support for population and development activities into the most beneficial distribution of budgetary, human and administrative resources. We take note of the strong international consensus on the need to mobilize significant domestic and external financial re-sources and endorse the estimated resource requirements set forth in the Program of Action. Additional resources to population and development programs should be made available by shifting resources from defense expenditures.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Note the widespread multiple and spread effects and high investment efficiency of resources invested in the fields of population and development and affirm the need to pour human and financial resources strategically in population and development for the sake of stable and sustainable economic development in the Asian region.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Urge the donor community to strive to fulfill the agreed target of 0.7 percent of their gross national product for overall official development assistance, to earmark 50 percent of this share for women and gender- related activities as well as for population activities and to monitor the use of those resources. We also urge governments to honor the commitments made at previous international and regional conferences and to allocate the resources pledged under the respective action plans and programs.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Urge interested developed and developing country partners to allocate, on a mutual basis, 20 percent of official development assistance and 20 percent of the national budgets to basic social programs, especially by reducing military expenditures.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Urge international financial institutions to ensure that structural adjustment and economic recovery programs are conductive to realization of social justice and the direction of full consideration to and solution of gender equality and the needs of women,

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Emphasize the need to generate public support among constituents for mobilization and allocation of adequate domestic resources to support policies and programs on population, women and gender that will advance gender equality, promote social development and address pertinent women's empowerment and population issues with special attention to rural and peri- urban community population.

4. Roles of Parliamentarians on Population and Gender-Related Issues

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Urge governments to integrate gender perspectives into their development strategies, policies and programs, especially when they enact legislation on population and development activities.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; Try to enact legislation to enable governments to formulate and implement policies and programs to improve the legal, health, social and economic status and rights of women and to promote the equal involvement of men in reproductive health, child-rearing and household responsibilities.