A/RES/71/241 Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome 3 and the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 4 Taking note of the ongoing efforts to implement the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, 5 adopted in May 2011 at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 6 adopted in September 2014 at the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, and the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 7 adopted in November 2014 at the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, and recognizing that many middle-income countries still face significant challenges in achieving sustainable development and the need for, inter alia, improved coordination and better and focused support of the United Nations development system, Reaffirming the importance of supporting Agenda 2063 of the African Union, as well as its first 10-year implementation plan, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, and its continental programme embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and regional initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, Taking note with appreciation of Economic and Social Council resolution 2011/37 of 28 July 2011, entitled “Recovering from the world financial and economic crisis: a Global Jobs Pact”, of the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2012 of the Cou ncil, 8 which called for increased efforts to enhance coordination at all levels with a view to strengthening national development strategies, investing in productive capacities, helping to start and grow business and promoting opportunities for full and productive employment and decent work for all, and of the integration segment of the 2015 session of the Council, which was convened under the theme “Achieving sustainable development through employment creation and decent work for all”, and taking note of the outcomes of the integration segment of the 2015 session of the Council, including the proposal to launch a global network of stakeholders on employment creation and decent work for sustainable development, Recalling the Monterrey Consensus of the International Financing for Development 9 and the Doha Declaration on Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of Consensus, 10 Conference on Financing for Conference on the Monterrey _______________ 3 Resolution 60/1. Resolution 66/288, annex. 5 Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II. 6 Resolution 69/15, annex. 7 Resolution 69/137, annex II. 8 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/67/3/Rev.1), chap. IV, sect. F. 9 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 10 Resolution 63/239, annex. 4 2/14