Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027)
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Agenda, while acknowledging that many implementation gaps remain, and stressing
the need for continued substantive deliberation on the implementation of the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda in the forum as the designated mechanism to follow up on the
financing for development outcomes,
Recalling its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system and its resolution 72/279 of 31 May 2018 on repositioning of the
United Nations development system in the context of the quadrennial comprehensive
policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system,
Welcoming the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
2015–2030 at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015, 11 and recognizing the
links between disaster resilience and poverty eradication,
Taking note of the adoption of the Nairobi Maafikiano on 22 July 2016, during
the fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
held in Nairobi from 17 to 22 July 2016, 12 reaffirming the role of the Conference as
the focal point within the United Nations system for the integrated treatment of trade
and development and interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology,
investment and sustainable development, and recognizing that trade and development
can contribute to the eradication of poverty and that the Conference therefore has a
role to play in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda,
Concerned at the global and multifaceted nature of poverty and inequality,
underlining the fact that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
including extreme poverty, and of hunger is an ethical, social, political, environmental
and economic imperative of all humankind, and in this regard recognizing that there
is a need to better understand and address the multidimensional nature of development
and poverty in a multifaceted and integrated approach,
Reaffirming that each country faces specific challenges in its pursuit of
sustainable development, that the most vulnerable countries and, in particular, African
countries, the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small
island developing States deserve special attention, as do countries in situations of
conflict and post-conflict countries, and that there are also serious challenges within
many middle-income countries,
Deeply concerned that poverty acts as a serious impediment to the achievement
of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and that the
feminization of poverty persists, stressing the importance of giving women equal
rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control
over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and
appropriate new technology, reaffirming that women play a critical role in
development, contribute to structural transformation and are key contributors to the
economy and to combating poverty and inequalities and that their full, effective and
equal participation in decision-making and the economy is vital in order to achieve
sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and
productivity, recognizing that the economic and social losses due to a lack of progress
in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are significant
and that it is therefore critical that our policies and actions are not just gender responsive but actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women ’s and
girls’ empowerment, and reaffirming that gender equality and the empowermen t of
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Resolution 69/283, annex II.
TD/519/Add.2 and TD/519/Add.2/Corr.1.
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