Women in development A/RES/74/235 and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 6 as well as the outcomes of their reviews; 9. Recognizes the importance of the full engagement of men and boys as strategic partners, allies, agents and beneficiaries of change for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and commits to taking measures to fully engage men and boys in efforts to achieve the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasions of the tenth, 1 fifteenth 2 and twentieth 3 anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 10. Also recognizes the mutually reinforcing links between gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and poverty eradic ation, as well as the need to elaborate and implement, where appropriate, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, participatory, comprehensive, gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues in order to ensure an adequate standard of living for women and girls throughout the life cycle, including through social protection systems; 11. Urges States to scale up efforts to accelerate the transition of women from informal employment to formal employment, including access to decent work, improved wages, social protection and quality childcare, and to effectively support the recognition, reduction and equitable redistribution of unpaid care and domestic work by women, including through sustained investments in the care economy; 12. Recognizes that unremunerated work, including unpaid care and domestic work, plays an essential role in improving well-being in the household and in the functioning of the economy as a whole, and acknowledging the need to recognize and consider, where appropriate, policies and programmes that would contribute to reducing the unequal burden of unremunerated work, including unpaid care and domestic work, for which women and girls continue to carry a disproportionately high level of responsibility, and to promote shared responsibility within the household; 13. Calls for closing the gender gap in access to financial and productive resources, including assets, information and services in agriculture, noting with concern that the gender gap persists with respect to many assets, inputs and services, and stresses the need to invest in and strengthen efforts to empower women, in particular rural women, to address their own food and nutritional needs and those of their families, to promote adequate standards of living for them, as well as decent conditions of work, and to promote their personal health, well -being and security, and guarantee their full access to land and natural resources and access to local, regional and global markets; 14. Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women in agricultural development, including smallholders and women farmers, and indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, and stresses the importance of reviewing agricultural policies and strategies to ensure that women’s critical role in providing food security and nutrition is recognized and addressed as an integral part of both short- and long-term responses 19-22508 7/17