(d) Increase enrolment and improve retention rates of girls by allocating appropriate budgetary resources and by enlisting the support of the community and parents through campaigns and flexible school schedules, incentives, scholarships, access programmes for out-of-school girls and other measures; (e) Develop training programmes and materials for teachers and educators, raising awareness about their own role in the educational process, with a view to providing them with effective strategies for gendersensitive teaching; (f) Take actions to ensure that female teachers and professors have the same possibilities and status as male teachers and professors. 280. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations: (a) Provide education and skills training to increase girls’ opportunities for employment and access to decision-making processes; (b) Provide education to increase girls’ knowledge and skills related to the functioning of economic, financial and political systems; (c) Ensure access to appropriate education and skills-training for girl children with disabilities for their full participation in life; (d) Promote the full and equal participation of girls in extracurricular activities, such as sports, drama and cultural activities. Strategic objective L.5. Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition Actions to be taken 281. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations: (a) Provide public information on the removal of discriminatory practices against girls in food allocation, nutrition and access to health services; (b) Sensitize the girl child, parents, teachers and society concerning good general health and nutrition and raise awareness of the health dangers and other problems connected with early pregnancies; (c) Strengthen and reorient health education and health services, particularly primary health care programmes, including sexual and reproductive health, and design quality health programmes that meet the physical and mental needs of girls and that attend to the needs of young, expectant and nursing mothers; (d) Establish peer education and outreach programmes with a view to strengthening individual and collective action to reduce the vulnerability of girls to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, as agreed to in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and as established in the report of that Conference, recognizing the parental roles referred to in paragraph 267 of the present Platform for Action; -115-