Integrating volunteering into peace and development:
the plan of action for the next decade and beyond
A/RES/70/129
recognize and integrate the role of volunteers into disaster risk management, as
appropriate;
7.
Urges Governments and all other stakeholders to facilitate volunteer
action in poverty eradication and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods,
recognizing the role that volunteers can play in improving access to employment,
education, health care, social protection and public goods through engagement in
participatory planning, implementation and monitoring, as appropriate;
8.
Urges Governments and all related stakeholders to incorporate
volunteerism into gender mainstreaming strategies, recognizing that peer -to-peer
informal volunteering can help to reduce violence against women and girls,
contribute to the achievement of gender equality, empower women and girls and
strengthen their civic and political participation and leadership;
9.
Invites Member States to mobilize and support the research community
globally to carry out more studies on the subject of volunteerism, including
collecting data disaggregated by gender, age and disability, in partnership with civil
society, in order to provide sound knowledge as a foundation for policies and
programmes;
10. Encourages Member States to support intergenerational solidarity and
knowledge transmission through volunteering progra mmes;
11. Recognizes the importance of information and communications
technologies in expanding innovative forms of volunteering, and encourages
Governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to support United Nations
online volunteering that provides inclusive technology-enabled global platforms,
especially for those who are marginalized or in remote locations;
12. Requests Member States and the United Nations system to work together
with volunteer-involving organizations to support efforts to enhance the protection,
security and well-being of volunteers, calls upon States to create and maintain, in
law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment for volunteers, and encourages
the adoption of good practices in the promotion, facilitation and, where applicable,
management of volunteerism;
13. Requests Member States to give full consideration to the plan of action to
integrate volunteering into peace and development policies and programmes for the
next decade and beyond, and calls upon Governme nts, the United Nations system,
multilateral organizations, civil society, the private sector, academia and volunteer involving organizations to support, as appropriate, the institutional and resource
arrangements set out therein, while recognizing that in the case of the United
Nations system this will be done through voluntary contributions;
14. Invites the collaboration of the United Nations Volunteers programme
and other organizations, such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies, in jointly organizing a global technical meeting in 2020 to
further strengthen the engagement and contributions of volunteers with regard to the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
15. Recognizes the United Nations Volunteers programme as the appropriate
United Nations entity to support the implementation of the plan of action, and
expects the programme to coordinate the work to consolidate and disseminate good
practices and lessons learned, promote successful volunteer actions and ensure t hat
the differentiated impact of volunteers on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development is documented as part of regular national policy,
planning and implementation practices;
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