· Provide gender-sensitive training for school administrators, parents and all members of the school community, such as local administrators, staff, teachers, school boards and students; · Review teaching materials, including textbooks, to promote the selfesteem of women and girls through positive self-images and revise these materials, highlighting women’s effective role in society, including in decision-making, development, culture, history, sports and other social, political and economic endeavours; · Develop programmes of sensitization on the gender perspective for staff of government offices working on educational issues concerning indigenous and rural girls, and develop educational materials adapted to their situation; · Identify the special needs of girls in difficult circumstances, including girls from migrant families, refugee and displaced girls, girls from ethnic minorities, indigenous girls, orphaned girls, girls with disabilities and other girls with special needs, and provide the resources necessary to address their needs; · Involve girls, including girls with special needs, and their representative organizations in the decision-making process and include them as full and active partners in identifying their own needs and in designing, planning, implementing and assessing policies and programmes to meet those needs; · Provide training opportunities for girls to develop their skills in leadership, advocacy and conflict resolution; · Make visible girls’ and boys’ unpaid work in the household by conducting research and documenting gender differences, particularly in rural communities, note the implications of household work for girls’ equal access to basic and further education and career development and take measures to redress imbalances and eliminate discrimination. C. Health needs of girls Actions to be taken by Governments, civil society and the United Nations system, as appropriate: · Protect the girl child from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse by taking appropriate measures, including, for example, designing and implementing legislation; · Encourage parents, coalitions of concerned organizations and individuals, especially political leaders, popular and community figures and the media, to advocate for children’s health, including adolescent girls’ reproductive and sexual health; · Eradicate all customary or traditional practices, particularly female genital mutilation, that are harmful to or discriminate against women and girls and that are violations of women’s human rights and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, through the design and implementation of -28-