A/RES/52/84 Page 3 programmes to combat the illiteracy of women and girls, and by working in active partnership with communities, associations, the media and development agencies, to reach those targets; 6. Appeals anew to Governments and to economic and financial organizations and institutions, both national and international, to lend greater financial and material support to the efforts to increase literacy and achieve education for all; 7. Invites Member States, the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to further intensify their efforts to effectively implement the World Declaration on Education for All,8 the Amman Affirmation6 and the Hamburg Declaration and the Agenda for the Future adopted at the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, held at Hamburg, Germany, from 14 to 18 July 1997, as well as the relevant commitments and recommendations to promote literacy made at major United Nations-sponsored international conferences, with a view to better coordinating their activities and increasing their contribution to development; 8. Recommends that all Member States and relevant organizations of the United Nations, as well as non-governmental organizations, provide the necessary information on the implementation of the strategies of education for all to the Secretary-General and to the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization so as to enable them to report on the overall progress achieved and the shortfalls encountered in attaining the goal of education for all; 9. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and in consultation with Member States, to consider effective ways and means for achieving the goal of education for all, including the desirability and the feasibility of launching a United Nations decade to eradicate illiteracy, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council; 10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the question of cooperation towards education for all under the item on social development. 70th plenary meeting 12 December 1997 8 Final Report of the World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs, Jomtien, Thailand, 5-9 March 1990, Inter-Agency Commission (UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank) for the World Conference on Education for All, New York, 1990, appendix I.