The international community and Governments need to promote a supportive economic environment to enable developing countries to achieve sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development and to establish mechanisms for the management and regulation of capital flows. Gender equity, equality and the empowerment of women must be an integral part of policy initiatives for sustainable development. Health sector reform and sector wide approaches must give priority to gender-sensitive reproductive health services that ensure universal access to quality care. Demographic factors should be integrated into environmental impact assessments and other planning processes. There is a need for better frameworks to analyse population, environment and poverty linkages.
Additional research is needed on the impact of environmental degradation on health, especially.
Countries emerging from conflicts and crises 47. Countries emerging from crises should receive special financial and technical assistance. Financial resources 48. In order to achieve the ICPD goals, countries need to redouble their efforts to mobilize the resources needed to implement the costed package of an integrated population and reproductive health programme defined in the Programme of Action and to use existing resources effectively and efficiently. In view of the increasing migration at the global, regional and national levels, the root causes of migration and the conditions of migrants should be documented.