"(a) Development and implementation of education, training and
retraining policies for women and girls;
"(b) Promotion and protection of women’s rights to full and equal
access to economic resources, including the right to inheritance and to
ownership of land and other property, credit, natural resources and
appropriate technologies;
"(c) Promotion of the participation of women at all levels of
decision-making;
"(d) Mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the design of policies
and programmes for the eradication of poverty;
"(e) Development of national strategies for promoting employment and
self-employment, including entrepreneurial and organizational skills in
order to generate income for women;
"(f) Adoption of policies to ensure that all women have adequate
economic and social protection during unemployment, ill health, maternity,
child-bearing, widowhood, disability and old age;
"(g) Development of gender-based methodologies and conducting of
research to address the contribution of women to the economy, the
feminization of poverty and the economic and social impact of debt and
structural adjustment programmes in all developing countries, in particular
African countries and the least developed countries;
"(h) Reduction, as appropriate, of excessive military expenditures and
investments for arms production and acquisition, consistent with national
security requirements, in order to increase resources for social and
economic development;
"5. Calls for the urgent implementation of the outcome of all other
major United Nations conferences and summits related to the eradication of
poverty;
"6. Calls upon States to undertake commitments 2 and 5 of the
Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, and calls upon all relevant
international actors to implement promptly the actions for the eradication
of poverty, as contained in the Programme of Action of the World Summit for
Social Development;
"7. Stresses that the United Nations system, including the Bretton
Woods institutions, should play a central role in enhancing financial and
technical support and assistance for developing countries, particularly
African countries and the least developed countries, in their efforts to
achieve the objectives set forth in the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action, particularly the goal of the eradication of the feminization of
poverty;
"8. Stresses the importance of using all available funding sources
and mechanisms, with a view to contributing towards the goal of poverty
eradication and targeting women living in poverty;
"9. Invites all countries, the United Nations system, including the
Bretton Woods institutions, other relevant international organizations,
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