Women in Development

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99cWomen in development, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1996–2024

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What subjects does this mandate have?

14 topics

Development Assistance Entrepreneurship Financial Resources Gender Equality Gender Mainstreaming Informal Sector Land Legislation Microcredit New Technologies Social Security Socially Disadvantaged Persons Women in Development Women Workers Women's Education

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2004.

2004A/59/287/Add.1World survey on the role of women in development report of the Secretary-General : addendum : women and international migration
2004A/59/287World survey on the role of women in development report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

21 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the 1999 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization, Gender and Work;

Calls for the accelerated and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action2 and the relevant provisions contained in the outcomes of all other major United Nations conferences and summits, and in this regard expresses the hope that the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, which will be held from 5 to 9 June 2000, can take tangible and significant steps to enhance the effective participation of women in development;

Stresses that a favourable and conducive national and international environment in all fields of life is necessary for the effective integration of women in development;

Urges Governments to develop and to promote methodologies for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all aspects of policy-making, including economic policy-making;

Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities to generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty;

Urges all Governments to ensure women’s equal rights with men and their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition of women from the informal to the formal sector;

Recognizes the role of micro-finance including micro-credit in the eradication of poverty, the empowerment of women and the generation of employment and, in this regard, notes the importance of sound national financial systems and encourages the strengthening of existing and emerging micro-credit institutions and their capacities, including through the support of international financial institutions;

Requests Governments to ensure that the priorities of women are included in, and that women fully participate in, decisions on public investment programmes for economic infrastructure, technology, water supply and sanitation, electrification and energy conservation, transport and road construction and to promote the greater involvement of women beneficiaries at the project planning and implementation stages to ensure their access to jobs and contracts;

Stresses the need for assistance to enable women in developing countries, particularly grass-roots women’s groups, to have full access to and use of new technologies, including information technologies, for their empowerment;

Also stresses the need to ensure that women and girls have full and equal access to all levels of education, vocational training and retraining programmes in order to improve their employment opportunities;

Urges States to design and revise laws that ensure that women are accorded full and equal rights as men to own land and other property, including through the right to inheritance, and to undertake administrative reforms and other necessary measures to give women the same right as men to credit, capital, appropriate technologies, access to markets and information;

Requests Governments to ensure the full participation of women in decision-making and policy formulation and implementation at all levels so that their priorities, skills and potentials can be adequately reflected in national policy;

Calls upon Governments to promote, inter alia, through legislation, family-friendly and gender-sensitive work environments and also to promote the facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers;

Stresses the need for Governments and employers, as appropriate, to implement policies aimed at ensuring stability and security of work and to put in place social protection measures that cover temporary, part-time, informal sector and home workers, a majority of whom are women;

Calls upon the international community to make efforts to mitigate the effects of excess volatility and economic disruption, which have a disproportionately negative impact on women, and to enhance trade opportunities for developing countries in order to improve the economic conditions of women;

Urges the international community, the United Nations system and relevant organizations to give priority to assisting the efforts of developing countries to ensure the full and effective participation of women in deciding and implementing development strategies and integrating gender concerns into national programmes, including by providing adequate resources to operational activities for development in support of the efforts of Governments to ensure, inter alia, increased access of women to health care, capital, education, training and technology and full and equal participation in all decision-making;

Calls upon developed countries to strengthen their efforts to achieve, as soon as possible, the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for overall official development assistance and, where agreed, within that target to earmark 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of gross national product for the least developed countries, so as to assist the developing countries in implementing strategies to eradicate poverty and to promote development and gender equality;

Urges multilateral donors, international financial institutions and regional development banks to review and implement policies to support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reach women, in particular in rural and remote areas;

Calls upon the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies, including in the integrated follow-up to United Nations conferences, in accordance with agreed conclusions 1997/2 on gender mainstreaming adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1997;

Requests the Secretary-General to update the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development for the consideration of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session; as in the past, this survey should focus on selective emerging development issues that have an impact on the role of women in the economy at the national, regional and international levels;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the sub-item entitled “Women in development”.

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