A/RES/69/234
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
34. Urges the international community, including the United Nations system,
to implement the outcome documents relating to the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;
35. Also urges the international community, including the United Nations
system, to implement the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development14 in support of the objectives of the
Second Decade;
36. Stresses that the impacts of natural disasters and conflicts are severely
hampering efforts to achieve poverty eradication, in particular in developing
countries, and calls upon the international community to give priority to addressing
them;
37. Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations development system,
including the funds, programmes and specialized agencies, in accordance with their
mandates, to assign the highest priority to poverty eradication, and stresses that
efforts in this area should be scaled up to address the root causes of extreme poverty
and hunger;
38. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to support Member States, at their
request, in strengthening their macroeconomic policy capacity and national
development strategies so as to contribute to achieving the objectives of the Second
Decade;
39. 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;
40. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth 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 seventieth session a report on the implementation of
the present resolution.
75th plenary meeting
19 December 2014
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