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continued mobilization of additional domestic and international resources, as
appropriate;
16. Encourages States to consider policies consistent with the International
Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and
their obligations under all relevant ratified conventions of the International Labour
Organization, and recalls the importance of promoting decent work for all and of
increasing quality jobs, including through measures aimed at ensuring occupational
health and safety and through working relationships based on effective social
dialogue;
17. Stresses that human resources development strategies should include
measures aimed at reducing unemployment and underemployment among young men
and women and the long-term unemployed, who have been disproportionately
affected by slow growth in jobs recovery, and to integrate underutilized human
resources into the labour market through policies that promote skills developme nt and
productivity and reduce barriers to employment, including gender barriers, including
by providing incentives, as appropriate, for recruiting, retaining and retooling,
assistance in job-finding, job-matching and vocational and on-the-job training, and
by promoting, inter alia, youth entrepreneurship, noting in this regard the call for
action by the International Labour Conference in 2012;
18. Also stresses the need for Member States to retain and further enhance
national human resources by boosting job-rich recovery and promoting decent work,
including by adopting policies and incentives that enhance labour productivity and
stimulate private investment and entrepreneurship and strengthen the role of labour
administration and institutions in order to foster job creation, address the gender wage
gap, reduce occupational segregation and increase the participation of vulnerable
groups, including workers in the informal economy;
19. Emphasizes the need to address the interlinkages among human resources
development, energy and food security, agriculture and rural development, and
encourages countries to strengthen capacity in agriculture and rural development;
20. Encourages Member States to facilitate access to and apply
environmentally sound technologies, and welcomes the launch of the Technology
Facilitation Mechanism established in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, 3 based on a
multi-stakeholder collaboration among States, civil society, the private sector, the
scientific community, United Nations entities and other stakeholders, in order to
support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals;
21. Stresses that sustainable development is dependent, inter alia, on healthy
human resources, calls upon Governments to continue their efforts to strengt hen
national health systems, urges the further strengthening of international cooperation
in the area of health, inter alia, by considering the promotion of universal health
coverage and through the exchange of best practices in the areas of strengthening
health systems, access to medicines, expanding and transforming the health
workforce, recruitment, training and development of health personnel, transfer of
technology on mutually agreed terms and production of affordable, safe, effective and
good-quality medicine, and in this regard also stresses that international cooperation
and assistance, in particular funding, need to become more predictable and to be better
aligned with national priorities and channelled to recipient countries in ways that
strengthen national health systems;
22. Calls upon the international community, including the relevant entities of
the United Nations system, to support the efforts of developing countries to address
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