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(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.
Promoting global public health for all to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals
73. We commit ourselves to accelerating progress in promoting global public
health for all, including by:
(a) Realizing the values and principles of primary health care, including
equity, solidarity, social justice, universal access to services, multisectoral action,
transparency, accountability, community participation and empowerment, as the
basis for strengthening health systems, and recall, in this regard, the Declaration of
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(b) Strengthening the capacity of national health systems to deliver equitable
and quality health-care services and promoting the widest possible access to healthcare services at the point of use, especially to those in vulnerable situations, through
public policies that remove barriers to access to and use of health-care services,
complemented by the support of international programmes, measures and policies
that align with national priorities;
(c) Providing and strengthening comprehensive and affordable communitybased primary health-care services so as to ensure a continuum from health
promotion and disease prevention to care and rehabilitation, while paying particular
attention to poor people and populations, especially in rural and remote areas, with a
view to extending health protection to all those in need;
(d) Improving the quality and effectiveness of health-care services delivery
by providing integrated health-care services through coordinated approaches at the
country level, the increased use of common platforms and the integration of relevant
services of other sectors, including water and sanitation;
(e) Realizing the international commitment to supporting national efforts in
strengthening health systems that deliver equitable health outcomes as a basis for a
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See Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan,
6–12 September 1978 (Geneva, World Health Organization, 1978).
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