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consider measures to address the different challenges that may impede women migrant
workers’ access to and management of their economic resources;
(ww) Promote and protect the rights of older women and increase their
resilience by ensuring their equal access to social, legal, digital and financial services,
infrastructure, health-care services, social protection, adequate economic and financial
resources, education, lifelong learning and training, such as vocational training,
protection from violence and abuse, including in digital contexts, and their full,
meaningful and equal participation in decision-making and public life, recognizing
that older women make a substantial contribution to sustainable development efforts;
(xx) Take measures to adopt or develop legislation and policies that provide
women living in rural, remote and maritime areas with access to land and support
women’s cooperatives and agricultural programmes, including for subsistence
agriculture and fisheries; strengthen access to safe drinking water and sanitation and
safe cooking and heating practices to improve their health and nutrition; strengthen
efforts to empower them as important actors in achieving food security and improved
nutrition, fulfilling the right to food, and support their full, equal and meaningful
participation in all areas of economic activity, including commercial and artisanal
fisheries and aquaculture; promote decent working conditions and personal safety,
facilitating sustainable access to and use of critical rural infrastructure, land, water
and natural resources, and local, regional and global markets, and valuing traditional
and ancestral knowledge and contributions of women living in rural, remote and
maritime areas, including, inter alia, Indigenous women and women of African
descent, to the conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial and marine biodiversity,
for present and future generations;
(yy) Dismantle discriminatory financial practices that hinder the financial
independence of women, including requirements mandating women to have a male
co-signer to access financial services, and ensure women ’s legal capacity and equal
rights with men to conclude contracts, regardless of marital status; as well as protect
the rights of widows within inheritance regimes and with regard to the allocation of
marital property;
Implement gender-responsive economic and social policies and strengthen
public institutions
(zz) Strengthen authority, operational and technical capacities and resources
for national mechanisms working on gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls to support gender-responsive approaches and mainstreaming a
gender perspective in ministries and public agencies, including labour, economic and
financial government agencies, and into the design, delivery and evaluation of
financing policies and plans aimed at enhancing access to affordable quality basic
services for all women and girls, particularly women and girls living in poverty;
(aaa) Implement legislation and policies to prevent and combat all forms of
corruption and ensure resources are directed towards pro-poor, quality public
infrastructure, public services and social protection on which women living in poverty
rely;
Expand fiscal space for investments to end poverty for women and girls
(bbb) Expand fiscal space and strengthen institutions towards supporting
economic and societal transformations to end women’s poverty, securing sustainable
development by focusing on reducing systemic risks and structural inequalities, and
urgently take comprehensive and targeted measures to address the root causes and
challenges of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
hunger and all forms of malnutrition affecting women and girls in the light of its
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