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negative impacts on sustainable development, through integrated, coordinated and
coherent strategies at all levels;
(ccc) Recognize the urgency of providing predictable, sustainable and
sufficient development finance to developing countries from all sources in order to
significantly increase resources for ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
including extreme and multidimensional poverty, affecting women and girls,
including by taking steps towards reforms that ensure a stable, inclusive and
sustainable international financial architecture;
(ddd) Strengthen standards and regulatory frameworks on the labelling of
gender-focused bond issuances to ensure demonstrable, additive and measurable
impact is being achieved through the reporting on key performance indicators;
(eee) Take concrete steps to support gender-responsive budgeting and tracking
across all sectors of public expenditure, to address gaps in resourcing all national and
sectoral plans and policies for gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls to ensure their effective implementation; and increase transparency and
accountability in the planning, budgeting and financing process, adopt practices to
identify potential gender impacts of budget decisions and develop and strengthen
methodologies and tools to monitor and evaluate investments for gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls;
(fff) Foster the full, equal and meaningful participation of all women, as well
as encourage the active engagement of women’s rights organizations and feminist
groups, in budget processes through open budgets, community and citizen
participation in monitoring of service delivery, including in the process and outcomes
of gender-responsive budgeting, and ensure transparency and accountability in the
implementation of all public programmes and services;
(ggg) Strengthen national and local planning and budgetary processe s to enable
governments to cost, allocate and invest in policies and programmes that, inter alia,
address challenges facing all women and girls living in poverty, including by
conducting gender analyses that are embedded in policy and decision -making
processes, and by increasing the capacity of ministries of finance in assessing the
different impact of fiscal policies on women;
(hhh) Promote efforts towards inclusive, effective international tax cooperation,
including on combating tax evasion and avoidance and curbing illicit financial flows,
to expand fiscal space, and include a focus on directing resources to eradicate poverty
in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, among women and girls
throughout their life course;
(iii)
Ensure tax systems do not inadvertently reinforce gender biases in
society, including, inter alia, by assessing the impact of taxation policies on gender
equality, with a focus on promoting women’s access to work and resources, and
encouraging steps to increase the progressivity of tax policies with a focus on taxing
those with the highest ability to pay, including via wealth and corporate taxation, and
preventing regressive taxation that disproportionately impacts women with low or no
incomes;
(jjj)
Take concrete steps towards eliminating the practice of gender-based
price differentiation, where it exists, also known as the “pink tax”, which contributes
to feminization of poverty, whereby goods and services intended for or marketed to
women and girls cost more than similar goods and services intended for or marketed
to men and boys;
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