text: efforts to promote the advancement of women, to foster activity to give effect to the'Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, and to progress from advocacy to practical measures, especially in the developing countries. To achieve those goals, the Institute's tasks would grow in importance. 15. Development was INSTRAW's chief concern, however, as had been revealed during the Decade, insufficient awareness of the relationship between development and the advancement of women was still hampering policy and programme formulation. Therefore, more research, training and information were needed; INSTRAW's I ... A/C.3/40/SR.24 English Page 5 (Mrs. Pastizzi-Ferencic) activities accordingly sought to promote women's contribution to development through strategies based on growth, equity, participation and eradication of poverty. 16. In pursuance of General Assembly resolutions 38/104 and 39/122, the Institute had recently convened a high-level meeting of experts to examine and consolidate the report on the role of women in international economic relations. The expert group had commended the Institute's new approach, reflected in the studies underlying the report, and had expressed the hope that INSTRAW would continue the useful work of reviewing world economic trends as they affected women and help guide national and international development policies, especially during the current unprecedented crisis. The study would shortly be finalized and widely disseminated. 17. Immediately after the Nairobi World Conference, INSTRAW, in co-operation with FAO, had convened a meeting at Helsinki to discuss the development of guidelines relating to women and development and to assist in planning the integration of women into all development sectors. Such planning should give prominence to the collective self-reliance of developing countries, which in turn implied popular participation. The related technical co-operation programmes among developing countries, which the entire world community should support, must take into account the role of women in development, as emphasized in the Institute's studies. 
analysis: The text primarily discusses the role of women in development, focusing on their contribution to economic growth, poverty eradication, and participation in international economic relations. It also touches on the need for research, training, and information to promote women's advancement and their integration into development sectors. The text does not explicitly mention natural resources, environment, agriculture, forestry, fishing, industry, transport, communication, health, education, humanitarian aid, or culture, but it does discuss science and technology in the context of research and development.