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(h) Develop well-resourced educational and livelihood skills
programmes to reach girls who are not enrolled in formal education
programmes owing to specific life circumstances, inter alia, extreme poverty,
child labour, abuse or exploitation, trafficking, prostitution, armed conflict and
displacement, migration, early and forced marriage, pregnancy, motherhood
and disability;
(i) Ensure girls’ access to training that enables them to develop their
skills, capacities and expertise to exercise leadership, including tools, training
and special programmes necessary to become actors in public life, including at
the highest levels, addressing existing power differentials in society and the
need for different positive models of leadership;
(j) Ensure that young women and men have access to information and
education, including peer education, youth-specific HIV education and sexual
education and services necessary for behavioural change, to develop the life
skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection and reproductive
ill health, in full partnership with young persons, parents, families, educators
and health-care providers;
(k) Ensure that the rights of the girl child are fully integrated into all
peace and non-violence education, including on peacemaking, peacekeeping
and peacebuilding, which should be provided from the primary level on as a
means of instructing girls and boys in the prevention, resolution and
management of conflicts at the interpersonal, community, national and
international levels;
(l) Increase girls’ ability to attend school and extra-curricular activities
by investing in public infrastructure projects and quality public services, such
as transport, water, sanitation and sustainable energy, in order to reduce the
amount of time girls spend on everyday routine household maintenance tasks,
while also working to change attitudes that reinforce the division of labour
based on gender, in order to promote shared family responsibility for work in
the home and reduce the domestic work burden for girls;
(m) Promote and support increased access of girls to information and
communications technology (ICT), particularly girls living in poverty, girls
living in rural and remote areas and in disadvantaged situations, and enhance
international support to overcome the digital divide among countries and
regions, between men and women and boys and girls, as well as between
different social groups of women and girls;
(n) Create literate environments and societies, eradicating illiteracy
among women and girls and eliminating the gender gap in literacy, inter alia,
by intensifying efforts to implement effectively the International Plan of
Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade and integrating substantially
those efforts in the Education for All process and other activities of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well
as other literacy initiatives within the framework of the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;
(o) Allocate sufficient resources and provide technical assistance upon
request to developing countries in order to strengthen the capacity to provide
equal access to education and to monitor progress in closing the gap between
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