Last year the Security Council recognized that the Secretary-General's 2009 report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304) was an important contribution to a more effective and coherent international response to post- conflict peacebuilding. The Council also saw the continued engagement of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) as the Secretary-General embarked on the implementation of his ambitious agenda for action. While a number of recommendations made by the Secretary-General in last year's report addressed internal United Nations system mechanisms, there has been a general sense that the PBC is the most suitable platform to generate support for Member States for a shared and coherent United Nations peacebuilding agenda. The PBC therefore has regularly engaged with and been able to contribute ideas and perspectives to the two reports of the Secretary-General before the Council today: S/2010/386, a progress report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict, and S/2010/466, on women's participation in peacebuilding.