E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 (b) Review, as appropriate, existing legislation, including electoral law, and remove or modify, as appropriate, provisions that hindered women’s equal participation in decision-making, and adopt positive actions and temporary special measures, as appropriate, to enhance women’s equal participation in decisionmaking processes at all levels; (c) Establish concrete goals, targets and benchmarks for achieving equal participation of women and men in decision-making bodies at all levels and in all areas, especially in areas of macroeconomic policy, trade, labour, budgets, defence and foreign affairs, the media and the judiciary, including through positive actions and temporary special measures, as appropriate; (d) Develop and fund policies and programmes, including innovative measures, to build a critical mass of women leaders, executives and managers, with the goal of achieving a gender balance at all levels and in all areas, in particular in strategic economic, social and political decision-making positions; (e) Establish the goal of gender balance in decision-making in administration and public appointments at all levels, develop alternative approaches and changes in institutional structures and practices, including gender action plans, which established concrete strategies and budgets for the achievement of consistent gender mainstreaming as a strategy for promoting gender equality objectives, in legislation and public policies, among others; (f) Ensure women’s full and equal participation and representation at all decision-making levels in all aspects of peace processes and in post-conflict peacebuilding, reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation processes; (g) Encourage greater involvement of all marginalized women in decisionmaking at all levels and address and counter the barriers faced by marginalized women in accessing and participating in politics and decision-making;48 (h) Ensure that gender perspectives were incorporated in development policies and programmes, and in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, to ensure that women and all other members of society benefited from development and that women were empowered to assume leadership positions; (i) Promote and strengthen international cooperation to accelerate the development process in which women played a key role and should be equal beneficiaries; (j) Introduce more effective measures aimed at eradicating poverty of women and improving their living conditions to promote the realization of their full human potential, and enable their advancement and their equal participation in decision-making; (k) Ensure that women and girls had equal access to education in all forms and that education was gender-sensitive, and promote educational programmes in which women and girls would be equipped with the necessary knowledge and prepared to participate equally in decision-making processes in all spheres of life and at all levels; __________________ 48 General Assembly resolution 58/142, para. 1 (k). 31