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Mobilizing resources
48. Promoting healthy lives, including good nutrition and control of infectious diseases,
providing quality education, protecting children from abuse, exploitation, violence and
armed conflict and combating HIV/AIDS are achievable goals and are clearly affordable
for the global community.
49. The primary responsibility for the implementation of the present Plan of Action and
for ensuring an enabling environment for securing the well-being of children, in which the
rights of each and every child are promoted and respected, rests with each individual
country, recognizing that new and additional resources, both national and international, are
required for this purpose.
50. Investments in children are extraordinarily productive if they are sustained over the
medium to long term. Investing in children and respecting their rights lays the foundation
for a just society, a strong economy, and a world free of poverty.
51. Implementation of the present Plan of Action will require the allocation of significant
additional human, financial and material resources, nationally and internationally, within
the framework of an enabling international environment and enhanced international
cooperation, including North-South and South-South cooperation, to contribute to
economic and social development.
52. Accordingly, we resolve to pursue, among others, the following global targets and
actions for mobilizing resources for children:
(a) Express our appreciation to the developed countries that have agreed to and
have reached the target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for overall official
development assistance, and urge the developed countries that have not done so to strive to
meet the yet to be attained internationally agreed target of 0.7 per cent of their gross
national product for overall official development assistance as soon as possible. We take it
upon ourselves not to spare any efforts to reverse the declining trends of official
development assistance and to meet expeditiously the targets of 0.15 per cent to
0.20 per cent of gross national product as official development assistance to least
developed countries, as agreed, taking into account the urgency and gravity of the special
needs of children;
(b) Without further delay, implement the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries Initiative and agree to cancel all bilateral official debts of heavily indebted poor
countries as soon as possible, in return for demonstrable commitments by them to poverty
eradication, and urge the use of debt service savings to finance poverty eradication
programmes, in particular those related to children;
(c) Call for speedy and concerted action to address effectively the debt problems
of least developed countries, low-income developing countries and middle-income
developing countries in a comprehensive, equitable, development-oriented and durable
way through various national and international measures designed to make their debt
sustainable in the long term and thereby to improve their capacity to deal with issues
relating to children, including, as appropriate, existing orderly mechanisms for debt
reduction such as debt swaps for projects aimed at meeting the needs of children;
(d) Increase and improve access of products and services of developing countries
to international markets through, inter alia, the negotiated reduction of tariff barriers and
the elimination of non-tariff barriers, which unjustifiably hinder trade of developing
countries, according to the multilateral trading system;
(e) Believing that increased trade is essential for the growth and development of
LDCs, aim at improving preferential market access for LDCs by working towards the
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