E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 evaluate gender-responsive policies and programmes aimed at promoting women’s entrepreneurship, in particular to benefit women living in poverty, including through greater access to formal financial instruments, microfinance, microcredit, cooperatives, technological innovation and transfer, investments, knowledge and skills training, advisory services, access to markets, including through international trade, and facilitation of networking and exchanges; “10. Recognizes that global advances in information and communication technologies have created significant potential for facilitating women’s economic empowerment, and that realizing this potential requires efforts to increase women’s access to and effective use of such technology; “11. Encourages States, United Nations entities, academic institutions, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and other relevant actors, to promote research on the economic situation of women, including in the area of employment, and on the impacts of the financial and economic crisis, climate change, energy crises and the conditions of international trade, on the economic empowerment of women, in particular rural, indigenous and migrant women, in order to effectively inform related responses and policies; “12. Encourages States to continue to share good practices related to women’s economic empowerment, and urges donors and the international community to promote international cooperation, including North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation, for enhancing women’s economic empowerment; “13. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fifth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.” 98. At the 20th meeting, on 12 March, the representative of Colombia, on behalf of the sponsors, orally revised draft resolution E/CN.6/2010/L.5. 99. Subsequently, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, the Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Namibia, the Netherlands, the Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Uruguay and Zambia joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 100. At the same meeting, the Secretary stated that, in view of the extensive oral revisions to the draft resolution, the Secretariat reserved its position in respect of any potential programme budget implications to which its adoption might give rise. 101. Also at the 20th meeting, the Commission adopted draft resolution E/CN.6/2010/L.5, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. D, resolution 54/4). 102. After the adoption of the draft resolution, statements were made by the representatives of Cuba and Colombia, as well as by the observer for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 10-30576 75