(j) Reduce excessive military expenditures and investments for arms
production and acquisition, as is appropriate and consistent with national
security requirements, in order to increase resources for social and economic
development;
10. Calls for the implementation of the outcome of all other major United
Nations conferences and summits related to the eradication of poverty;
11. Calls upon States to undertake all commitments of the Copenhagen
Declaration on Social Development, 54/ taking into account commitments 2
and 5 and the linkages between them, in their efforts to eradicate poverty, and
also calls upon all relevant actors to implement promptly the actions and
measures for the eradication of poverty, as contained in the Programme of Action
of the World Summit for Social Development; 55/
12. Stresses the need to fully integrate a gender perspective into the
work of all thematic task forces relating to the eradication of poverty
established by the Administrative Committee on Coordination, as well as the
importance of establishing the proposed inter-agency committee on the follow-up
to the Fourth World Conference on Women;
13. Recommends that a United Nations system-wide effort be undertaken to
review existing indicators, strengthen gender impact analysis of the design and
implementation of economic reform programmes, develop complementary, qualitative
assessments, and standardize measures and promote their implementation, and
stresses that this effort will necessitate effective coordination;
14. Also recommends that the secretariats of the United Nations system,
including the Bretton Woods institutions, incorporate a coherent method of
including both the mainstreaming of the gender perspective and specific gender
programmes to achieve equality between women and men in the operational
activities, staffing and decision-making spheres of the system;
15. Stresses that the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods
institutions, should play a central role in enhancing financial and technical
support and assistance for developing countries, particularly African countries
and least developed countries, in their efforts to achieve the objectives of the
eradication of poverty and the full integration of a gender perspective into all
policies and programmes, as set forth in the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action, particularly the goal of the eradication of poverty;
16. Recognizes that the implementation of the Platform for Action in the
countries with economies in transition will also require continued international
cooperation and assistance, in support of national efforts;
17. Stresses the importance of using all available funding sources and
mechanisms with a view to contributing towards the goal of poverty eradication
and targeting of women living in poverty;
18. Calls upon States committed to the initiative of allocation of
20 per cent of official development assistance and 20 per cent of the national
budget to basic social programmes to fully integrate a gender perspective into
54/
Ibid., annex I.
55/
Ibid., annex II, chap. II.
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