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Calls upon the international community to assist developing countries in
the implementation of national human resources development strategies, and
encourages the international community to provide financial resources, capacitybuilding, technical assistance and transfer of technology, as appropriate and on
mutually agreed terms;
Calls upon the international community, including the entities of the
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United Nations system, to support the efforts of developing countries to address the
adverse effects of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases on
their human resources, in particular in Africa;
Stresses that sustainable development is dependent, inter alia, on healthy
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human resources, calls upon Member States to continue their efforts to strengthen
national health systems, urges the further strengthening of international cooperation
in the area of health, inter alia, through the exchange of best practices in the areas of
health system strengthening, access to medicines, training of health personnel,
transfer of technology and production of affordable, safe, effective and good-quality
medicine, and in this regard stresses that international cooperation and assistance, in
particular external funding, need to become more predictable and to be better
aligned with national priorities and channelled to recipient countries in ways that
strengthen national health systems;
10. Encourages efforts by Member States and the international community to
promote a balanced, coherent and comprehensive approach to international
migration and development, in particular by building partnerships and ensuring
coordinated action to develop capacities, including for the management of
migration, and in this regard reiterates the need to consider how the migration of
highly skilled persons and those with advanced education affects the development
efforts of developing countries;
11. Calls for steps to integrate gender perspectives into human resources
development, including through policies, strategies and targeted actions aimed at
promoting women’s capacities and access to productive activities, and in this regard
emphasizes the need to ensure the full participation of women in the formulation
and implementation of such policies, strategies and actions;
12. Stresses the important contributions of the public and private sectors,
respectively, in meeting national training and education needs to support the
efficient functioning of enterprises and matching the needs of a rapidly changing
economy, and encourages the integration of those contributions, including through
the greater use of public-private partnerships and incentives;
13. Calls for actions at the national, regional and international levels that
will give high priority to improving and expanding literacy, as well as science
proficiency, including by providing tertiary, technical-vocational and adult
education, and stresses the need to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys
and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and will
have equal access to all levels of education;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session a report that reviews lessons learned from the global financial
and economic crisis on the requirements for human resources development to help
countries to prevent and overcome the negative effects of crises and progress
towards a more sustainable path of development;
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