CEDAW/C/GC/37 situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity. They also acknowledged that adaptation, including capacity-building for mitigation and adaptation action, should be genderresponsive, participatory and fully transparent, taking into consideration vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems. 22. The Sustainable Development Goals contain important targets on gender equality, including those in Goals 3–6 and 10, and on climate change and disaster risk reduction, in Goals 11 and 13. 23. At the third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa in 2015, participants adopted documents that link gender equality and women’s rights with climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and called upon States to integrate those issues into development financing. 24. Participants in the World Humanitarian Summit, in 2016, called for gender equality, the empowerment of women and women’s rights to become pillars of humanitarian action, including in disaster preparedness and response. Also in 2016, in the New Urban Agenda, the participants in the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) recognized the need for gender-responsive measures to ensure that urban development was sustainable, resilient and contributed to climate change mitigation and adaptation. IV. General principles of the Convention applicable to disaster risk reduction and climate change 25. Several cross-cutting principles and provisions of the Convention are of crucial importance and should serve as guidance in the drafting of legislation, policies, plans of action, programmes, budgets and other measures relating to disaster risk reduction and climate change. 26. States parties should ensure that all policies, legislation, plans, programmes, budgets and other activities relating to disaster risk reduction and climate change are gender responsive and grounded in human rights-based principles, including the following: (a) Equality and non-discrimination, with priority being accorded to the most marginalized groups of women and girls, such as those from indigenous, racial, ethnic and sexual minority groups, women and girls with disabilities, adolescents, older women, unmarried women, women heads of household, widows, women and girls living in poverty in both rural and urban settings, women in prostitution and internally displaced, stateless, refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women; (b) Participation and empowerment, through the adoption of effective processes and the allocation of the resources necessary to ensure that diverse groups of women have opportunities to participate in every stage of policy development, implementation and monitoring at each level of government, at the local, national, regional and international levels; (c) Accountability and access to justice, which require the provision of appropriate and accurate information and mechanisms in order to ensure that all women and girls whose rights have been directly and indirectly affected by disasters and climate change are provided with adequate and timely remedies. 27. Those three general principles — equality and non-discrimination, participation and empowerment, accountability and access to justice — are fundamental to 18-03824 7/24