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everywhere, particularly in rural areas and local communities and among indigenous
peoples and ethnic minorities.
239. We commit to actively promote the collection, analysis and use of gendersensitive indicators and sex-disaggregated data in policy, programme design and
monitoring frameworks, in accordance with national circumstances and capacities,
in order to deliver on the promise of sustainable development for all.
240. We are committed to equal rights and opportunities for women in political and
economic decision-making and resource allocation and to removing any barriers that
prevent women from being full participants in the economy. We resolve to undertake
legislative and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men to
economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other
forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new
technology.
241. We are committed to promote the equal access of women and girls to
education, basic services, economic opportunities and health-care services,
including addressing women’s sexual and reproductive health, and ensuring
universal access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable modern methods of
family planning. In this regard, we reaffirm our commitment to implement the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development and the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme
of Action.
242. We recognize that gender equality and the effective participation of women are
important for effective action on all aspects of sustainable development.
243. We support the work of the United Nations system, including the United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women),
in promoting and achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in all
aspects of life, including with respect to the linkages between gender equality and
women’s empowerment and the promotion of sustainable development. We support
the work of UN-Women in leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability
of the United Nations system in this regard.
244. We invite donors and international organizations, including the United Nations
system organizations, as well as the international financial institutions, regional
banks and major groups, including the private sector, to integrate fully commitments
and considerations on gender equality and women’s empowerment and to ensure the
participation of women and effective gender mainstreaming in their decisionmaking and full programming cycle. We invite them to play a supportive role in the
efforts of developing countries to integrate fully commitments and considerations on
gender equality and women’s empowerment and ensure the participation of women
and effective gender mainstreaming in their decision-making, programme planning,
budgeting and implementation, in accordance with national legislation, priorities
and capacities.
B.
Sustainable development goals
245. We underscore that the Millennium Development Goals are a useful tool in
focusing achievement of specific development gains as part of a broad development
vision and framework for the development activities of the United Nations, for
national priority-setting and for mobilization of stakeholders and resources towards
common goals. We therefore remain firmly committed to their full and timely
achievement.
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