UN Security Council
2020

willingness to consider options for providing further support to ECOMIB, and urges bilateral, regional and international partners to consider providing financial assistance to support the continued deployment of ECOMIB; 17. Welcomes the continued engagement of the PBC with the Bissau-Guinean authorities and other relevant stakeholders in Guinea-Bissau, encourages the PBC to follow closely and support the UNIOGBIS transition process and the long-term peacebuilding efforts in Guinea-Bissau, and welcomes regular briefings by the PBC to the Security Council on its work in support of Guinea-Bissau; 18. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming gender and supporting the empowerment of women to achieve political and socio-economic stability in Guinea-Bissau and to build a lasting and sustainable peace, requests the Secretary-General to ensure UNIOGBIS’s transition process is consistently gender-responsive, and that the United Nations configuration in Bissau has the requisite resources to continue providing the relevant expertise following UNIOGBIS closure and, in this regard, calls on donors to provide adequate financial contributions in support of the gender peacebuilding priorities in Guinea-Bissau; 19. Expresses the Security Council’s readiness to take appropriate measures in