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Commission on the Status of Women
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session
14 – 24 March 2016
Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development
Agreed Conclusions (Advanced unedited version)
1. The Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and
the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth and twentieth
anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
2. The Commission reaffirms that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional
Protocols thereto, as well as other relevant conventions and treaties provide an international legal
framework and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms of all women and girls throughout their life cycle.
3. The Commission reaffirms that the promotion and protection of, and respect for, the human
rights and fundamental freedoms of women, including the right to development, which are
universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, should be mainstreamed into all policies
and programmes aimed at the eradication of poverty, and also reaffirms the need to take measures
to ensure that every person is entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic, social,
cultural and political development and that equal attention and urgent consideration should be
given to the promotion, protection and full realization of civil, political, economic, social and
cultural rights.
4. The Commission reaffirms the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls made at relevant United Nations summits and conferences, including the
International Conference on Population and Development and its Programme of Action and the
key actions for its further implementation. The Commission further reaffirms commitments to
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made at the United Nations summit for
the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, as well as the recognition of gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls in the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction, the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, the 21st session of
the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
and recalls the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment held on
27 September 2015 and the Meeting on Women and Peace and Security of the Security Council
held on 13 October 2015.
5. The Commission reaffirms that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome
documents of its reviews, and the outcomes of relevant major United Nations conferences and
summits and the follow up to these conferences, have laid a solid foundation for sustainable
development and that the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration
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and Platform for Action will make a crucial contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development that will leave no one behind.
6. The Commission acknowledges the important role played by regional conventions, instruments
and initiatives in their respective regions and countries in the achievement of gender equality and
the empowerment of women and girls, including for sustainable development.
7. The Commission welcomes the commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, recognizes that women play a
vital role as agents of development and acknowledges that realizing gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls is crucial to progress across all Sustainable Development
Goals and targets. The Commission stresses that the achievement of full human potential and of
sustainable development is not possible if women and girls continue to be denied the full
realization of their human rights and opportunities.
8. The Commission expresses concern that the feminization of poverty persists and emphasizes
that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is an
indispensable requirement for sustainable development. The Commission acknowledges the
mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of
all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and the need to ensure an adequate standard of
living for women and girls throughout the lifecycle, including through social protection systems.
9. The Commission reaffirms that the realization of the right to education contributes to the
promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, human rights, sustainable
development and poverty eradication. The Commission notes with concern the lack of progress in
closing gender gaps in access to, retention in, and completion of secondary schooling, which is
key to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the
realization of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as enabling other positive
social and economic outcomes, therefore all women and girls must enjoy access to lifelong
learning opportunities and equal access to quality education at all levels – early childhood,
primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as technical and vocational training.
10. The Commission recognizes that women’s equal economic rights, economic empowerment
and independence are essential to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. It underlines the importance of undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize
the equal rights of women and men, as well as girls and boys where applicable, to access economic
and productive resources, including land and natural resources, property and inheritance rights,
appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance, and women’s equal
opportunities for full and productive employment and decent work, and equal pay for equal work
or work of equal value. The Commission acknowledges the positive contribution of migrant
women workers for inclusive growth and sustainable development.
11. The Commission further recognizes that achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development requires the full integration of women into the formal economy, including through
their effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making
in political, economic and public life and through changing the current gender-based division of
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labour to ensure that unpaid care and domestic work is equally shared, and recognized, reduced
and redistributed.
12. The Commission recognizes that conflicts, trafficking in persons, terrorism, violent extremism,
natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, and other emergency situations,
disproportionately affect women and girls. It therefore recognizes that it is essential to ensure that
women are empowered to effectively and meaningfully participate in leadership and decision-
making processes, that their needs and interests are prioritized in strategies and responses, and that
the human rights of women and girls are promoted and protected, in all development efforts, as
well as in conflict, humanitarian emergencies and other emergency situations.
13. The Commission stresses the need to ensure that no one is left behind in implementing the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in this regard recognizes the challenges faced by
refugee women and girls and the need to protect and empower them, including in countries in
conflict and post-conflict situations and the need to strengthen the resilience of communities
hosting refugees, and underscores the importance of development support for those communities,
particularly in developing countries.
