undertaking gender impact analysis; where necessary the support of the international community could be enlisted, including resources; "OP3. [Urges all Governments, the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, and civil society, to implement the Platform for Action in its entirety;] [, including undertaking gender impact analysis;] "OP4. Emphasizes that, in addition to the commitments and recommendations regarding the eradication of poverty outlined in the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development and in the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, measures should be undertaken specifically in the context of the Platform for Action to address the feminization of poverty and to mainstream a gender perspective in all policies and programmes for the eradication of poverty, including, inter alia, measures to: "(a) Develop and implement education, training and retraining policies for women and girls; "(b) Undertake legislative and administrative reforms to give women full and equal access to economic resources, including the right to inheritance and to ownership of land and other property, credit, natural resources and appropriate technologies; "(c) Promote the participation of women at all levels of decisionmaking; "(d) Develop national strategies for promoting employment and selfemployment, including entrepreneurial and organizational skills, in order to generate income for women; "(e) Adopt policies to ensure that all women have adequate economic and social protection during unemployment, ill health, maternity, childbearing, widowhood, disability and old age and that women, men and society share responsibilities for child and other dependant care; "(e bis) 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; "(f) Develop gender-based methodologies and conduct research [for use in designing a more effective policy to recognize and value the full contribution of women to the economy through all forms of work and employment and to address the feminization of poverty, in particular the relationship between unremunerated work and women’s vulnerability to poverty;] [delete: to address the contribution of women to the economy, the feminization of poverty, and the economic and social impact of debt and structural adjustment programmes in all developing countries, particularly in Africa, and in the least developed countries;] "(f bis) [Analyse, from a gender perspective, macroeconomic and micro-economic policies, including structural adjustment policies and programmes and the allocation of public expenditures, which should be designed and implemented with the full and equal participation of women so as to avoid negative impacts on women living in poverty;] -68-

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