A/RES/52/195 Page 3 3. Stresses that a favourable and conducive international and national economic, financial, political, social and legal environment and a positive investment climate are necessary for the effective integration of women in development; 4. Reiterates its call to all Governments and all actors of society to implement the commitment made at Beijing to create an enabling environment by, inter alia, removing discriminatory barriers and ensuring the full and equal participation of women in economic activities through, inter alia, the adoption of gendersensitive policies and legal measures and the provision of other necessary structures; 5. Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities to generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty; 6. Urges Governments to develop and promote methodologies for mainstreaming a gender perspective into all aspects of policy-making, including economic policy-making; 7. Stresses the need to ensure that women and girls have full and equal access to all levels of education, vocational training and retraining programmes in order to improve their employment opportunities; 8. Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and access to economic resources and to increase the access of women to credit by instituting innovative lending practices, including practices that integrate credit with services and training for women and that provide flexible credit facilities to women, in particular rural women, women in the informal sector, young women and women who lack access to traditional sources of collateral; 9. Invites Governments to enact legislation to ensure that women have equal access to and control over land, unmediated by male relatives, in order to end land rights discrimination, that women are accorded secure use rights and are fully represented in the decision-making bodies that allocate land and other forms of property, credit, information and new technologies, that in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action women are accorded full and equal rights to own land and other property, inter alia, through inheritance, and that land reform programmes begin by acknowledging the equality of the rights of women to land and that other measures are taken to increase land availability to poor women and men; 10. Requests Governments to ensure that the priorities of women are included in, and that women fully participate in, decisions on public investment programmes for economic infrastructure, technology, water supply and sanitation, electrification and energy conservation, transport and road construction and to promote greater involvement of women beneficiaries at the project planning and implementation stages to ensure their access to jobs and contracts; 11. Urges Governments to promote and strengthen microenterprises, new small businesses, cooperative enterprises, expanded markets and other employment opportunities, to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition from the informal to the formal sector, especially in rural areas, to provide outreach programmes to inform low-income and poor women, particularly in rural and remote areas, of opportunities for market and technology access and to provide women with assistance in taking advantage of such opportunities; 12. Calls upon Governments to promote, inter alia, through legislation, family-friendly and gendersensitive work environments and also to promote the facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers; 13. Urges the international community, the United Nations system and other relevant organizations to give priority to assisting the efforts of developing countries to ensure the full and effective participation of women in deciding and implementing development strategies, through, inter alia, the increased access of women to health care, capital, education, training and technology and full and equal participation in decisionmaking; /...