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Draft Platform for Action
B. Unequal access to and inadequate educational opportunities
Strategic objective B.6. [To promote lifelong learning [educational processes] for girls and women]

Actions to be taken

90. By Governments, educational institutions and communities:

(a) Ensure the availability of a broad range of educational and training programmes that lead to ongoing acquisition by women and girls of the knowledge and skills required for living in, contributing to and benefiting from, their communities and nations;

(b) Provide support for child care and other services to enable mothers to continue their schooling;

(c) Create flexible education, training and retraining programmes for lifelong learning that facilitate transitions between women's activities at all stages of their lives.