training in their use, access to, investment and use of
these technologies for, inter alia, networking, advocacy, exchange of information, business, education,
media consultation and e-commerce initiatives;
(u) Enhance market access for developing countries and
countries with economies in transition, in particular
for those sectors that provide greater employment
opportunities for women, and expand access for
women entrepreneurs to trade opportunities;
(aa) Ensure that national legislative and administrative
(v) Undertake socio-economic policies that promote
reform processes, including those linked to land
reform, decentralization and reorientation of the
economy, promote women’s rights, particularly
those of rural women and women living in poverty,
and take measures to promote and implement
those rights through women’s equal access to and
control over economic resources, including land,
property rights, right to inheritance, credit and
traditional saving schemes, such as women’s banks
and cooperatives;
sustainable development and support and ensure
poverty eradication programmes, especially for
women, by, inter alia, providing skills training, equal
access to and control over resources, finance, credit,
including microcredit, information and technology
and equal access to markets to benefit women of
all ages, in particular those living in poverty and
marginalized women, including rural women, indigenous women and female-headed households;
(w) Take measures to develop and implement gender-
(bb) Ensure that clean water is available and accessible
sensitive programmes aimed at stimulating women’s
entrepreneurship and private initiative and assist
women-owned business in participating in and benefiting from, inter alia, international trade, technological innovation and investment;
to all, particularly to women living in poverty;
(cc) Provide additional international financing and
assistance to developing countries in support of their
efforts to empower women and eradicate poverty
and mainstream gender perspectives in the official
development assistance process, including specific
provisions for meeting the needs of women living in
poverty in areas such as education, training, employment and health, as well as in social and economic
policies, including macroeconomic policies, with a
view of achieving sustainable development, and
urge developed countries that have not done so
to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7
per cent of gross national product (GNP) as official
development assistance to developing countries and
0.15 to 0.20 per cent of GNP of developed countries
to least developed countries, as reconfirmed at the
Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed
Countries, and encourage developing countries to
build on progress achieved in ensuring that official
development assistance is used effectively to help
achieve development goals and targets;
(x) Develop strategies to increase employment of
women and to ensure that women, including
women living in poverty, are protected by law
against discriminatory terms and conditions of
employment and any form of exploitation, that
they benefit fully from job creation through a
balanced representation of women and men in all
sectors and occupations and that women receive
equal pay for equal work or work of equal value to
diminish differentials in incomes between women
and men;
(y) Facilitate the transfer to developing countries and
countries with economies in transition of appropriate
technology, particularly new and modern technology,
and encourage efforts by the international community to eliminate restrictions on such transfers as an
effective means of complementing national efforts
for further acceleration in achieving the goals of
gender equality, development and peace;
(dd) Promote, in the spirit of solidarity, international coop-
eration, including through voluntary contributions,
in order to undertake actions in the field of poverty
eradication, particularly among women and girls;
(z) Promote and facilitate the equal access of women
and girls, including those living in rural areas, to
information and communication technologies,
including newly developed technologies, and promote women’s and girls’ access to education and
(ee) Ensure that women, especially poor women in
developing countries, benefit from the pursuit of
effective, equitable, development-oriented and
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