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INFORMAL-INFORMAL II

The informal-informal group charged with completing consideration of Section H (mechanisms) and the new section on the girl child completed half of its task, but it also undertook additional work. The group worked Monday evening and Tuesday morning to finish consideration of Section H and then completed a third reading of Chapter V (Institutional Arrangements) Tuesday afternoon. The group expected to conduct a second reading of Chapter VI (Financial Arrangements) during the evening, after which it was to take up the girl child section.

In Strategic Objective H.3 (Generate and disseminate gender disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation), delegates added a reference to the collection and analysis of statistics that reflect problems and questions related to men and women in society. Delegates bracketed references to making participation in the informal sector "visible" and to "quantifying and valuing" remunerated and unremunerated work. A sub-paragraph regarding time-use statistics and satellite or parallel accounts of unremunerated economic contributions was bracketed. A reference to data collection on access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services was bracketed. Governments are now called on to use gender-sensitive data in "implementation of programmes and projects" as well as in policy formulation. Paragraph 148(bis) (multilateral and bilateral donor support to capacity building to measure unremunerated work) was bracketed.

In Chapter V, paragraph 187, which calls for changes in rules and procedures and the elimination of sexual harassment, is bracketed. In paragraph 190 (government responsibility for implementation), the invitation to governments to state their own commitments and to collect them in an annex to the Platform is bracketed. References to "feminist movements" remain bracketed. References to promoting women "with requisite qualifications" were deleted. In paragraph 203 (implementation), a reference to the Agenda for Peace and Agenda for Development is bracketed. A paragraph calling for a high-level post in the office of the Secretary-General is bracketed. In paragraph 207 (follow-up), a reference to "necessary resources and support" is bracketed. Paragraphs on the CSW, UNIFEM and INSTRAW are bracketed. A reference to NGO monitoring of implementation in paragraph 238 (role of NGOs) is bracketed.

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