(i) Strengthen the capacities and mandates of insti-
(n) Undertake and disseminate gender analysis of pol-
tutional frameworks and accountability mechanisms, including of national machineries for the
advancement of women, and ensure that they are
continuously and adequately resourced and given
the authority necessary to carry out their critical
role in advocating for, supporting, monitoring and
evaluating the integration of gender perspectives in
all policy areas and the implementation of gender
equality plans, programmes and legislation;
icies and programmes related to macroeconomic
stability, structural adjustment, external debt problems, taxation, investments, employment, markets
and all relevant sectors of the economy and support and facilitate research in those areas, with a
view to achieving the objectives of the Platform for
Action and with respect to their impact on poverty,
on inequality and particularly on women, as well as
to assess their impact on family well-being and conditions and adjust them, as appropriate, to promote
more equitable distribution of productive assets,
wealth, opportunities, income and services;
(j) Strengthen a coordinated and institutionalized
dialogue between national mechanisms for the
advancement of women, relevant governmental agencies and entities, including ministries of
finance and planning and their gender focal points,
and women’s organizations in order to ensure the
integration of gender perspectives into all national
development policies, plans and budgets;
(o) Carry out gender-sensitive analysis of revenues
and expenditures in all policy areas and take into
account the review and evaluation results in budget
planning, allocation and revenue-raising in order to
enhance the contribution of Government expenditures to accelerating the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action;
(k) Cost and adequately resource national policies, programmes, strategies and plans for gender equality
and the empowerment of women, including gender
mainstreaming and affirmative action strategies,
and ensure that they are incorporated into overall
national development strategies and reflected
in relevant sector plans and budgets to achieve
international and regional commitments for gender
equality, including Millennium Development Goal 3;
(p) Develop and implement, where appropriate, meth-
odologies and tools, including national indicators, for
gender-responsive planning and budgeting in order
to systematically incorporate gender perspectives
into budgetary policies at all levels, with a view to
promoting gender equality in all policy areas;
(l) Allocate resources for capacity development in
(q) Urge developed countries that have not yet done
gender mainstreaming in all ministries, particularly
within national women’s machineries and finance
ministries and, as appropriate, local authorities, in
order to ensure that domestic resource mobilization
and allocation are carried out in a gender-responsive manner, and reinforce national efforts in capacity-building in social and gender budget policies;
so, in accordance with their commitments, to make
concrete efforts towards meeting the target of 0.7
per cent of their gross national product for official
development assistance to developing countries
and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their gross national
product to least developed countries, and encourage developing countries to build on the progress
achieved in ensuring that official development
assistance is used effectively to help meet development goals and targets and, inter alia, to assist
them in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women;
(m) Improve, systematize and fund the collection, anal-
ysis and dissemination of sex-disaggregated and
gender-related data, including data disaggregated
by age and other factors and data on women’s
contribution to the care economy, and develop
necessary input, output and outcome indicators at
all levels to measure progress in financing gender
equality and the empowerment of women, in particular in introducing and implementing gender-responsive approaches to public finance;
(r) Ensure the effective and equitable participation of
developing countries in the formulation of financial
standards and codes, with a view to the promotion of
gender equality and the empowerment of women;
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