E/2016/27 E/CN.6/2016/22 targets and help them, inter alia, to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women; (dd) Strengthen international cooperation, including the role of North South, South-South and triangular cooperation, bearing in mind that South South cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a complement to, North South cooperation, and the Commission invites all States to enhance SouthSouth and triangular cooperation, focusing on shared development priorities, with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders in government, civil society and the private sector, while noting that national ownership and leadership in this regard are indispensable for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; (ee) Implement macroeconomic, labour and social policies that promote full and productive employment and decent work for all in order to benefit women and promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, as well as to enhance economic efficiency and optimize the contribution of women to economic growth and poverty reduction, promote processes to develop and facilitate the availability of appropriate knowledge and technologies globally, and increase awareness among decision-makers, the private sector and employers of the necessity of women’s economic empowerment and their important contribution; Strengthening women’s leadership and women’s full and equal participation in decision-making in all areas of sustainable development (ff) Take measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation in all fields and in leadership at all levels of decision -making in the public and private sectors and in public, social, economic and political life and in all areas of sustainable development; (gg) Take measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation, including through temporary special mea sures as appropriate, by setting and working to achieve concrete goals, targets and benchmarks, including by providing education and training, and by removing all barriers that directly and indirectly hinder the participation of women, and girls where applicable, in decision-making roles in all sectors and at all levels, such as lack of access to quality and inclusive education and training, as well as such barriers as violence, poverty, unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work, and gender stereotypes; (hh) Take measures to ensure women’s effective participation at all levels and at all stages in peace processes and mediation efforts, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and recovery, as set out in relevant Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security; (ii) Encourages States to recognize shared work and parental responsibilities between women and men in order to promote women ’s increased participation in public life, and take appropriate measures to ach ieve this, including measures to reconcile family, private and professional life; (jj) Promote a safe and enabling environment for all civil society actors so that they can fully contribute to the gender-responsive implementation, 16-05842 17/62