E/2005/27 E/CN.6/2005/11 4. Urges Member States to eliminate discrimination, ensure equal rights and access and actively enable participation by women and girls in education and training at all levels, including by developing programmes with the aim of equipping women with business, trade, information and communication technology and entrepreneurship skills; 5. Calls on Member States to undertake legislative, administrative and financial measures to create a strong enabling environment for all women entrepreneurs and women participating in the labour market, including: a sound macroeconomic framework; accountable systems for managing public resources; and a business climate that attracts investment and promotes movement from the informal to the formal sector through, inter alia, competitive markets, enforceable contracts, the absence of corruption, regulatory policies that promote public confidence in the market and reducing barriers to international trade within an appropriate time frame; 6. Urges Member States to design and revise laws to ensure that women are accorded full and equal rights to own land and other property, including through inheritance, and to undertake administrative reforms and other necessary measures to give women the right to credit, capital, appropriate technologies and access to markets and information; 7. Calls on Member States to facilitate further development of the financial sector in order to increase women’s access to and control over savings, credit and other financial services through incentives and development of intermediaries that serve the needs of women entrepreneurs on an equal opportunity basis in both rural and urban areas and to fully include women in management, planning and decisionmaking processes; 8. Also calls on Member States to adopt policies and consider allocating resources, as appropriate, that support business and professional organizations, public agencies, non-governmental organizations, cooperatives, revolving loan funds, such as microfinance funds, credit unions and other women’s grass-roots and self-help groups in order to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs in rural and urban areas; 9. Further calls on Member States to enhance access for women to information and communications technology-based economic activities in all sectors, such as small and medium-sized business and home-based employment, information systems and improved technologies, and to further develop telecentres, community access points and business incubators; 10. Calls on Member States to enhance rural women’s income-generating potential, noting the importance of the agricultural sector, particularly in the developing countries, and the importance of greater security of land tenure and property ownership for resource mobilization and environmental management, and to consider special temporary measures to empower women in the rural sector to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of agricultural market liberalization; 11. Urges Member States to eliminate discrimination against women in labour markets, employment practices and the workplace, providing equal access for women to occupational categories and sectors where they are underrepresented, equal opportunities with respect to the right to organize and participate in labour 27