Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
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33. Urges the international community, including the United Nations system,
to implement the outcome documents relating to the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as established by
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the unfinished business of the
Millennium Development Goals, and the means of implementation, including the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda;
34. Also urges the international community, including the United Nations
system, to implement the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development 17 in support of the objectives of the
Second Decade;
35. Stresses that the impacts of natural disasters and conflicts are severely
hampering efforts to achieve poverty eradication, in particular in developing
countries, and calls upon the international community to give priority to addressing
them;
36. Calls upon the organizations of the United Nations development system,
including the funds and programmes and the specialized agencies, in accordance
with their mandates, to assign the highest priority to poverty eradication, and
stresses that efforts in this area should be scaled up to address the root causes of
extreme poverty and hunger;
37. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to support Member States, at their
request, in strengthening their macroeconomic policy capacity and national
development strategies so as to contribute to achieving the objectives of the Second
Decade;
38. Encourages greater inter-agency convergence and collaboration within
the United Nations system in sharing knowledge, promoting policy dialogue,
facilitating synergies, mobilizing funds, providing technical assistance in the key
policy areas underlying the decent work agenda and strengthening system-wide
policy coherence on employment issues, including by avoiding the duplication of
efforts;
39. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no country is left
behind in the implementation of the present resolution;
40. Recognizes the importance of addressing the diverse needs and
challenges faced by countries in special situations, in particular African countries,
the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island
developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing middle -income
countries, and therefore requests the United Nations development system, the
international financial institutions, regional organizations and other stakeholders to
ensure that the diverse and specific development needs of middle -income countries
are appropriately considered and addressed, in a tailored fashion, in their relevant
strategies and policies, with a view to promoting a coherent and comprehensive
approach towards individual countries;
41. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-first session a report, including a review of the progress made by the
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