A/71/358 and professional excellence. Countries should focus on fostering entrepreneurship through an overall lifelong learning framework. States, along with social partners and enterprises, should develop innovative approaches to technical and vocational education and training in order to respond to the diverse aspirations and needs of individuals and societies in a rapidly globalizing world. Mobilizing resources for the financing of lifelong learning 107. Lifelong learning requires greater financial support, and must be given full consideration in investment in education. Governments should partner with stakeholders and take necessary measures aimed at innovative financial schemes to fund lifelong learning activities and programmes, with a focus on the active participation of the corporate sector and employers as well as employees in schemes devised for that purpose. Recognizing information and communications technologies as support for lifelong learning processes 108. Recognizing the importance of ICTs as support for lifelong learning processes, Governments must foster open education resources that will allow students to draw upon online educational materials. They should work towards developing minimum quality standards. Care should be taken to ensure that technology does not exacerbate inequities or entail abusive practices. Fraudulent practices in online learning and certification must be punishable by law. Adopting national qualifications frameworks and accreditation standards 109. States should develop national qualifications frameworks and ensure that all national education and training providers are subject to accreditation that measures the quality of education and training provided, according to national standards, with a focus on improving the competence and skills of learners. National qualifications frameworks must be revised to recognize and validate new skills and competencies acquired in the process of lifelong learning. Operationalizing the normative framework for lifelong learning: advisory services by United Nations entities 110. UNESCO and ILO should reinforce their activities for operationalizing the normative framework for lifelong learning and provide technical assistance to States. They should also step up their advisory services for transforming education systems in a spirit of lifelong learning. Fostering lifelong learning in the work of United Nations treaty bodies and the universal periodic review 111. The United Nations treaty bodies and States involved in the universal periodic review should enquire into how lifelong learning is being implemented, keeping in view the international normative framework for education, learning and training. They should also ensure that Governments abide by their responsibility undertaken under Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education 16-14910 25/26