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their full enjoyment of human rights and quality of life, as well as to address their
needs, with a view to contributing to the realization of a society for all ages;
(d) Design and implement policies and programmes to address fully specific
needs of women and girls with disabilities, to ensure their equal access to education
at all levels, including technical and vocational training and adequate rehabilitation
programmes, health care and services and employment opportunities, to protect and
promote their human rights and, where appropriate, to eliminate existing inequalities
between women and men with disabilities.
C.
Actions to be taken at the international level
By the United Nations system and international and regional organizations,
as appropriate:
84. (a) Assist Governments, at their request, in building institutional capacity
and developing national action plans or further implementing existing action plans
for the implementation of the Platform for Action;
(b) Support
non-governmental
organizations,
especially
women’s
organizations, to build their capacity to advocate for, implement, assess and follow
up the Platform for Action;
(c) Allocate sufficient resources to regional and national programmes to
implement the Platform for Action in its twelve critical areas of concern;
(d) Assist Governments in countries with economies in transition to further
develop and implement plans and programmes aimed at economic and political
empowerment of women;
(e) Encourage the Economic and Social Council to request the regional
commissions, within their respective mandates and resources, to build up a database
to be updated regularly, in which all programmes and projects carried out in their
respective regions by agencies or organizations of the United Nations system are
listed, and to facilitate their dissemination, as well as the evaluation of their impact
on the empowerment of women through the implementation of the Platform for
Action.
85. (a) Continue to implement and evaluate and follow up the mandated work of
the United Nations agencies, drawing on the full range of expertise available within
the United Nations system, as well as agreed conclusions of the Economic and
Social Council and other programmes and initiatives, to mainstream a gender
perspective into all policies, programmes and planning of the United Nations
system, including through the integrated and coordinated follow-up to all major
United Nations conferences and summits, as well as to ensure the allocation of
sufficient resources and maintenance of gender units and focal points to achieve this
end;
(b) Assist countries, upon their request, in developing methods for and
compiling statistics on the contributions of women and men to society and the
economy, and the socio-economic situation of women and men, in particular in
relation to poverty and paid and unpaid work in all sectors;
(c) Support national efforts, particularly in developing countries, for
enlarged access to new information technology as part of the efforts to develop
collaborative research, training and information dissemination, including through
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