Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/68/135
36. 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;
37. 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;
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 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;
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 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;
41. 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;
42. 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;
43. Recognizes the need to pay necessary attention to the social development
of people in urban areas, especially the urban poor;
44. Also recognizes the need to give priority to investing in and further
contributing to sustainable development, including sustainable agricultural
development, and a financial infrastructure that provides access to a variety of
sustainable products and services for 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;
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