(i)
Analyse, advise on, coordinate and implement policies that integrate
the needs and interests of employed, self-employed and entrepreneurial
women into sectoral and inter-ministerial policies, programmes and
budgets;
(j)
Ensure equal access for women to effective job training, retraining,
counselling and placement services that are not limited to traditional
employment areas;
(k)
Remove policy and regulatory obstacles faced by women in social and
development programmes that discourage private and individual
initiative;
(l)
Safeguard and promote respect for basic workers’ rights, including the
prohibition of forced labour and child labour, freedom of association
and the right to organize and bargain collectively, equal remuneration
for men and women for work of equal value and non-discrimination in
employment, fully implementing the conventions of the International
Labour Organization in the case of States Parties to those conventions
and, taking into account the principles embodied in the case of those
countries that are not parties to those conventions in order to
achieve truly sustained economic growth and sustainable development.
167. By Governments, central banks and national development banks, and private
banking institutions, as appropriate:
(a)
Increase the participation of women, including women entrepreneurs, in
advisory boards and other forums to enable women entrepreneurs from
all sectors and their organizations to contribute to the formulation
and review of policies and programmes being developed by economic
ministries and banking institutions;
(b)
Mobilize the banking sector to increase lending and refinancing
through incentives and the development of intermediaries that serve
the needs of women entrepreneurs and producers in both rural and urban
areas, and include women in their leadership, planning and decisionmaking;
(c)
Structure services to reach rural and urban women involved in micro,
small and medium-scale enterprises, with special attention to young
women, low-income women, those belonging to ethnic and racial
minorities, and indigenous women who lack access to capital and
assets; and expand women’s access to financial markets by identifying
and encouraging financial supervisory and regulatory reforms that
support financial institutions’ direct and indirect efforts to better
meet the credit and other financial needs of the micro, small and
medium-scale enterprises of women;
(d)
Ensure that women’s priorities are included in public investment
programmes for economic infrastructure, such as water and sanitation,
electrification and energy conservation, transport and road
construction; promote greater involvement of women beneficiaries at
the project planning and implementation stages to ensure access to
jobs and contracts.
168. By Governments and non-governmental organizations:
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