- 14 - 4. To call on the organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS to: a. Meet the goal of 2005 and to continue to accelerate their recruitment of qualified women for vacant positions; b. Include the objective of improving gender balance in their human resource management action plans; and c. Encourage specific activities to address gender issues in the workplace, according to individual circumstances of departments and offices, as one of the follow-up actions concerning the gender mainstreaming project undertaken by the General Secretariat. 5. To request the Secretary General to monitor closely the progress made by the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization in meeting the goal of women’s occupying 50 percent of posts at each grade level by the year 2005, to keep the Permanent Council informed with respect to the implementation of this resolution, providing an annual update with relevant statistics from the Department of Human Resource Services and detailed information on the strategies and actions taken to implement this resolution and reach that goal, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth regular session.

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