(s) Strengthen the focus and impact of development
(y) Allocate adequate resources for the elimination
assistance, specifically targeting gender equality
and empowerment of women and girls, in line
with national development priorities, through
both gender mainstreaming and funding of targeted activities and enhanced dialogue on those
issues between donors and developing countries,
and strengthen mechanisms to effectively measure resources allocated to incorporating gender
perspectives in all sectors and thematic areas of
development assistance;
of all forms of discrimination against women in
the workplace, including unequal access to labour
market participation and wage inequalities, as well
as reconciliation of work and private life for both
women and men;
(z) Establish and fund active labour market policies
devoted to the promotion of full and productive
employment and decent work for all, including the
full participation of women in all international and
national development and poverty eradication
strategies, the creation of more and better jobs for
women, both urban and rural, and their inclusion in
social protection and social dialogue;
(t) Encourage the integration of gender perspectives
in aid modalities and efforts to enhance aid delivery
mechanisms;
(u) Identify and implement development-oriented and
(aa) Take measures to develop, finance, implement,
monitor and evaluate gender-responsive policies and
programmes aimed at promoting women’s entrepreneurship and private initiative, including through
microfinance, microcredit and cooperatives, and
assist women-owned businesses in participating in
and benefiting from, inter alia, international trade,
technological innovation and transfer, investment
and knowledge and skills training;
durable solutions that integrate a gender perspective
into the external debt and debt-servicing problems
of developing countries, including least developed
countries, inter alia, through debt relief, including the
option of debt cancellation under official development assistance, in order to help them to finance
programmes and projects targeted at development,
including the advancement of women;
(v) Encourage international financial institutions to
( bb) Fully maximize the role of and ensure access
continue to take gender perspectives into account
in the design of loans, grants, projects, programmes
and strategies;
to microfinance tools, including microcredit for
poverty eradication, employment generation
and, especially, for the empowerment of women,
encourage the strengthening of existing and
emerging microcredit institutions and their capacities, including through the support of international
financial institutions, and ensure that best practices
are widely disseminated;
(w) Identify and address the differential impact of
trade policies on women and men and incorporate gender perspectives in the formulation,
implementation and evaluation of trade policies,
develop strategies to expand trade opportunities
for women producers and facilitate the active
participation of women in national, regional and
international trade decision-making structures and
processes;
(cc) Undertake legislative and administrative reforms
to give women full and equal access to economic
resources, including the right to inheritance and to
ownership of land and other property, credit, natural resources and appropriate technologies;
(x) Undertake gender-sensitive assessments of
national labour laws, policies and programmes
and establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines for employment practices, including those of
transnational corporations, building on appropriate
multilateral instruments, including the conventions
of the International Labour Organization;
(dd) Take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrim-
ination against women and increase their access to
and control over bank loans, mortgages and other
forms of financial credit, giving special attention
to poor, uneducated women; support women’s
access to legal assistance; encourage the financial
sector to mainstream gender perspectives in its
policies and programmes; ensure women’s full and
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