governments also confirmed their resolve to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty hunger and disease and to promote sustainable development general assembly resolution the conference of the parties to the united nations framework convention on climate change at its eighteenth session in adopted a decision to promote the goal of gender balance in the bodies of and delegations to the sessions of the conference of the parties and to include gender and climate change as a standing item on the agenda of the conference see fccccp add decision cp the resolution also called upon governments to support women smallholder farmers by facilitating their access to extension and financial services agricultural inputs and land water sanitation and irrigation markets and innovative technologies in resolution on women in development adopted at the same session the assembly encouraged governments to take measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work at its fiftyeighth session the commission urged governments to promote the full and equal participation of women and men as agents and beneficiaries of peoplecentred sustainable development see e