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Integrating volunteering in the next decade
levels, including World Volunteer Web as a global networking hub, as well as new
technologies and social media;
23. Encourages Member States and other stakeholders to integrate
volunteering in disaster risk reduction, thereby reflecting the issues discussed in
the thematic debate on disaster risk reduction, held in New York on 12 April 2012
during the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, and in the World
Ministerial Conference on Disaster Reduction in Tohoku, held in Japan on 3 and
4 July 2012, which include the involvement of volunteers in planning, and the
importance of education, training and volunteer-based disaster response, including
voluntary evacuation;
24. Also encourages Member States and other stakeholders to integrate
volunteering in peacebuilding activities, thereby, inter alia, making more effective
use of volunteers, including international United Nations Volunteers, and reflecting
the importance of mobilizing and building the capacity of young people;
25. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
seventieth session, under the item entitled “Social development”, on the
implementation of the present resolution, including a plan of action to be developed
by the United Nations Volunteers programme to integrate volunteering in peace and
development in the next decade and beyond, to be submitted to the Assembly and to
be considered by Member States.
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