evaluation, using both quantitative and qualitative indicators, and an emphasis on women as key actors, with an appropriate emphasis on the role of men. 65. In preparing the section on strategic objectives and actions, use should be made of suggestions provided by Member States, by intergovernmental bodies, by organizations of the United Nations system and by non-governmental organizations, as well as the observations made during the thirty-eighth session. The actions should also take account of the results of regional conferences, as well as of the International Conference on Population and Development and the preparations for the World Summit for Social Development. A. Enable women to overcome poverty 66. Actions that address women’s economic self-reliance and access to quality education and to health services will also help to eliminate the factors that accentuate poverty. Given appropriate resources and structural support, women can themselves overcome poverty. However, poverty is different in degree and in solution in developed and developing countries, between urban and rural areas and for specific groups of women. Actions should be designed to take into account these differences. Women should be incorporated in the design and implementation of poverty alleviation policies and programmes. A target of a 50 per cent reduction in the population in extreme poverty by the year 2000 should be aimed at. Develop gender-sensitive national and international economic policies 67. International financial institutions, Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations should assess the poverty and gender implications of current macroeconomic policies, including structural adjustment programmes, especially those that have a direct impact on women in poverty. National and international financial institutions should study their effects on the poor and develop gender-sensitive policies, appraisal and approval procedures and monitoring, in particular programmes aiming at the achievement of a sustainable livelihood for poor rural and urban women in developing countries. Governments should prioritize efforts and take further concrete steps to quantify and value the contribution of women’s unpaid work in agriculture, food production, reproduction and household labour and to reflect the value of these contributions in the gross national product and other economic statistics, defining the unpaid worker as a worker in the System of National Accounts. Target policies and programmes to poor women 68. Programmes to provide access to productive resources should be designed to provide poor women with economic opportunities. Governments should give increased priority to investments in education and training, including the eradication of illiteracy, as well as to investment in health services, including reproductive health and family planning, in areas where poor women live and work. Special efforts should be made to reach the girl child. Child and dependant care and other social support facilities should be made available through action by Governments and non-governmental organizations. Alternative women-friendly credit systems should be introduced, together with methods of control on household resources, food security and adequate housing; self-help organizations should be promoted and female-headed households assisted. Assistance should be provided, of both a specific and a multisectoral character, by the international community as well as by national sources. -41-