A/RES/68/226 Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) strengthening their macroeconomic policy capacity and national development strategies so as to contribute to achieving the objectives of the Second Decade; 35. Encourages greater inter-agency convergence and collaboration within the United Nations system in sharing knowledge, promoting policy dialogue, facilitating synergies, mobilizing funds, providing technical assistance in the key policy areas underlying the decent work agenda and strengthening system-wide policy coherence on employment issues, including by avoiding duplication of efforts; 36. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub-item entitled “Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 71st plenary meeting 20 December 2013 8/8