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technical, managerial and entrepreneurial training, and to affordable and adequate
public and social services;
(d) Ensuring that women benefit from policy measures to generate full and
productive employment and decent work for all, in accordance with commitments
by States to International Labour Organization conventions, including policy
measures to promote, inter alia, access of women and girls, including mothers and
pregnant women, to formal and non-formal education, equal skills development and
employment opportunities, and closing wage gaps between women and men,
recognizing women’s unpaid work, including care work;
(e) Investing in infrastructure and labour-saving technologies, especially in
rural areas, benefiting women and girls by reducing their burden of domestic
activities, affording the opportunity for girls to attend school and women to engage
in self-employment or participate in the labour market;
(f) Taking action to improve the numbers and active participation of women
in all political and economic decision-making processes, including by investing in
women’s leadership in local decision-making structures and processes, encouraging
appropriate legislative action and creating an even playing field for men and women
in political and Government institutions, and intensifying our efforts for the equal
participation of women and men as key stakeholders at all levels in the prevention
and resolution of conflicts and peacebuilding processes;
(g) Strengthening comprehensive national laws and policies as well as
programmes to enhance accountability and raise awareness, prevent and combat all
forms of violence against women and girls everywhere, which undermine their full
enjoyment of all human rights, and to ensure that women have access to justice and
protection, and that all perpetrators of such violence are duly investigated,
prosecuted and punished in order to end impunity, in conformity with national
legislation, international humanitarian law and international human rights law;
(h) Improving national-level capacity to monitor and report on progress,
gaps and opportunities through better generation and use of sex- and agedisaggregated data, including with the support of the international community;
(i) Enhancing the impact of development assistance in advancing gender
equality and empowerment of women and girls through targeted activities including
capacity-building, as well as through gender mainstreaming and enhanced dialogue
between donors and partners, involving, as appropriate, civil society and the private
sector, with a view to ensuring adequate funding;
(j) Facilitating access by women to affordable microfinance, in particular
microcredit, which can contribute to poverty eradication, gender equality and the
empowerment of women;
(k) Promoting and protecting women’s equal access to adequate housing,
property and land, including rights to inheritance, and enabling them to secure
access to credit through appropriate constitutional, legislative and administrative
measures;
(l) Promoting women’s economic empowerment and ensuring women’s
access to productive resources. In this regard, strengthening gender responsive
public management, in order to ensure gender equality in resource allocation,
capacity development and benefit sharing in all sectors, including in central and
local level governments.
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