United Nations Development Fund for Women

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 105 Advancement of women, published in 1998.

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?

18 subjects

Budget Contributions Funds Gender Equality Gender-Based Violence Information Dissemination Political Leaders Political Participation Popular Participation Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Resident Coordinators Resources Mobilization Trust Funds Women Women in Development Women's Advancement Women's Rights

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on the activities of the United Nations Development Fund for Women;³

³A/52/300, annex.

Emphasizes the important work of the Fund in women's empowerment and gender equality within the framework of implementing the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and, in that context, notes the recently adopted strategy and business plan;

Reaffirms the catalytic role of the Fund in further developing and strengthening women's empowerment by enhancing the integration of a gender perspective into all development programmes, in accordance with its mandate;

Stresses the role of the Fund as a development fund in supporting activities related to women's economic and social development in developing countries;

Notes the intention of the Fund further to focus its interventions in support of women's empowerment and gender equality;

Encourages the Fund to continue to contribute to mainstreaming a gender perspective into all development efforts of Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and civil society;

Also encourages the Fund to strengthen its work within the United Nations system at the national level through the resident coordinator system, focusing on strategic interventions and building upon its comparative advantages, in order to promote systemic change, in particular with regard to women's political and economic empowerment;

Endorses the role of the Fund in strengthening women's economic capacity, encouraging women to become key economic players in combating the feminization of poverty and strengthening women's leadership and political empowerment so as to increase their participation in decision-making processes;

Recognizes the important role the Fund plays in promoting the realization of women's civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights so as to facilitate their full participation in society;

Welcomes the operationalization of the Trust Fund in Support of Action to Eliminate Violence against Women, and requests the United Nations Development Fund for Women to disseminate information on best practices and strategic interventions funded under that initiative which should contribute to the eradication of violence against women as an obstacle to development;

Encourages the United Nations Development Fund for Women, in order to fulfil its mandate, to continue to mobilize resources for its activities in a comprehensive manner from all available sources, including the private sector, and urges all Member States to contribute and to consider increasing their contributions to the Fund;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the activities of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, to be submitted in accordance with resolution 39/125.

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