Increasing the number of women in senior management posts in the United Nations system

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Each body of the UN system should review the number of women in senior policy-level and decision-making posts and, where appropriate, adopt programmes to increase that number, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1991/17 on the improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat.

1. Strengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmes

1. Advancing environmentally sound technology and management systems

1. Mismanagement