6.
Recommends that Governments create or strengthen national machinery
for the advancement of women, placing it at the highest level, and ensure its
greater involvement in the political, economic and social planning processes;
7.
Also recommends that Governments, international donors and
non-governmental organizations further develop gender-oriented research in all
development areas, particularly by the involvement of national research
institutes, and promote specific measures in the field of training in gender
analysis programmes for development decision makers and the relevant staff
involved in the policy and programme areas, in addition to implementation
processes;
8.
Calls upon Governments, international financial and other relevant
institutions and non-governmental organizations to promote measures to stimulate
the economies of developing countries and the full integration of women in the
development process and to provide financial services on the basis of equal
opportunity for women and men, while avoiding adverse effects on their
well-being, particularly that of vulnerable groups;
9.
Calls upon donor Governments and international financial institutions
to provide adequate and timely support for the efforts of the developing
countries, particularly the least developed countries, in reducing the negative
effects of the external debt burden, structural adjustment policies and adverse
terms of trade, with a view to integrating women in mainstream development;
10. Urges all States to work for the achievement of the goals endorsed in
the Geneva Declaration for Rural Women and all organs, organizations and bodies
of the United Nations system to take into account the goals of the Geneva
Declaration in carrying out their programmes, and invites the relevant governing
bodies to consider the adoption of specific measures, within their respective
fields of competence, with a view to meeting the special needs of rural women in
the light of the Geneva Declaration;
11. Appeals to Governments, donor countries, international organizations
and appropriate financial institutions to make greater efforts to support the
establishment of cooperative rural banks and other development-related
institutions to assist women, particularly those engaged in small- and
medium-scale productive activities;
12. Requests Member States to make provision for specific training
programmes for women in rural and urban areas aimed at developing their
technical and management skills and to give financial support, fellowships or
both for training women, particularly those from developing countries, in
science, technology, agriculture and management;
13. Calls upon Governments, donor countries and relevant international
organizations to take further coordinated measures to facilitate the access of
women, particularly rural and urban poor women, to basic education and health
and child-care facilities;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, in reporting on the implementation of
the present resolution in his biennial monitoring report on the implementation
of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, to
include policy and programme recommendations on the basis of gender analysis;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the issues of women
and development and of the integration of women in development programmes are an
integral part of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United
Nations Development Decade.
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