them, as appropriate, to promote more equitable distribution of
productive assets, wealth, opportunities, income and services;
(c)
Pursue and implement sound and stable macroeconomic and sectoral
policies that are designed and monitored with the full and equal
participation of women, encourage broad-based sustained economic
growth, address the structural causes of poverty and are geared
towards eradicating poverty and reducing gender-based inequality
within the overall framework of achieving people-centred sustainable
development;
(d)
Restructure and target the allocation of public expenditures to
promote women’s economic opportunities and equal access to productive
resources and to address the basic social, educational and health
needs of women, particularly those living in poverty;
(e)
Develop agricultural and fishing sectors, where and as necessary, in
order to ensure, as appropriate, household and national food security
and food self-sufficiency, by allocating the necessary financial,
technical and human resources;
(f)
Develop policies and programmes to promote equitable distribution of
food within the household;
(g)
Provide adequate safety nets and strengthen State-based and communitybased support systems, as an integral part of social policy, in order
to enable women living in poverty to withstand adverse economic
environments and preserve their livelihood, assets and revenues in
times of crisis;
(h)
Generate economic policies that have a positive impact on the
employment and income of women workers in both the formal and informal
sectors and adopt specific measures to address women’s unemployment,
in particular their long-term unemployment;
(i)
Formulate and implement, when necessary, specific economic, social,
agricultural and related policies in support of female-headed
households;
(j)
Develop and implement anti-poverty programmes, including employment
schemes, that improve access to food for women living in poverty,
including through the use of appropriate pricing and distribution
mechanisms;
(k)
Ensure the full realization of the human rights of all women migrants,
including women migrant workers, and their protection against violence
and exploitation; introduce measures for the empowerment of documented
women migrants, including women migrant workers; facilitate the
productive employment of documented migrant women through greater
recognition of their skills, foreign education and credentials, and
facilitate their full integration into the labour force;
(l)
Introduce measures to integrate or reintegrate women living in poverty
and socially marginalized women into productive employment and the
economic mainstream; ensure that internally displaced women have full
access to economic opportunities and that the qualifications and
skills of immigrant and refugee women are recognized;
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