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follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda in line with the relevant provisions
of the Agenda;
(kk) Increase resources and support for grass-roots, local, national,
regional and global women’s and civil society organizations to advance and
promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and the human
rights of women and girls;
Strengthening gender-responsive data collection, follow-up and
review processes
(ll) Include a gender-responsive approach in the national follow-up to
and review of the 2030 Agenda, taking into account, where applicable, the
agreed global indicator framework, 12 and strengthen national statistical
capacity, including by enhancing technical and financial assistance to
developing countries, to systematically design, collect and ensure access to
high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age and income
and other characteristics relevant in national contexts;
(mm) Develop and enhance standards and methodologies at the national
and international levels to improve the collection, analysis and dissemination
of gender statistics on, inter alia, poverty, income distribution within
households, unpaid care work, women’s access to, control and ownership of
assets and productive resources, participation at all levels of decision -making
and violence against women, to measure progress for women and girls with
regard to sustainable development in the context of the 2030 Agenda;
(nn) Enhance technical and financial collaboration between countries,
with the support of United Nations entities, within their mandates, and the
participation of civil society organizations as appropriate, with the aim of
collecting data and statistics to follow up on and review the implementation of
the 2030 Agenda from a gender equality perspective.
Enhancing national institutional arrangements
24. The Commission calls upon Governments to strengthen the authority and
capacity, including through funding where possible, of national mechanisms
for promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, at all
levels, including to support the mainstreaming of a gender perspective across
all policies and programmes in all sectors of government in the context of the
2030 Agenda, and promote the visibility of and support for these mechanisms.
25. The Commission also calls upon Governments to enhance coherence and
coordination of national mechanisms for promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, with relevant government agencies and
other stakeholders, where appropriate, to ensure that national planning,
decision-making, policy formulation and implementation, budgeting processes
and institutional structures contribute to the achievement of gender equality
and the empowerment of all women and girls.
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