A/RES/50/104 Page 2 Recognizing that the informal sector is a major source of entrepreneurship and employment for women in many developing countries, Noting the importance of the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in facilitating the advancement of women in development, 1. Welcomes the adoption of the Beijing Declaration 1/ and Platform for Action 2/ by the Fourth World Conference on Women; 2. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the effective mobilization and integration of women in development; 3/ 3. Calls for the urgent implementation of the Platform for Action adopted at Beijing as well as the relevant provisions contained in the outcome of all other major United Nations conferences and summits; 4. Stresses that a favourable and conducive international and national economic and financial environment and a positive investment climate are necessary for the effective integration of women in development; 5. Also 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. Calls upon all Governments and all actors of society to implement the commitment made in Beijing to create an enabling environment through, inter alia, removing discriminatory barriers and ensuring the full and equal participation of women in economic activities through, inter alia, the adoption of gender-sensitive policies and legal measures and the provision of other necessary structures; 7. Urges all Governments to ensure women’s equal rights and access to economic resources, and to increase women’s access 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; 8. Urges Governments to develop and promote methodologies for incorporating a gender perspective into all aspects of policy-making, including economic policy-making; 9. Calls upon the United Nations system, in particular its funds and programmes and specialized agencies, and all other relevant organizations to promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming gender perspective in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policies and programmes; 10. Urges the international community, the United Nations system and other relevant organizations to give priority to assisting developing 1/ A/CONF.177/20, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 2/ Ibid., annex II. 3/ A/50/399. /...