Policy Planning and Research.
· The National Commission for the Integration of Women in Development needs to be strengthened with sufficient resources to enable it to develop a WID policy in order to ensure that gender issues are taken into account by policymakers and planners, and to coordinate efforts at all levels for the integration of women in development.
· Networks of governmental and non-governmental organizations should be encouraged and strengthened to promote the integration of gender issues into development activities.
· The national report prepared for the Fourth World Conference on Women should be widely disseminated.
· A gender-disaggregated data base should be established.
· Research is needed on the problems faced by female headed-households and on women's participation in decision-making
· The gender dimension should be taken into consideration in all Ministries.
Legal and Policy Reform.
· Resources and energy should be mobilized to facilitate the adoption of the new family code.
· Reforms should be promoted to remove restrictions to women's access to land, and to guarantee their access to the means of production.
· Discriminatory legislation in respect to wages should be removed.
· Legal literacy should be promoted.
· An inventory should be made of international and national documents which protect women's legal rights, and these should be translated into the national languages.
Access to Agricultural Resources and Services.
· Measures are needed to increase women's access to credit, household and production technologies, and land.
· Access to sustainable agricultural systems should be promoted.
· Mutual aid associations of women should be strengthened.
Source: Rapport national sur les femmes, l'agriculture et le developpement rural, 1994.
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