A/RES/71/241
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
33. Notes with concern the continuing high levels of unemployment and
underemployment, including among young people and young women in particular,
recognizes that decent work for all remains one of the best routes out of poverty,
and in this regard invites donor countries, multilateral organizations and other
development partners to continue to assist Member States, in particular developing
countries, in adopting policies consistent with the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the
International Labour Conference at its ninety-eighth session as a general framework
within which each country can formulate policy packages specific to its situation
and national priorities in order to promote a job-intensive recovery and sustainable
development;
34. Urges Member States to address the global challenge of youth
unemployment by developing and implementing strategies that give young people,
including young women, everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive
work, and in this context stresses the need for the development of a global strategy
on youth employment, building upon, inter alia, the Global Jobs Pact and the call for
action by the International Labour Organization;
35. Recognizes that substantial and efficiently spent investments are needed
to improve the quality of education and in order to enable millions of people to
acquire skills for decent work, and takes note with appreciation of the report of the
International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, and the
recommendations contained therein, as appropriate;
36. Encourages the international community to support developing countries
in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including
extreme poverty, and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls, the poor and people in vulnerable situations, with a view to achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development
Goals, as established by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which
builds upon the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and addresses
their unfinished business, improving access to financial services, including
affordable microfinance and credit, removing barriers to opportunity, enhancing
productive capacity, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, encouraging the
formalization and growth of micro, small and medium -sized enterprises, developing
sustainable agriculture and promoting full and productive employment and decent
work for all, emphasizing the important role of national efforts aimed at bringing
workers from the informal to the formal economy, guided, as appropriate, by the
Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015
(No. 204), of the International Labour Organization, complemented by national
efforts on effective social policies, including social protection floors, and in this
regard takes note of the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202),
of the International Labour Organization;
37. Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty
in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, of implementing
nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including
social protection floors, and of achieving substantial coverage of the poor and the
vulnerable, and encourages Member States to continue to develop and implement
social protection floors based on national priorities, paying particular attention to
women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
38. Also stresses the importance of policies to address longer-term structural
issues, including structural constraints faced by women as economic agents , and to
remove any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the
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