A/RES/74/205
Financial inclusion for sustainable development
financial and digital literacy and effective consumer protection for the poorest and
most vulnerable, including for women, young people, rural residents and migrants;
10. Also acknowledges the efforts and actions on financial inclusion for
sustainable development undertaken by a wide range of stakeholders working in
partnership, such as the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, the Bette r Than Cash
Alliance, the Special Advocate of the Secretary-General for Inclusive Finance for
Development and the Group of 20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, urges
them to engage in an inclusive and transparent manner with Member States in thei r
work, in order to ensure that their initiatives complement or strengthen the United
Nations system, including the United Nations Capital Development Fund and the
regional commissions, and encourages enhanced coordination and cooperation with
the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development;
11. Encourages the international community, including Member States, and
all relevant stakeholders, including the entities of the United Nations system,
international financial institutions, other intergovernmental bodies, regional and
national development banks, domestic financial institutions, credit unions,
multi-stakeholder partnerships and relevant non-governmental organizations, as
appropriate, to further develop financial literacy and financial educatio n programmes
that include an emphasis on the impact of finance on sustainable development, as
appropriate, in order to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills
needed to access financial services, in particular women and girls, farmers and those
working in micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises;
12. Encourages Member States and all relevant stakeholders, as appropriate,
in the context of a renewed and strengthened Global Partnership for Sustainable
Development, led by Governments, to further efforts to reduce the transaction costs
of migrant remittances to less than 3 per cent by 2030 and eliminate remittance
corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent by 2030, considering that there was no
improvement in 2018 and that the global average is still about 7 per cent, to support
national authorities in addressing the most significant obstacles to the continued flow
of remittances, such as the trend of banks withdrawing services, and to work towards
expanding access to and the volume of remittances through regulated and transparent
channels, and in this regard highlights the potential of financial technology services
to offer alternative channels and reduce remittance costs;
13. Looks forward to the continuing consideration of financial inclusion in the
forthcoming reports of the Inter-Agency Task Force on financing for sustainable
development, as appropriate and in accordance with existing mandates, as well as in
the annual report of the Secretary-General on progress towards the achievement of
the Sustainable Development Goals, and to the further consideration of financial
inclusion for sustainable development at the 2020 Economic and Social Council
forum on financing for development follow-up;
14. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development to leave no one behind and commit to taking more tangible
steps to support people in vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and
to reach the furthest behind first;
15. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-sixth session,
under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled
“Financial inclusion for sustainable development”.
52nd plenary meeting
19 December 2019
4/4
19-22418