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CHAPTER VI. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

This section notes that financial and human resources have been generally insufficient for the advancement of women and calls for political commitment to make available human and financial resources for the empowerment of women. National, regional and international level actions are identified and include: review of how women benefit from public-sector expenditures; mobilization of resources from regional development banks; 0.7 percent of GNP for ODA; and an invitation to developed and developing country partners to mutually consent to allocate 20% of ODA and 20% of the national budget, respectively, to social programmes, taking into account a gender perspective.

Bracketed references include: mobilization of additional public and private resources, including from innovative sources of funding; feminist associations; funding mobilization by regional commissions; outcomes of previous summits and conferences regarding debt management; doubling the resources targeted towards eliminating disparities between women and men; paragraphs regarding INSTRAW and UNIFEM; and mobilization of resources from within the UN regular budget.