14. The Commission reiterates its concern over the challenge climate change poses to the
achievement of sustainable development and that women and girls, who face inequality and
discrimination, are often disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and other
environmental issues, including, inter alia, desertification, deforestation, dust storms, natural
disasters, persistent drought, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and ocean
acidification. Furthermore, the Commission recognizes, in line with the Paris Agreement, that
countries should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote, and consider
gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.
15. The Commission strongly condemns all forms of violence against all women and girls. It
expresses deep concern that discrimination and violence against women and girls particularly
against those who are most vulnerable, continues in all parts of the world and that all forms of
violence against women and girls, including, inter alia, sexual and gender based violence, domestic
violence, trafficking in persons, femicide, among others, as well as harmful practices such as child,
early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, are impediments to the full achievement
of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and the realization of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms of all women and girls, and to the development of their full
potential as equal partners with men and boys, as well as to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals.
16. The Commission while welcoming progress made towards gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, emphasizes that no country has fully achieved gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls, that significant levels of inequality between women
and men, girls and boys persist globally, and that many women and girls experience vulnerability
and marginalization owing to, inter alia, multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination
throughout their lifecycle.
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17. The Commission recognizes that gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development requires the acceleration of action on both recent and long-standing
commitments to realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the equal
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
18. The Commission reaffirms the importance of significantly increased investment to close
resource gaps for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
including through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including domestic and
international resource mobilization and allocation, the full implementation of official development
assistance commitments, and combatting illicit financial flows, to build on progress achieved and
strengthen international cooperation, including the role of north-south, south-south and triangular
cooperation, bearing in mind that south-south cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a
complement to, north-south cooperation.
19. The Commission stresses the urgency of full, effective and accelerated implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and recalls that the systematic mainstreaming of a
gender perspective in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is
crucial.
20. The Commission notes that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is of unprecedented
scope and significance. It is accepted by all countries and is applicable to all, and it will be
implemented within countries and at the regional and global levels, taking into account different
national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policy space for
sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, in particular for developing States, while
remaining consistent with relevant international rules and commitments. The Commission affirms
governments have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, at the national, regional and global levels, in relation to the progress
made.
21. The Commission welcomes the major contributions made by civil society, including women’s
and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’
and youth led organizations, in placing the interests, needs and visions of women and girls on
local, national, regional and international agendas, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and recognizes the importance of having an open, inclusive and transparent
engagement with them in the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
22. The Commission recognizes the importance of fully engaging men and boys as agents and
beneficiaries of change in the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls, and as allies in the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women
and girls, as well as in the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action and in the gender responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
23. The Commission, in order to continue working towards full, effective and accelerated
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which will make a crucial
contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, urges
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Governments, at all levels, and as appropriate, with the relevant entities of the United Nations
system, international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates and bearing in
mind national priorities, and invites national human rights institutions, where they exist, civil
society, including non-governmental organizations, inter alia, women and community-based
organizations, feminists groups, youth led organizations, faith-based organizations, the private
sector, employer organizations, trade unions, the media, and other relevant actors, as applicable,
to take the following actions.
Strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks
a. Consider ratifying or acceding to, as a particular matter of priority, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and their respective Optional Protocols, limit the extent of any reservations, formulate
any such reservations as precisely and as narrowly as possible to ensure that no reservations are
incompatible with the object and purpose of the Conventions, review their reservations regularly
with a view to withdrawing them and withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and
purpose of the relevant treaty, and implement them fully by, inter alia, putting in place effective
national legislation and policies;
b. Accelerate the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action and the outcome documents of its reviews and the International Conference on the
Population and Development and its Program of Action and the outcomes of its reviews as a
foundation for sustainable development, gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
girls, and compliance of States Parties with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional
Protocols thereto as well as other relevant conventions and treaties;
c. Implement all goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in a
comprehensive manner, reflecting its universal, integrated and indivisible nature, while respecting
each country’s policy space and leadership while remaining consistent with relevant international
