Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/69/143
36. Urges Governments, with the cooperation of relevant entities, to develop
systems of social protection that support labour market participation and address
and reduce inequality and social exclusion and to extend or broaden, as appropriate,
their effectiveness and coverage, including for workers in the informal economy,
invites the International Labour Organization to strengthen its social protection
strategies and policies on extending social security coverage, urges Governments,
while taking account of national circumstances, to focus on the needs of those living
in, or vulnerable to, poverty and to give particular consideration to universal access
to basic social security systems, including the implementation of social protection
floors, which can provide a systemic base upon which to address poverty and
vulnerability, and in this regard takes note of the International Labour Organization
recommendation on social protection floors;
37. Requests the United Nations system to continue to support national
efforts of Member States to achieve inclusive social development in a coherent and
coordinated manner;
38. Reaffirms the commitment to promote the rights of indigenous peoples in
the areas of education, employment, housing, sanitation, health and social security,
and notes the attention paid to those areas in the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
39. Recognizes the need to formulate social development policies in an
integral, articulated and participative manner, recognizing poverty as a
multidimensional phenomenon, calls for interlinked public policies on this matter,
and underlines the need for public policies to be included in a comprehensive
development and well-being strategy;
40. Acknowledges the role that the public sector can play as an employer and
its importance in developing an environment that enables the effective generation of
full and productive employment and decent work for all;
41. Also acknowledges the vital role that the private sector can play in
generating new investments, employment and financing for development and in
advancing efforts towards full employment and decent work for all, and encourages
the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises and cooperatives,
to contribute to decent work for all and job creation for both women and men, and
particularly for young people, including through partnerships with Governments, the
United Nations system, civil society and academia;
42. Recognizes that steps should be taken to anticipate and offset the
negative social and economic consequences of globalization, giving priority to
agricultural and non-farm sectors, and to maximize its benefits for poor people
living and working in rural areas, while paying special attention to the development
of microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly in rural
areas, as well as subsistence economies, to secure their safe interaction with larger
economies;
43. Stresses that more concerted efforts are required to boost smallholder
productivity in a sustainable manner, including scaling up public investments in
agriculture, attracting responsible private investment in agriculture, improving the
quality and quantity of rural extension services and ensuring that smallholder
farmers, in particular women, have access to the necessary resources, assets and
markets;
44. Recognizes the need to pay necessary attention to the social development
of people in urban areas, especially the urban poor;
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