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recognizing the need for social protection systems to provide social security and
support labour-market participation, invites the International Labour Organization to
strengthen its social protection strategies and policies on extending social security
coverage, and also urges Governments, while taking account of national
circumstances, to focus on the needs of those living in, or vulnerable to, poverty and
to give particular consideration to universal access to basic social security systems;
41. Requests the United Nations system to support national efforts of
Member States to achieve inclusive social development, in particular by fostering
the eradication of poverty, full and productive employment and decent work for all
and social integration, in a coherent and coordinated manner, and to promote
exchanges of good practices in this regard;
42. Reaffirms the commitment to promote the rights of indigenous peoples in
the areas of education, employment, housing, sanitation, health and social security,
and notes the attention paid to those areas in the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
43. Recognizes the need to formulate social development policies in an
integral, articulated and participative manner, recognizing poverty as a
multidimensional phenomenon, calls for interlinked public policies on this matter,
and underlines the need for public policies to be included in a comprehensive
development and well-being strategy;
44. Acknowledges the important role that the public sector can play as an
employer and in developing an environment that enables the effective generation of
full and productive employment and decent work for all;
45. Also acknowledges the vital role that the private sector can play in
generating new investments, employment and financing for development and in
advancing efforts towards full employment and decent work;
46. Recognizes that priority should be given to agricultural and non-farm
sectors and that steps should be taken to anticipate and offset the negative social and
economic consequences of globalization and to maximize its benefits for poor
people living and working in rural areas, while paying special attention to the
development of microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises,
particularly in rural areas, as well as subsistence economies, to secure their safe
interaction with larger economies;
47. Also recognizes the need to give priority to investing in and further
contributing to sustainable agricultural development and microenterprises, small and
medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship cooperatives and other forms of
social enterprises and the participation and entrepreneurship of women as means to
promote full and productive employment and decent work for all;
48. Further recognizes the need to pay necessary attention to the social
development of people in urban areas, especially the urban poor;
49. Reaffirms the commitments made in respect of meeting the special needs
of Africa at the 2005 World Summit, 15 underlines the call of the Economic and
Social Council for enhanced coordination within the United Nations system and the
ongoing efforts to harmonize the current initiatives on Africa, and requests the
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See resolution 60/1, para. 68.