(g) Unequal access to education and training, health care and decent work; 7.  The Commission urged Governments and/ or, as appropriate, the relevant entities of the United Nations system, other international and regional organizations, including the international financial institutions, national parliaments, political parties, and civil society, including the private sector, trade unions, academia, the media and non-governmental organizations and other actors, to take the following actions: (h) Unequal access to opportunities, and unequal access to and control over resources, such as land, credit, capital, economic assets, and information and communication technologies; (i) Insufficient political will and resources; (j) Inadequate implementation of gender mainstreaming; (k) Insufficient national mechanisms for monitoring, evaluation and accountability; (l) Impact on women of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculo- sis and other communicable diseases; (a) Incorporate gender perspectives into all local and national planning, budgetary, monitoring and evaluation and reporting processes, and mechanisms relating to national development strategies, including strategies focused on the implementation of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, fully utilizing existing gender equality policies and strategies; (m) Armed conflicts, lack of security and natural disasters; (n) Slow and uneven implementation of commitments to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals; (o) Persistence of difficult socio-economic conditions that existed in many developing countries, which had resulted in the acceleration of the feminization of poverty; (b) Elaborate and implement comprehensive gender-sen- sitive poverty eradication strategies that addressed social, structural and macroeconomic issues; (p) Insufficient international cooperation in the area (c) Develop and implement effective national moni- of gender equality and empowerment of women in the context of poverty eradication and health, bearing in mind financing for development; toring and evaluation mechanisms at all levels to evaluate progress towards gender equality, including through the collection, compilation and analysis and use of data disaggregated by age and by sex and gender statistics, and continue developing and using appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators; (q) Prevailing harmful cultural and traditional practices; (r) Insufficient information and data and statistics disaggregated by sex; (d) Encourage and promote close cooperation between central authorities and local governments to develop programmes aimed at the achievement of gender equality, thereby granting equal opportunities for women and girls; (s) Insufficient progress in the promulgation of gender-responsive laws. 6. The Commission underlined that addressing such challenges at all levels required a systematic, comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach, with policy, legislative and programmatic interventions. (e) Elaborate and implement strategies and policies, including targeted measures in support of their obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, provide protection to victims and investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of such violence, and recognize that violence against women and girls 2