A/RES/72/234 Women in development stability, structural reform, taxation, investments, including foreign direct investment, and all relevant sectors of the economy; 7. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, and all sectors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, as well as all women and men, to fulfil their respective commitments to intensify their contributions to the implementation and follow-up of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly5 and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 6 as well as the outcomes of their reviews; 8. Recognizes the importance of the full engagement of men and boys as strategic partners, allies, agents and beneficiaries of change for the achie vement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and commits to taking measures to fully engage men and boys in efforts to achieve the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, t he outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasions of the tenth, 1 fifteenth 2 and twentieth 3 anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 2030 Agenda; 9. Also recognizes the mutually reinforcing links between gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and poverty eradication, as well as the need to elaborate and implement, where appropriate, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, participatory, comprehensive gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues in order to ensure an adequate standard of living for women and girls throughout the life cycle, including through social protection systems; 10. Urges States to scale up efforts to accelerate the transition of women from informal employment to formal employment, including access to decent work, improved wages, social protection and quality childcare, and to effectively support the recognition, reduction and equitable redistribution of unpaid care and domestic work by women, including through sustained investments in the care economy; 11. Recognizes that unremunerated work, including unpaid care and domestic work, plays an essential role in improving well-being in the household and in the functioning of the economy as a whole, and acknowledging the need to recognize and consider, where appropriate, policies and programmes that would contribute to reducing the unequal burden of unremunerated work, including unpaid care and domestic work, for which women and girls continue to carry a disproportionately high level of responsibility, and to promote shared responsibility within th e household; 12. Also recognizes the critical role and contribution of agricultural development and of rural women, including smallholders and women farmers, and indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, recognizes the critical role of rural women in agricultural development, and stresses the importance of reviewing agricultural policies and strategies to ensure that women’s critical role in providing food security and nutrition is recognized and addressed as an integral part of both short - and long-term responses to food insecurity, malnutrition, excessive price volatility and food crises in developing countries; 13. Reaffirms the need to end hunger and famine and achieve food security as a priority, and to end all forms of malnutrition, and in this regard acknowledges the important role of the Committee on World Food Security, recalls the Rome 6/15 17-23312