The Kosovo Action Plan for the Achievement of Gender Equality (endorsed by the Government) needs to be funded and implemented.

The Marshall Plan was accompanied by partnerships for reconstruction in which the US and European recipient countries were on an equal footing.

The National Action Plan, which identified the activities and strategic measures for improving gender equality, had begun to yield results.

The Fiji Government was giving priority to the development of rural areas and funding a plan of action to encourage gender equality.

As to gender equality and the advancement of women, my Government has launched a national policy for the advancement of women and drafted a national plan of action for gender and development.

The Equal Employment Plan, adopted within the framework of a tripartite national commission on equal opportunities, had also yielded positive results.

The tasks of the committee include drawing up a strategic development plan to eliminate inequality between women and men and to integrate equality in the action plans, programmes and projects of state agencies.

To provide short term financing to a bank during any restructuring, the Commission s plan would create a European Fund, putting all banks on an equal footing.

The National Action Plan for Employment constitutes the main tool for planning and implementing employment policies. One of the guidelines of the National Action Plan is gender equality.

For instance, one important strategy to guarantee an equal access to public health for all is the 30 baht universal health care scheme.

The government is stimulating equal pay by means of the Equal Pay Action Plan, which was submitted to the House of Representatives of the States General in 2000.

Responding to a mandate from decision 4 CP.10, the LEG conducted a survey during the twenty second sessions of the subsidiary bodies mainly focused on issues relating to the upcoming implementation phase of NAPAs.

Nevertheless, it is concerned at the low percentage of the population who are covered by at least one health plan and at the inequality in access to health services.

Gender equality needs to be integral to every discussion and plan there should be a gender audit for each process, international agreement and institutional mechanism.

A plan of action had been established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, aimed at achieving social and economic equality of women and men through gender mainstreaming in all the Ministry's policies, programmes and plans.

There were chapters in the National Action Plan for Employment, for instance, dealing with male female employment, integration trends, improvement and support of family networks and use of the European Social Fund to achieve equality between men and women.

(a) Endorse the national action plan on gender equality, in compliance with the Beijing Platform for Action, and ensure that it is provided with sufficient resources across all sectors and fully implemented in consultation with women's civil society organizations

In that connection, the Women's Affairs Office, which is under the Prime Minster's Office, has been preparing a national plan of action on gender equality, which is also in line with the Beijing Declaration of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

The question of the global rise in inequality should pervade all aspects of the work of the United Nations, as it offered a vivid reminder of the urgency of concrete action across the entire development agenda.

Stimulating Equality

Office for Equality

Implementation of the gender equality and equity agenda is still overly dependent on resources provided by international partners because the State budget has not allocated enough resources to institutions promoting the advancement of women or to the gender policy framework.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

The unit is developing a national plan for implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action.

As far as the concepts of equality and equity were concerned, she informed the Committee that a mass media campaign, entitled Iguales en todos (Equal in Everything), had been launched with a view to promoting a culture of equality.

Equality or Estrangement

Happiness Is Equality

Technology and Inequality

Poverty and inequality.

Equality Before the Law

Equality of Access

Gender equality

States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.

Equality of the sexes

Plan Colombia

Technical cooperation

Plan of action

Plan of work

Action plan

International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security Madrid, 8 11 March 2005

In light of the recommendations of the Beijing Conference on the need for governments to formulate policies to take account of women's views, a feminine component has been included in the social and economic development plan in order to guarantee gender equality and the advancement of women.

The National Plan of Action states that equality between women and men is a matter of human rights and a condition for social justice and is also a necessary and fundamental pre requisite for equality, development and peace for the promotion of people centered sustainable development .

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

We encourage the measures, albeit still limited, that have been taken in promoting gender equality, including the filling of obvious gender gaps and the revisiting of legal issues, together with the development of an action plan for gender equality.