Integrating volunteering in the next decade A/RES/67/138 11. Requests Member States and the United Nations system to work together with other volunteer-involving organizations to support efforts to enhance the security and protection of volunteers; 12. Encourages Member States, in cooperation with the international community and civil society, to promote volunteerism in all segments of society, recognizing the benefits of diverse life experiences to volunteerism, and to incorporate volunteerism into education curricula for all ages and into school-community engagements; 13. Requests the United Nations Volunteers to continue their efforts to promote volunteerism, including through the integration of volunteerism in peace and development as well as the development of innovative recruitment modalities, such as online volunteering; 14. Calls upon organizations in the United Nations system to continue to assist in the promotion of the United Nations Volunteers and upon development partners and all Member States in a position to do so to increase funding to the Special Voluntary Fund to conduct research and training, to undertake pilot innovations and to explore other funding modalities; 15. Emphasizes that volunteerism offers valuable opportunities for youth engagement and leadership to contribute to the development of peaceful and inclusive societies, while also allowing young people to acquire skills, build their capacities and increase their employability; 16. Urges the United Nations Volunteers and other relevant United Nations organizations to promote a youth volunteer programme, called for in the five-year action agenda of the Secretary-General, also urges all stakeholders to promote youth volunteering, including through the programme, in cooperation with the United Nations system, and invites Member States to consider voluntary contributions to the youth volunteering trust fund for the purpose of the programme; 17. Recognizes the important role played by women volunteers, inter alia, in meeting women’s needs, and encourages women’s leadership and participation in all forms of volunteering; 18. Reaffirms the need to encourage volunteerism in all its forms, which contributes significantly to the cohesiveness and the well-being of communities and of societies as a whole and which involves and benefits all segments of society, especially women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons; 19. Encourages Member States to support intergenerational solidarity and knowledge transmission through volunteering programmes; 20. Also encourages Member States to promote, where appropriate, further engagement of the private sector, through the expansion of corporate volunteering and employee volunteer activities, as well as increased coordination between the private and public sectors; 21. Encourages all stakeholders to recognize the importance of coordinating between the skills and the experience of the volunteers and the actual needs in the community, and emphasizes the need to bridge volunteering gaps; 22. Emphasizes that people-to-people relations are the core value of volunteerism, and encourages further efforts to build and strengthen networks among volunteers and all relevant partners at the national, regional and international 3/4