policies, in a transparent manner so as to ensure,
where appropriate, that national budget policies
and priorities as well as resource allocations support the eradication of poverty, the empowerment
of women and the achievement of gender equality
goals, and ensure women’s full participation in all
such processes;
(e) Evaluate the relationship between the empowerment
of women and poverty eradication in different stages
of women’s life cycle and analyse the intersection of
gender and other factors, reflect the implications for
policies and programmes and compile and widely
disseminate good practices and lessons learned;
(f) Strengthen efforts to mainstream gender perspec-
tives and the empowerment of women through
the whole policy process, from the identification to
the formulation, implementation, evaluation and
follow-up of macroeconomic policies, as well as economic and social policy formulation and implementation and poverty eradication policies, programmes,
development frameworks and strategies;
(m) Review and reform, where appropriate, fiscal
policies, particularly taxation policies, to ensure
equality between women and men in this regard;
(n) Strengthen the provision of and ensure access to
adequate, affordable and accessible public and
social services to meet the needs of all women, in
particular women living in poverty;
(g) Establish or improve gender-specific analysis of
(o) Design, implement and promote family friendly
poverty and strengthen institutional capacities at
all levels, including relevant national machineries,
in order to undertake gender analysis in poverty
eradication initiatives by, inter alia, the allocation of
sufficient resources;
policies and services, including affordable, accessible and quality care services for children and other
dependants, parental and other leave schemes and
campaigns to sensitize public opinion and other relevant actors on equal sharing of employment and
family responsibilities between women and men;
(h) Improve the collection, compilation and dissem-
ination of timely, reliable, comparable data disaggregated by sex and age and further develop
quantitative and qualitative indicators, including
social indicators, by national and international
statistical organizations so as to increase capacity
to measure, assess and analyse poverty among
women and men, including at the household level,
and make progress in the empowerment of women
throughout their life cycle;
(p) Improve and develop physical and mental health
programmes and services, including preventive health
care, for women, particularly women living in poverty;
(q) Strengthen policies and programmes at the
national level to provide equal access to health care
services for all women and girls, particularly for
those living in poverty;
(i) Encourage the inclusion of data on women’s equal
(r) Create and ensure equal access to all types of
access to land and other property in United Nations
reports;
permanent and sustainable social protection/social
security systems at all stages throughout women’s
life cycle, taking into account the specific needs of
all women living in poverty;
(j) Identify and take all appropriate measures to
address obstacles to the empowerment of women
and to their full enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms throughout the life cycle
with the view to eradicate poverty;
(s) Ensure full and equal access at all levels to formal
and non-formal education and training for women
and girls, including pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, as key to their empowerment by, inter
alia, the reallocation of resources, as necessary;
(k) Take the strongest measures to eliminate all forms of
discrimination and violence against women and girls;
(t) Take urgent and effective measures in accordance
(l) Incorporate a gender perspective into the design,
with international law with a view to alleviating
negative impact of economic sanctions on women
and children;
development, adoption and execution of all budgetary processes, as well as economic and financial
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