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developed countries, and encourages developing countries to build on the progress
achieved in ensuring that official development assistance is used effectively to help
to meet development goals and targets;
31. Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of resources for social
development by the initiatives on a voluntary basis taken by groups of Member
States based on innovative financing mechanisms, including those that aim to
provide further drug access at affordable prices to developing countries on a
sustainable and predictable basis, such as the International Drug Purchase Facility,
UNITAID, as well as other initiatives, such as the International Finance Facility for
Immunisation, and notes the New York Declaration of 20 September 2004, which
launched the Action against Hunger and Poverty initiative and called for further
attention to raise funds urgently needed to help meet the Millennium Development
Goals and to complement and ensure long-term stability and predictability to
foreign aid;
32. Reaffirms that social development requires the active involvement of all
actors in the development process, including civil society organizations,
corporations and small businesses, and that partnerships among all relevant actors
are increasingly becoming part of national and international cooperation for social
development, and also reaffirms that, within countries, partnerships among the
Government, civil society and the private sector can contribute effectively to the
achievement of social development goals;
33. Underlines the responsibility of the private sector, at both the national
and the international levels, including small and large companies and transnational
corporations, regarding not only the economic and financial but also the
development, social, gender and environmental implications of their activities, their
obligations towards their workers and their contributions to achieving sustainable
development, including social development, and emphasizes the need to take
concrete actions on corporate responsibility and accountability, including through
the participation of all relevant stakeholders, inter alia, for the prevention or
prosecution of corruption;
34. Invites the Secretary-General, the Economic and Social Council, the
regional commissions, the relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of
the United Nations system and other intergovernmental forums, within their
respective mandates, to continue to integrate into their work programmes and give
priority attention to the Copenhagen commitments and the Declaration on the tenth
anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development, 11 to continue to be
actively involved in their follow-up and to monitor the achievement of those
commitments and undertakings;
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35. Invites the Commission for Social Development to emphasize in its
review of the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social
Development and the Programme of Action the increased exchange of national,
regional and international experiences, the focused and interactive dialogues
among experts and practitioners and the sharing of best practices and lessons
learned;
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 6 (E/2005/26), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/234.
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