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protection and full realization of their human rights, including through the
implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 23 the Doha Declaration on Financing for
Development, 24 the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and its follow-up processes, including
by gender mainstreaming through, inter alia, targeted actions and investments in the
formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social
policies; through the adoption and strengthening of sound policies and enforceable
legislation and transformative actions for the achievement of gender equality and
women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels; by ensuring women’s full, equal, and
meaningful participation at decision-making and leadership levels in the economy;
by eliminating violence and discrimination in all its forms, including gender -based
violence; and by linking policies on economic, social and environmental development
to ensure that all people, in particular all women and girls living in pove rty, benefit
from sustained, inclusive, equitable economic growth and sustainable development;
(e) Take measures to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
including extreme poverty, and the feminization of poverty, which are major barriers
to women’s economic empowerment and sustainable development, and to ensure
access to health-care services and education for children, including girls, living in
poverty in order to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, by implementing
comprehensive and participatory poverty eradication strategies that address social,
structural and macroeconomic issues in order to ensure an adequate standard of living
for all women and girls, including through social protection systems, access to public
services and sustainable infrastructure;
(f) Create and sustain effective partnerships to support developing countries
in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme
poverty, and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
including by improving tax systems, promoting financial inclusion, including access
to financial services, enhancing capacity-building and productive capacity,
entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, encouraging the formalizati on and
growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises and promoting full and
productive employment and decent work for all, particularly women;
(g) Examine the impact of poverty, including extreme poverty and
multidimensional poverty, on different groups of women and girls, including those
facing various forms of discrimination, such as those living in poverty and experiencing
food insecurity and water scarcity, women who are unemployed or with low incomes,
women and girls who lack access to formal education, women and girls living in rural,
remote or maritime areas, women and girls who are refugees, asylum -seekers,
internally displaced, stateless and migrants, women and girls of African descent,
women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls, and older women;
(h) Promote, design and implement comprehensive, participatory poverty
eradication policies and invest in approaches that address systemic barriers and
structural root causes of gender inequality to ensure an adequate standard of living
for all women and girls and improve their living conditions, and enable women’s
empowerment and their equal participation in decision-making, including through full
and productive employment and decent work, safe and affordable housing and
shelters, comprehensive and universal social protection, social services, pub lic and
financial services and sustainable infrastructure;
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Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18-22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
General Assembly resolution 63/239, annex.
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