and its subsidiary machinery.

'" Ibid., annex I, resolution 3/6.

'" Ibid., Supplement No. 25 (A/35/25), annex I, decision 8/5.

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Expresses its appreciation to those Governments that have so far made financial contributions for the activities of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);

Urgently appeals to all States and appropriate financial institutions ·to respond favourably to the appeal of the Commission on Human Settlements for increased financial support for the work programme of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements by making or increasing their voluntary contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation.

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Effective mobilization and integration of women in development

Welcomes the inclusion in the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade of special provisions relating to the integration of women in over-all development, in particular the need for all countries to pursue the objective of securing women's equal participation both as agents and as beneficiaries in all sectors and at all levels of the development process; 149 2.

Endorses the resolution on women and industrialization adopted by the Third General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as an important contribution towards the advancement of women and requests the Secretary- General to transmit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session the report of the Executive Director of that organization referred to in the resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the review and appraisal of progress made in implementing the recommendations related to the mobilization of women in development of the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women's Year 150 and the Programme of Action for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade for Women 151 is made part of the review and appraisal of progress made in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade;

Calls upon all appropriate organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to give sustained attention to the integration of women in the formulation, design and implementation of development projects and programmes, in the context of the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade;

Calls upon all Governments, regional commissions and other organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to make every effort to implement the recommendations and resolutions of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women related to the integration of women in the development process;

Urges the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy __ an.9 the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, as well as the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system concerned with the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 35 / 18 of I 0 November 1980, to take fully into account the needs and concerns of women;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations, to continue the efforts to assess the effects of the present international economic structures on the economic and social situation of women in areas such as trade, technology transfer, agriculture and food prices, and industrialization;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and with the specialized agencies and other bodies concerned within the United Nations system, to develop specific actionoriented research and training programmes in this regard, in particular in the field of technical co-operation for development;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session on the implementation of paragraph I of resolution 34/204 on the role of the relevant United Nations agencies and organizations in assisting Governments in the implementation of the provisions on the integration of women in rural development:

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Further requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive and detailed outline for an interdisciplinary and multisectoral world survey on the role of women in over-all development, taking into account the relevant recommendations of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, as well as the results of the relevant United Nations conferences on development issues, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session.

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'" See ID/CONF.4/22 and Corr. I, chap. IV, sect. B.

149 See resolution 35 /56 above. annex, para. 51.

"" See Report of the World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City, 19 June-2 July 1975 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.76.IV. l ), chap. II, sect. A.

'" See Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace. Copenhagen. 14 to 30 July 1980 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.80.IV.3 and corrigendum), chap. I, sect. A.

"' Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1980. Supplement No. II (E/1980/41).

1" See resolution 35 Sh above. annex, sect. II. para. 50.

" Ibid .. sect. 11.

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