(d)
64.
Ensure the participation and joint ownership, where possible, of women
clients in the decision-making of institutions providing credit and
financial services.
By multilateral and bilateral development cooperation organizations:
Support, through the provision of capital and/or resources, financial
institutions that serve low-income, small-scale and micro-scale women
entrepreneurs and producers, in both the formal and informal sectors.
65.
By Governments and multilateral financial institutions, as appropriate:
Support institutions that meet performance standards in reaching large
numbers of low-income women and men through capitalization,
refinancing and institutional development support in forms that foster
self-sufficiency.
66.
By international organizations:
Increase funding for programmes and projects designed to promote
sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities for incomegeneration among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty.
Strategic objective A.4.
Develop gender-based methodologies and
conduct research to address the
feminization of poverty
Actions to be taken
67. By Governments, intergovernmental organizations, academic and research
institutions and the private sector:
68.
(a)
Develop conceptual and practical methodologies for incorporating
gender perspectives into all aspects of economic policy-making,
including structural adjustment planning and programmes;
(b)
Apply these methodologies in conducting gender-impact analyses of all
policies and programmes, including structural adjustment programmes,
and disseminate the research findings.
By national and international statistical organizations:
(a)
Collect gender and age-disaggregated data on poverty and all aspects
of economic activity and develop qualitative and quantitative
statistical indicators to facilitate the assessment of economic
performance from a gender perspective;
(b)
Devise suitable statistical means to recognize and make visible the
full extent of the work of women and all their contributions to the
national economy, including their contribution in the unremunerated
and domestic sectors, and examine the relationship of women’s
unremunerated work to the incidence of and their vulnerability to
poverty.
B.
Education and training of women
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