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d) Pursuit of industrial development strategy;
e) Enhancement of the competitiveness of African economies;
f) Increased investment required for the development of infrastructure and
services of transport, telecommunications and energy;
g) Prudent management of natural resources and the environment;
h) Mainstreaming of gender into national development strategies and in
particular, addressing the persistent and high levels of poverty among
women through the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms
for Action;
i) Mainstreaming trade policy into national development strategies;
j) Promoting ICT and enhancing investment in the development of
physical and human capital, particularly in science and technology;
k) Investment in strengthening health systems including access to
reproductive and sexual health services to ensure sustained and longterm improvement in maternal, new born and child health;
l) Enhancing social development including by giving priority to improved
access and quality education, health and sanitation;
m) Combating the HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other diseases;
n) Designing and integrating social protection and social safety net
programmes within broader national social policy frameworks and
national development strategies; and
o) building of statistical capacity for policy and programme design,
implementation and monitoring.
4.
Mobilize additional domestic resources for financing of MDGs, thus CALL
on the private sector in Africa to contribute more substantially to
development on the continent and to efforts of meeting the MDGs in Africa;
5.
Include in the MDGs framework, transport targets and indicators adopted
by the African Ministers in charge of transport and infrastructure in April
2005 with a view to accelerating the achievement of the MDGs;
6.
Mobilize international support and strengthening partnership with the
international community. In this regard, we:
a) CALL ON the international community, particularly the United Nations and
our development partners to complement our efforts, in particular, to fulfill
the commitments that they have made in support for development in Africa,