A/RES/63/153 3. Recognizes the importance of supportive legislative and fiscal frameworks for the growth and development of volunteerism, and encourages Governments to enact such measures; Welcomes the work of Governments, the United Nations system and other 4. stakeholders to create a supportive environment for the promotion of volunteerism; 5. Takes note of the actions by Governments to support volunteerism, and reiterates its call upon them to continue such action; 6. Acknowledges the importance of civil society organizations for the promotion of volunteerism, and in that respect recognizes that strengthening the dialogue and interaction between civil society and the United Nations contributes to the expansion of volunteerism; Encourages Governments to establish partnerships with civil society in 7. order to build up volunteer potential at the national level, given the important contribution that volunteerism makes to the fulfilment of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration; 2 1F 8. Welcomes the expanding involvement of the private sector in support of volunteerism, and encourages Governments to support this trend; 9. Invites Governments to mobilize and support the research community globally to carry out more studies on the subject of volunteerism, in partnership with civil society, in order to provide sound knowledge as a foundation for policies and programmes; 10. Recognizes that greater efforts are needed to ensure that climate change and the environment feature on the volunteerism agenda of Governments and the United Nations; 11. Calls for the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to integrate volunteerism in its various forms into their policies, programmes and reports, and encourages the recognition and inclusion of volunteer contributions in future United Nations and other relevant international conferences; 12. Reaffirms its recognition of the work of the United Nations Volunteers programme as the focal point for the follow-up to the International Year of Volunteers, and requests it to continue to raise awareness of the contribution of volunteerism to peace and development, to act as a convener on the subject for the various interested stakeholders, to make available networking and reference resources and to provide technical cooperation to developing countries, upon their request; 13. Invites the Commission for Social Development to consider “volunteerism for development” in the context of its theme of social integration at its forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions, in 2009 and 2010 respectively; 14. Decides that, on or around 5 December 2011, the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, two plenary meetings of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly shall be devoted to follow-up to the International Year and the commemoration of its tenth anniversary, under the item entitled “Social development”; _______________ 2 2 See resolution 55/2.