Women in development
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entities of the United Nations system to provide support and assistance to developing
countries, upon their request, with respect to establishing, developing and
strengthening their databases and information systems;
50. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with the United Nations system,
including the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System,
which coordinates data within the United Nations statistical system, and other
relevant international organizations, upon the request of Governments, to collect,
analyse and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and statistics and to assess the impact
of associated policy measures on women’s:
(a) Employment, entrepreneurship and access to decent work and social
protection;
(b) Unpaid care and domestic work through regular time-use surveys and the
establishment of satellite accounts to assess the contribution of such work to national
income;
(c) Informal employment, including agricultural work, disaggregated by sex,
income, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability and geographic location;
51. Urges all Member States to undertake a gender analysis of national labour
laws and standards and to establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines for
employment practices, including for transnational corporations, with particular
attention to export-processing zones, building, in this regard, on multilateral
instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and conventions of the International Labour
Organization;
52. Urges Member States to incorporate a gender perspective, commensurate
with national gender equality goals, into the design, implementation, monitoring,
evaluation and reporting of national sustainable development strategies, to ensure
alignment between national action plans on gender equality and national development
strategies and to encourage the involvement of men and boys in the promotion of
gender equality, and in this regard calls upon the United N ations system to support
national efforts to develop methodologies and tools and to promote capacity -building
and evaluation;
53. Encourages Member States to ensure the inclusive and more effective
participation of national mechanisms for gender equality and the empowerment of
women in the formulation of national development strategies, including strategies
aimed at eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities, and to strengthen capacities
for gender mainstreaming by allocating adequate financial and huma n resources to
national women’s machineries, as well as to, and within, line ministries, establishing
and/or strengthening dedicated units for gender equality and the empowerment of
women, providing capacity development for technical staff and developing t ools and
guidelines, and calls upon the United Nations system to support national efforts in
this regard;
54. Also encourages Member States to continue to increase, as appropriate,
the participation of civil society, including women’s and youth organizations, in
government decision-making processes in national policy areas, including sustainable
development;
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