rules and commitments, including by developing cohesive sustainable development strategies to
achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and by mainstreaming a gender
perspective in all government policies and programs at all levels;
d. Eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls through the development, where
needed, adoption and accelerated and effective implementation and monitoring of laws and
comprehensive policy measures; the removal, where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in
legal frameworks, including punitive provisions; and setting up legal, policy, administrative and
other comprehensive measures, including temporary special measures as appropriate, to ensure
women’s and girls’ equal and effective access to justice and accountability for violations of human
rights of women and girls;
e. Enact legislation and undertake reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, and where
applicable girls and boys, to access economic and productive resources, including access to,
ownership of, and control over land, property and inheritance rights, natural resources, appropriate
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new technology and financial services, including microfinance, and women’s equal opportunities
for full and productive employment and decent work;
f. Promote women’s economic rights and independence, women’s right to work and rights at work
through gender-responsive policies and programmes that promote decent work for all; ensure equal
pay for equal work or and work of equal value; protect women against discrimination and abuse
in the workplace; invest in and empower women in all sectors in the economy by supporting
women-led businesses, including by tailoring a range of approaches and instruments which
facilitate access to universal public services, finance, training and technology, markets, sustainable
and affordable energy and transport and trade;
g. Undertake all appropriate measures to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work by
prioritizing social protection policies, including accessible and affordable quality social services,
and care services for children, persons with disabilities, older persons and persons living with HIV
and AIDS, and all others in need of care, and promote the equal sharing of responsibilities between
women and men;
h. Promote a socially responsible and accountable private sector that acts in line with, among
others, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the fundamental principles and
rights at work of the ILO, and labour, environmental and health standards, as well as the Women’s
Empowerment Principles established by UN Women and the Global Compact, in order to achieve
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the realization of their full and
equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
i. Recognize the contribution of migrants, including women migrant workers to sustainable
development, acknowledge the need to eliminate violence and discrimination against women
migrant workers, and to promote their empowerment including through international, regional or
bilateral cooperation among all stakeholders, in particular countries of origin, transit and
destination.
j. Take concrete steps towards eliminating the practice of gender-based price differentiation,
whereby goods and services intended for or marketed to women and girls cost more than similar
goods and services intended for or marketed to men and boys (also known as the ‘pink tax’);
k. Urges governments to provide universal and equitable access for all to safe and affordable
drinking water, and adequate sanitation and hygiene, in particular in schools, public facilities and
buildings, paying special attention to the specific needs of all women and girls, who are
disproportionately affected by inadequate water and sanitation facilities and are at greater risk of
violence and harassment when practising open defecation, and have specific needs for menstrual
hygiene management; and to improve water management and wastewater treatment with the active
participation of women;
l. Recognize the critical role of women as agents of change and leaders in addressing climate
change, and promote a gender-responsive approach, the integration of a gender perspective and
the empowerment of women and girls in environmental, climate change and disaster risk reduction
strategies, financing, policies, and processes, towards achieving the meaningful and equal
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participation of women in decision making at all levels on environmental issues, and towards
building the resilience of women and girls to the adverse effects of climate change;
m. Ensure that the rights and specific needs of women and girls affected and displaced by conflicts,
trafficking in persons, terrorism, violent extremism, natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies,
and other emergency situations, are addressed in national and international plans, strategies and
responses; and ensure the participation of women and girls at all levels of decision-making in
emergency, recovery, reconstruction, conflict resolution and peace-building processes; provide
education for all, especially girls, to contribute to a smooth transition from relief to development
and address sexual and gender-based violence as an integral and prioritized part of every
humanitarian response; and in this respect, encourages the World Humanitarian Summit to give
due consideration to integrating a gender perspective into its deliberations;
n. Refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures
not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that impede the full
achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries;
o. Ensure the promotion and protection of the human rights of all women and their sexual and
reproductive health, and reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the
outcome documents of their review conferences, including through the development and
enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the strengthening of health systems that make
universally accessible and available quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care
services, commodities, information and education, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods
of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent
pregnancy, maternal health care such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care
which will reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery, safe
abortion where such services are permitted by national law, and prevention and treatment of
reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and reproductive cancers,
recognizing that human rights include the right to have control over and decide freely and
responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free
from coercion, discrimination and violence;
p. Promote and respect women’s and girls’ right to education throughout their life cycle at all
levels, especially for those most left behind, by providing universal access to quality education,
ensuring inclusive, equal and non-discriminatory quality education, and promoting learning
opportunities for all, ensuring completion of primary and secondary education and eliminating
gender disparities in access to all areas of secondary and tertiary education, promoting financial
literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal access to career development, training,
scholarships and fellowships, and by adopting positive action to build women’s and girls’
leadership skills and influence; adopt measures that promote, respect and guarantee safety of
women and girls in the school environment, and measures to support women and girls with
disability in all levels of education and training;
q. Mainstream a gender perspective into education and training programmes, including science
and technology, eradicate female illiteracy and support school-to-work transition through skills
development to enable women’s and girls’ active participation in economic, social and cultural
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development, governance and decision-making, and create conditions that facilitate women’s full
participation and integration in the formal economy;
r. Adopt, review and ensure the accelerated and effective implementation of laws that criminalize
violence against women and girls, as well as comprehensive, multidisciplinary and gender-
sensitive preventive, protective and prosecutorial measures and services to eliminate and prevent
all forms of violence against all women and girls, in public and private spaces, as well as harmful
practices;
s. Design and implement appropriate domestic policies at all levels that aim to transform
discriminatory social attitudes and gender stereotypes as well as to promote gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls;
t. Fully engage men and boys, including community leaders, as strategic partners and allies in
achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the elimination of all
forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls both in public and private spheres,
design and implement national policies and programmes that address the role and responsibility of
men and boys and aim to ensure equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men in
caregiving and domestic work, transform with the aim to eliminate those social norms that condone
violence against women and girls, and attitudes and social norms by which women and girls are
regarded as subordinate to men and boys, including by understanding and addressing the root
causes of gender inequality such as unequal power relations, social norms, practices and
stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination against women and girls, and engage them in efforts to
promote and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls for the benefit of
both women and men, girls and boys;
u. Recognize the important role and contribution of rural women and girls as well as local
communities to food security, poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and sustainable
development and commit to supporting their empowerment, and ensure rural women’s full, equal
and effective participation in society, the economy, and political decision-making;
v. Formulate and implement, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous
women and their organizations, policies and programmes designed to promote capacity-building
and strengthen their leadership while recognizing the distinct and important role of indigenous
women and girls in sustainable development; and prevent and eliminate discrimination and
violence against indigenous women and girls which has a negative impact on their human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and which they are disproportionately vulnerable to, and that
constitutes a major impediment to indigenous women’s full, equal and effective participation in
society, the economy, and political decision-making;
w. Take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, educational, employment and other
measures to protect and promote the rights of all women and girls with disabilities, ensuring their
full and effective participation and inclusion in society, and to address the multiple and intersecting
forms of discrimination they face;
x. Recognize the family as a contributor to development, including in the achievement of the
internationally agreed development goals for women and girls, that gender equality and women’s
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empowerment improve the well-being of the family, and in this regard stress the need for
elaborating and implementing family policies aimed at achieving gender equality and women’s
empowerment and at enhancing the full participation of women in society;
Fostering enabling environments for financing gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls
y. Promote gender equality and the empowerment of women by reaffirming the commitments
made in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and pursuing policy coherence and an enabling
environment for sustainable development at all levels and by all actors and to reinvigorating the
global partnership for sustainable development;
z. Reiterate the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the
formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies and
adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the
promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels;
aa. Support and institutionalize a gender-responsive approach to public financial management,
including gender-responsive budgeting and tracking across all sectors of public expenditure, to
address gaps in resourcing for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and
ensure all national and sectoral plans and policies for gender equality and the empowerment of
women and girls are fully costed and adequately resourced to ensure their effective
implementation;
bb. Take steps to significantly increase investment to close resource gaps, including through the
mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including public, private, domestic and
international resource mobilization and allocation, including by enhancing revenue administration
through modernized, progressive tax systems, improved tax policy and more efficient tax
collection and increased priority on gender equality and the empowerment of women in official
development assistance to build on progress achieved, and ensure that official development
assistance is used effectively;
cc. Urge developed countries to fully implement their respective official development assistance
commitments, including the commitment made by many developed countries to achieve the target
of 0.7 per cent of their gross national income for official development assistance to developing
countries and the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of their gross national income for official
development assistance to least developed countries, and encourage developing countries to build
on the progress achieved in ensuring that official development assistance is used effectively to
help meet development goals and targets and help them, inter alia, to achieve gender equality and
the empowerment of women;
dd. Strengthen international cooperation, including the role of North-South, South-South and
triangular cooperation, bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for, but
rather a complement to, North-South cooperation, and invites all States to enhance South-South
and triangular cooperation focusing on shared development priorities, with the involvement of all
relevant stakeholders in government, civil society and the private sector, while noting that national
