Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
A/RES/70/210
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which
it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to
working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030, its
recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including
extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement
for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development
in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and
integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium
Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Recalling that this new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, inter alia,
acknowledges the importance of making cities and human settlements inclusive,
safe, resilient and sustainable,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership an d solidarity,
Recalling that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda acknowledges, inter alia, that
expenditures and investments in sustainable development are being devolved to the
subnational level, which often lacks adequate technical and technological capacity,
financing and support, and recalling also the commitment therein to scaling up
international cooperation to strengthen the capacities of municipalities and other
local authorities,
Reiterating the importance of the
stakeholders, including local authorities,
urbanization and settlements, and stressing
participation is balanced, taking into account
of the participants,
wide participation of all relevant
in the promotion of sustainable
the importance of ensuring that such
the type, the dimension and the region
Taking note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations
Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) on its twenty-fifth session, held from
17 to 23 April 2015, 4 and its resolutions contained therein, in particular resolution
25/1, 5 in which the Governing Council encouraged member States, among other
things, to consider the important role that sustainable urbanization and human
settlements can play as a key driver of sustainable development in their national and
subnational development plans,
Stressing the importance of inclusiveness within the United Nations
development system and that no country is left behind in the implementation of the
present resolution,
Recalling its resolution 67/148 of 20 December 2012, in which it called upon
the United Nations system, including the funds and programmes and the specialized
agencies, to increase efforts to fully mainstream a gender perspective into all issues
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/70/8).
Ibid., annex.