173. By Governments in cooperation with non-governmental organizations and the
private sector:
(a)
Provide public infrastructure to ensure equal market access for women
and men entrepreneurs;
(b)
Develop programmes that provide training and retraining, particularly
in new technologies, and affordable services to women in business
management, product development, financing, production and quality
control, marketing and the legal aspects of business;
(c)
Provide outreach programmes to inform low-income and poor women,
particularly in rural and remote areas, of opportunities for market
and technology access, and provide assistance in taking advantage of
such opportunities;
(d)
Create non-discriminatory support services, including investment funds
for women’s businesses, and target women, particularly low-income
women, in trade promotion programmes;
(e)
Disseminate information about successful women entrepreneurs in both
traditional and non-traditional economic activities and the skills
necessary to achieve success, and facilitate networking and the
exchange of information;
(f)
Take measures to ensure equal access of women to ongoing training in
the workplace, including unemployed women, single parents, women
re-entering the labour market after an extended temporary exit from
employment owing to family responsibilities and other causes, and
women displaced by new forms of production or by retrenchment, and
increase incentives to enterprises to expand the number of vocational
and training centres that provide training for women in
non-traditional areas;
(g)
Provide affordable support services, such as high-quality, flexible
and affordable child-care services, that take into account the needs
of working men and women.
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