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training, and to ensure the participation of women, children and young persons in
those processes;
17. Calls upon States and other relevant actors to ensure the facilitation of
early access to education and training for children and adults in secure and friendly
environments in the aftermath of emergencies, including through the
implementation of specific related measures in early recovery initiatives,
peacemaking and peacebuilding processes, capacity-building strategies, the
participation of children and youth and the mobilization and prioritization of human,
technical and financial resources;
The importance of political will and financing
18. Reaffirms its commitment to supporting the efforts of developing
countries to ensure that all children have access to and complete free and
compulsory primary education of good quality, to eliminating gender inequality and
imbalances and renewing efforts to improve the education of girls, and to continuing
to support the efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the
Education for All initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through
the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national
education plans, and urges donors to honour their pledged contributions;
19. Calls upon States, as primary duty-bearers, to ensure the realization of
the right to education in all phases of emergency situations, in a manner that meets
the essential needs of the affected populations, recognizing the role of the donor
community and humanitarian agencies in assisting those efforts;
20. Calls upon all Member States, including donors, and invites the private
sector and all concerned individuals and institutions to continue to support diverse
humanitarian funding channels and to consider increasing their contributions to
education programmes defined in humanitarian appeals, including humanitarian
consolidated and flash appeals, based on and in proportion to assessed needs, as a
means of ensuring adequate, timely, predictable, flexible and needs-based resources;
Follow-up
21. Requests the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, in close
cooperation with all relevant stakeholders, including Governments, United Nations
agencies and programmes, civil society and other relevant United Nations mandate
holders, to include in his next interim report to the General Assembly at its sixtysixth session an update to his report on the right to education in emergencies, in
order to identify gaps and remaining challenges in ensuring the right to education in
emergency situations.
106th plenary meeting
9 July 2010
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