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2009 World Survey On The Role og Women in Development

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Autor: ONU
The 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development addresses the important theme of «Women’s control over economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance». The World Survey illustrates the importance of examining women?s access to economic and financial resources in a broad sense, including resources generated at national level through budgets, trade, and development assistance; financial services such as savings, credit, remittance transfers and insurance; employment; land, property and other productive
resources; and social protection.
There are significant development gains to be made in ensuring women?s equitable access to and control over economic and financial resources, including in relation to economic growth, poverty eradication and the well-being of families and communities. The impact of inequality in access to resources represents a global challenge with implications at individual, family, community and national level.
The World Survey makes a timely contribution in the context of the current financial and economic crisis. It points out the need for an appropriate gender-sensitive response to the crisis which minimizes the negative impacts and takes advantage of the opportunity to develop positive trends.
The United Nations must demonstrate leadership in identifying and systematically and effectively addressing discrimination against women in relation to resources. Appropriate responses will facilitate both achievement of gender equality and empowerment of women and economic growth and long term prosperity.
It is my hope that the World Survey will contribute to an improved understanding of gender equality implications of economic development and will guide the design of gendersensitive policy measures that will increase women?s access to and control over economic and financial resources. I commend it to a broad global audience.
In addition to its input to discussions on women and development in the General Assembly in October 2009, the World Survey also constitutes a contribution to the 15-year review of implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2010 and to the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial
Review, focused on gender equality and empowerment of women, in July 2010.

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