Observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2024 A/RES/79/150 megatrends, such as technological change, urbanization, migration, demographic change and climate change and their impact on families and their well -being, 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General; 2 2. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow -up processes and to develop strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening national capacities to address national priorities relating to family issues and to step up their efforts, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to implement those objectives, in particular in the areas of fighting poverty and hunger, to prevent the intergenerational transfer and feminization of poverty and ensure the well-being of all at all ages in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 3. Calls upon Member States to give due consideration to advancing familyfriendly and family-oriented policy development for the full benefit of future generations; 4. Calls upon Member States, United Nations entities, within their respective mandates, and other relevant stakeholders, to offer support to family members, including working parents, and provide access to full and productive employment and decent work, as well as effective, inclusive, resilient and gender-responsive social protection systems and public services, including accessible and affordable childcare, expanded child and family benefits, paid parental leave and sick leave, improved flexibility of working arrangements and investments in parenting education; 5. Calls upon Member States, United Nations entities and relevant stakeholders to promote the preparations for the observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2024 at the national, regional and international levels through practical initiatives, including family -oriented policies and programmes responding to the needs of all families; 6. Invites relevant stakeholders, as part of the preparations for the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, to support research and awareness-raising activities at the national, regional and international levels on the impact of technological, urbanization, migration, demographic and climate change trends on families; 7. Encourages Member States, as part of the preparations for the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, to integrate a family -oriented approach into relevant policymaking; 8. Invites Member States and relevant stakeholders, as part of the preparations for the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, within the area of technological change and its impact on families, to bridge the digital divide, including between developed and developing countries, as well as the gender digital divide, to enable equal access to risk-informed information, knowledge and communications, by taking concrete measures to promote equal access for all to digital training, capacity-building, through equal access to information and communications technologies, mobile devices and the Internet, so as to promote their empowerment and digital literacy, and to improve access to the Internet, higher-speed Internet and digital devices for families, especially those in vulnerable situations, invest in the digital literacy skills of all family members, invest in parenting education, including through the use of technology, as a valuable preventive strategy against cyberbullying and violence against children in digital contexts and for reducing child neglect, and support the healthy development of children, as part of __________________ 2 24-24138 A/79/61-E/2024/48. 3/8