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ownership and leadership in this regard are indispensable for the achievement of gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls;
ee. Implement macroeconomic, labour and social policies which promote full and productive
employment and decent work for all in order to benefit women and promote gender equality and
the empowerment of women as well as to enhance economic efficiency and optimize the
contribution of women to economic growth and poverty reduction, promote processes to develop
and facilitate the availability of appropriate knowledge and technologies globally, and increase
awareness among decision makers, the private sector and employers of the necessity of women’s
economic empowerment and their important contribution;
Strengthening women’s leadership and women’s full and equal participation in decision-
making in all areas of sustainable development
ff. Take measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation in all fields and
leadership at all levels of decision-making in the public and private sectors, and public, social,
economic and political life and in all areas of sustainable development;
gg. Take measures to ensure women’s full, equal and effective participation, including through
temporary special measures, as appropriate, and by setting and working to achieve concrete goals,
targets and benchmarks, including by providing education and training, and by removing all
barriers that directly and indirectly hinder the participation of women, and where applicable girls,
in decision-making roles in all sectors and at all levels such as lack of access to quality and
inclusive education, and training, as well as violence, poverty, unequal distribution of unpaid care
and domestic work, and gender stereotypes;
hh. Take measures to ensure women’s effective participation at all levels and at all stages and in
peace processes and mediation efforts, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping, peace
building and recovery, as laid out in relevant Security Council resolutions on women, peace and
security;
ii. Encourages States to recognize shared work and parental responsibilities between women and
men to promote women's increased participation in public life, and take appropriate measures to
achieve this, including measures to reconcile family, private and professional life;
jj. Promote a safe and enabling environment for all civil society actors so that they can fully
contribute to the gender-responsive implementation and follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development in line with the relevant provisions of the Agenda;
kk. Increase resources and support for grass-roots, local, national, regional and global women’s
and civil society organizations to advance and promote gender equality and the empowerment of
women and the human rights of women and girls;
Strengthening gender-responsive data collection, follow-up and review processes
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ll. Include a gender-responsive approach in national follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development taking into account, where applicable, the agreed global indicator
framework, and strengthen national statistical capacity, including by enhancing technical and
financial assistance to developing countries, to systematically design, collect and ensure access to
high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age and income and other
characteristics relevant in national contexts;
mm. Develop and enhance standards and methodologies at national and international levels to
improve collection, analysis and dissemination of gender statistics on, inter alia, poverty, income
distribution within households, unpaid care work, women’s access to, control and ownership of
assets and productive resources, participation at all levels of decision-making and violence against
women to measure progress for women and girls on sustainable development in the context of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
nn. Enhance technical and financial collaboration between countries, with the support of United
Nations entities, within their mandates, and the participation of civil society organizations as
appropriate, with the aim of collecting data and statistics to follow-up on and review the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development from a gender equality
perspective.
Enhancing national institutional arrangements
24. The Commission calls on Governments to strengthen the authority and capacity of, including
by funding where possible, national mechanisms for promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, at all levels, including to support the mainstreaming of a gender
perspective across all policies and programmes in all sectors of government in the context of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and promote the visibility of and support for these
mechanisms.
25. The Commission also calls on Governments to enhance coherence and coordination of national
mechanisms for promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, with
relevant government agencies and other stakeholders, where appropriate to ensure that national
planning, decision-making, policy formulation and implementation, budgeting processes and
institutional structures contribute to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of
all women and girls.
26. The Commission calls on the United Nations system entities within their respective mandates
to support States upon their request in their gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development.
27. The Commission recognizes its primary role for follow-up to the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action in which its work is grounded and stresses that it is critical to address and
integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls throughout national, regional
and global reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and
to ensure synergies between the follow-up of the Beijing Platform for Action and the gender-
responsive follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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28. The Commission calls on UN-Women to continue to play a central role in promoting gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls and in supporting Member States upon their
request, in coordinating the United Nations system and in mobilizing civil society, the private
sector and other relevant stakeholders, at all levels, in support of the full, effective and accelerated
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
29. The Commission recalls General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/163 and encourages the
Secretariat to consider how to enhance the participation, including at the 61st Session of the
Commission, of national human rights institutions fully compliant with the Paris Principles, where
they exist, in compliance with the ECOSOC rules of procedure.
30. The Commission affirms that it will contribute to the thematic reviews of progress on the
Sustainable Development Goals taking place at the high-level political forum and will exercise its
catalytic role for gender mainstreaming so as to ensure that follow-up and review processes benefit
all women and girls and contribute to the full realization of gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls by 2030.
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