(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 -25-