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particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the
challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development
in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
35. Urges Governments, with the cooperation of relevant entities, to develop
systems of social protection and to extend or broaden, as appropriate, their
effectiveness and coverage, including for workers in the informal economy,
recognizing the need for social protection systems to provide social security and
support labour-market participation, and invites the International Labour Organization
to strengthen its social protection strategies, including assistance to countries in
building social protection floors, and policies on extending social security coverage,
and also urges Governments, while taking account of national circumstances, to
focus on the needs of those living in, or vulnerable to, poverty and give particular
consideration to universal access to basic social security systems;
36. Requests the United Nations system to support national efforts to achieve
social development, in particular fostering social integration, at the local, national,
regional and international levels, in a coherent, coordinated and results-based manner;
37. Reaffirms the commitment to promote the rights of indigenous peoples in
the areas of education, employment, housing, sanitation, health and social security,
and also notes the attention paid to those areas in the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
38. 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;
39. Acknowledges the important role that the public sector can play as an
employer and in developing an environment that enables the effective generation of
full and productive employment and decent work for all;
40. 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;
41. Recognizes that the majority of poor people live and work in rural areas,
that priority should be given to agricultural and non-farm sectors and that steps
should be taken to anticipate and offset the negative social and economic
consequences of globalization and to maximize its benefits for poor people living
and working in rural areas;
42. Also recognizes the need to give priority to investing in and further
contributing to sustainable agricultural development and microenterprises, small and
medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship cooperatives and other forms of
social enterprises and the participation and entrepreneurship of women as means to
promote full and productive employment and decent work for all;
43. Reaffirms the commitments made in respect of “Meeting the special
needs of Africa” at the 2005 World Summit, 14 underlines the call of the Economic
and Social Council for enhanced coordination within the United Nations system and
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See resolution 60/1, para 68.
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