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(vv) Strengthen and support the contributions of rural women to the
agricultural sector and to enhancing agricultural and rural development,
including small-scale farming, and ensure that women have equal access to
agricultural technologies, through investments and transfer of technology on
mutually agreed terms, and innovation in small-scale agricultural production
and distribution, and address the existing gaps in and barriers to trading their
agricultural products in local, regional and international markets;
(ww) Strengthen international cooperation, including the role of NorthSouth, South-South and triangular cooperation, bearing in mind that SouthSouth cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a complement to, NorthSouth cooperation, and invites all Member States to enhance South-South and
triangular cooperation focusing on shared development priorities, with the
involvement of all relevant stakeholders in government, civil society and the
private sector, while noting that national ownership and leadership in this
regard are indispensable for the achievement of gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls;
(xx) Recognize the important role the media can play in the
elimination of gender stereotypes and, to the extent consistent with freedom of
expression, increase the participation and access of women to all forms of
media, and encourage the media to increase public awareness of the Beijing
Platform for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, gender equality and
the empowerment of women and girls;
Maximizing investments in gender equality and the empowerment of women
(yy)
Increase and ensure the effectiveness of financial resources across
all sectors to achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and the
realization and enjoyment of women’s and girls’ human rights through
mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including domestic
resource mobilization and allocation and increased priority to gender equality
in official development assistance, and the creation of voluntary innovative
financing mechanisms, as appropriate;
(zz)
Urge developed countries that have not yet done so, in
accordance with their commitments, to make concrete efforts towards meeting
the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for official development
assistance to developing countries and the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of
their gross national product for official development assistance to least
developed countries, and encourage developing countries to build on the
progress achieved in ensuring that official development assistance is used
effectively to help meet development goals and targets and help them, inter
alia, to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women;
(aaa) Recognize that the long-term sustainability of debt depends on,
inter alia, economic growth, the mobilization of domestic and international
resources, export prospects of debtor countries, sustainable debt management,
sound macroeconomic policies that also support job creation, transparent and
effective regulatory frameworks and success in overcoming structural
development problems, and hence on the creation of an enabling international
environment that is conducive to sustainable development, gender equality and
the empowerment of women;
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