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cooperation with United Nations Country Teams, to render technical assistance and
improved coordination efforts to address recovery needs of women and girls in postconflict situations;
8.
Urges Member States to ensure gender mainstreaming in all post-conflict
peacebuilding and recovery processes and sectors;
9.
Urges Member States, United Nations bodies, donors and civil society to
ensure that women’s empowerment is taken into account during post-conflict needs
assessments and planning, and factored into subsequent funding disbursements and
programme activities, including through developing transparent analysis and
tracking of funds allocated for addressing women’s needs in the post-conflict phase;
10. Encourages Member States in post-conflict situations, in consultation
with civil society, including women’s organizations, to specify in detail women and
girls’ needs and priorities and design concrete strategies, in accordance with their
legal systems, to address those needs and priorities, which cover inter alia support
for greater physical security and better socio-economic conditions, through
education, income generating activities, access to basic services, in particular health
services, including sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and
mental health, gender-responsive law enforcement and access to justice, as well as
enhancing capacity to engage in public decision-making at all levels;
11. Urges Member States, United Nations bodies and civil society, including
non-governmental organizations, to take all feasible measures to ensure women and
girls’ equal access to education in post-conflict situations, given the vital role of
education in the promotion of women’s participation in post-conflict decisionmaking;
12. Calls upon all parties to armed conflicts to respect the civilian and
humanitarian character of refugee camps and settlements, and ensure the protection
of all civilians inhabiting such camps, in particular women and girls, from all forms
of violence, including rape and other sexual violence, and to ensure full, unimpeded
and secure humanitarian access to them;
13. Calls upon all those involved in the planning for disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration to take into account particular needs of women and
girls associated with armed forces and armed groups and their children, and provide
for their full access to these programmes;
14. Encourages the Peacebuilding Commission and Peacebuilding Support
Office to continue to ensure systematic attention to and mobilisation of resources for
advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment as an integral part of postconflict peacebuilding, and to encourage the full participation of women in this
process;
15. Request the Secretary-General, in his agenda for action to improve the
United Nations’ peacebuilding efforts, to take account of the need to improve the
participation of women in political and economic decision-making from the earliest
stages of the peacebuilding process;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure full transparency, cooperation
and coordination of efforts between the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on Children and Armed Conflict and the Special Representative of the
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