Policies in areas such as trade , national security , climate change , agriculture , fisheries , migration , investment , food security and taxation must be aligned with development cooperation needs ; policies that undermined development progress should be eliminated and those that contributed to it should be encouraged . For example , although the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ( UN-Women ) had been working to support rural agencies and capacity development , those efforts would fail unless trade issues were resolved so that women could compete under fair conditions .