African Union - institute and implement efficient national control and evaluation mechanisms at all levels for assessing the progress made towards gender equality (collection, analysis and use of data and statistics broken down by age and by sex, and clarification of appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators); - make effective the empowerment of women and ensure that an analysis of the genderspecific aspects guides the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policies and programmes, particularly in the areas of health, education and employment; - mobilize adequate funding for policies and development programmes concerned about gender equality; - effectively ensure for women and girls, and under conditions of equality, greater access to information and communication technologies; - ensure access of women to micro-credit and micro-financing programmes, which had proved to be efficient tools for empowering women b. Describe legal framework that ensures effective participation of women in the BSSED in relation to: - access to resources and their control; education and access to information; exercise of legal rights; popularization, in national languages of the Individual and Family Code and other texts relating to women‟s rights; and - organizational, human and financial capacities of structures in charge of the promotion of gender equality, within the private sector and the civil society as well. c. Provide evidence of the progress made with regard to the following trends: - participation and contribution of women in all sectors and spheres of competence; establishment of a statistical system on gender; promotion of gender at all levels of education and training; proportion of women occupying decision-making positions; Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament. any other indicator of gender disparity (e.g. disparities in salaries and incomes); provide conclusions of the national assessment reports on the situation of women (CEDAW, BEIJING, Declaration of Heads of State on Gender Equality and Situation of Women, the additional Protocol on Women‟s Human Rights). 87