A/RES/71/241
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
causes and challenges of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme
poverty, hunger and all forms of malnutrition, in the light of their negative impacts
on sustainable development, through integrated, coordinated and coherent strategies
at all levels, and calls upon donor countries in a position to do so to support the
effective national efforts of developing countries in this regard through predictable
financial resources and technical assistance on bilateral and multilateral bases;
10. Stresses the importance of public-private partnerships in a wide range of
areas, with the aim of eradicating poverty and promoting full and productive
employment and decent work for all and social integration, as appropriate;
11. Acknowledges the complexity of the challenge of poverty eradication,
and in this regard emphasizes that, in accelerating poverty eradication, the
organizations of the United Nations development system must be driven by national
priorities, with the development of national capacities in d eveloping countries
continuing to be a core area of focus, and operate in an integrated, coordinated and
coherent manner, through development programmes and projects that address
poverty eradication as their underlying objective, within their respective ma ndates,
in order to ensure that gains are irreversible, making full use of the interlinked and
mutually reinforcing pillars of the United Nations development system, and
encourages the use of diverse strategies;
12. Recognizes the role of the specialized agencies and United Nations funds
and programmes and regional commissions, including the International Labour
Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the
United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Industria l
Development Organization, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the United Nations Population Fund, the
United Nations Children’s Fund, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, the Economic
Commission for Africa, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean and the Economic Commission for Europe, in contributing to
international advocacy for eradicating poverty in all it s forms and dimensions,
including through education and training;
13. Also recognizes that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda provides a global
framework for financing sustainable development and is an integral part of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and complements it and helps to
contextualize its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and
actions, which relate to domestic public resources, domestic and international
private business and finance, international development cooperation, international
trade as an engine for development, debt and debt sustainability, addressing
systematic issues and science, technology, innovation and capacity -building, and
data, monitoring and follow-up;
14. Acknowledges that good governance at the national and international
levels and sustainable, inclusive, sustained and equitable economic growth,
supported by full employment and decent work for all, rising productivity and a
favourable environment, including public and private investment and
entrepreneurship, are necessary to eradicate poverty, achieve 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, and realize a rise in living standards and that corporate social
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