A/RES/73/140
Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
between Governments, communities, civil society, the private sector, academia, the
media and international actors, including the United Nations system,
Acknowledging also the existing contribution of the organizations of the United
Nations system in support of volunteering, especially the work of the United Nations
Volunteers programme around the world, acknowledging further the efforts of the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to promote
volunteerism throughout its global network, noting the work of other volunteer involving organizations at the local, national, regional and global levels, and
acknowledging the important role of civil society in facilitating volunteering,
Welcoming the publication by the United Nations Volunteers programme of the
report entitled 2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The Thread that
Binds – Volunteerism and Community Resilience, which presents new evidence on the
role of volunteerism, especially through equitable and inclusive compacts between
local volunteers and other communities, actors and organizations in strengthening
community resilience, voice and inclusion in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the plan of action to
integrate volunteering into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 3
2.
Recognizes the importance of integrating volunteerism, as appropriate,
into the planning for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 1 and encourages the United Nations system, civil society and the
private sector, in partnership with Member States, to support such efforts and promote
a conducive environment for volunteerism and volunteers to enhance the
sustainability of development results;
3.
Encourages Governments, in partnership with United Nations entities,
volunteer-involving organizations, the private sector, civil society, including
academia, and other stakeholders, as appropriate, to integrate volunteerism into
national development strategies, plans and policies, United Nations Development
Assistance Frameworks or equivalent planning frameworks;
4.
Encourages the meaningful participation and integration of all people,
including youth, older persons, women, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities,
minorities and other marginalized groups, into volunteer-involving programmes and
projects, with the provision of the appropriate means to leverage the full potential of
volunteerism;
5.
Commends the Member States that highlighted the contributions of
volunteers to the Sustainable Development Goals in their voluntary national reviews
for the high-level political forum on sustainable development held in 2016, 2017 and
2018, and encourages all Member States to increasingly cooperate with volun teerinvolving and civil society organizations, to include information on the scale,
contribution and impact of volunteerism in future voluntary national reviews and
engage volunteers for the monitoring of progress towards achieving the Goals at the
national and subnational levels and as part of wider citizen engagement;
6.
Encourages all Member States to invest in measuring the scale and
contribution of people’s voluntary efforts, in line with the nineteenth International
Conference of Labour Statisticians standard on volunteer work and the International
Labour Organization Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work, and to collect
and utilize high-quality data disaggregated by sex, age and disability to support and
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