in a variety of business-related and financial management and technical skills to enable women, especially young women, to participate in economic policy-making at those levels; (b) Provide business services, including marketing and trade information, product design and innovation, technology transfer and quality, to women’s business enterprises, including those in export sectors of the economy; (c) Promote technical and commercial links and establish joint ventures among women entrepreneurs at the national, regional and international levels to support community-based initiatives; (d) Strengthen the participation of women, including marginalized women, in production and marketing cooperatives by providing marketing and financial support, especially in rural and remote areas; (e) Promote and strengthen women’s micro-enterprises, new small businesses, cooperative enterprises, expanded markets and other employment opportunities and, where appropriate, facilitate the transition from the informal to the formal sector, in rural and urban areas; (f) Invest capital and develop investment portfolios to finance women’s business enterprises; (g) Give adequate attention to providing technical assistance, advisory services, training and retraining for women connected with the entry to the market economy; (h) Support credit networks and innovative ventures, including traditional savings schemes; (i) Provide networking arrangements for entrepreneurial women, including opportunities for the mentoring of inexperienced women by the more experienced; (j) Encourage community organizations and public authorities to establish loan pools for women entrepreneurs, drawing on successful small-scale cooperative models. 177. By the private sector, including transnational and national corporations: (a) Adopt policies and establish mechanisms to grant contracts on a non-discriminatory basis; (b) Recruit women for leadership, decision-making and management and provide training programmes, all on an equal basis with men; (c) Observe national labour, environment, consumer, health and safety laws, particularly those that affect women. -75-