(ii) Ensure that adequate resources are allocated for
equal access to training and productive resources
and social protection; and facilitate equal access of
women, particularly women in developing and least
developed countries, to markets at all levels;
activities targeting persistent serious obstacles to
the advancement of women in situations of armed
conflict and in conflicts of other types, wars of
aggression, foreign occupation, colonial or other
alien domination as well as terrorism;
(ee) Strengthen education, health, and social services
and effectively utilize resources to achieve gender
equality and the empowerment of women and
ensure women’s and girls’ rights to education at all
levels and the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health, including
sexual and reproductive health, as well as quality,
affordable and universally accessible health care
and services, in particular primary health care;
(jj) Integrate a gender perspective into the design,
implementation, monitoring, evaluation and
reporting of national environmental policies,
strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate
resources to ensure women’s full and equal participation in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, in particular on strategies related to
the impact of climate change on the lives of women
and girls;
(ff) Address the overall expansion and feminization of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic, taking into account that
women and girls bear a disproportionate share of
the burden imposed by the HIV/AIDS crisis, that
they are more easily infected, that they play a
key role in care and that they have become more
vulnerable to violence, stigma and discrimination,
poverty and marginalization from their families and
communities as a result of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and,
in that regard, significantly scale up efforts towards
the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support
by 2010 and ensure that those efforts integrate and
promote gender equality;
(kk) Strengthen coordination, accountability, effective-
ness and efficiency in the United Nations system
for the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women, including through more
effective mainstreaming in all aspects and enhancing its capacity to effectively assist States, at their
request, in implementing their programmes on
gender equality and the empowerment of women
and, to that end, make adequate and reliable
human and financial resources available;
(ll) Create and enhance a supportive environment for
the mobilization of resources by non-governmental
organizations, in particular women’s organizations
and networks, to enable them to increase their
effectiveness and to contribute to gender equality and the empowerment of women, including
through assisting in the implementation of the
Platform for Action and participating in policy processes and programme delivery;
(gg) Ensure adequate financing for women’s full, equal
and effective participation at all levels in conflict
prevention, management and resolution, peace
negotiations and peacebuilding, including adequate
national and international funding to ensure proper
access to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration and other relevant programmes for women
and girls;
(mm)
Provide assistance to States parties to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, upon their request,
to support the implementation of the obligations
of States parties under the Convention.
(hh) Reduce excessive military expenditures, including
global military expenditures, trade in arms and
investment for arms production and acquisition,
taking into consideration national security requirements, in order to permit the possible allocation
of additional funds for social and economic development, including for gender equality and the
advancement of women;
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