E/2021/25 E/CN.9/2021/6 19. Urges Member States to enable global equitable, affordable and timely access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and healthcare services, including as supported through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility and other relevant initiatives, especially in low- and middleincome countries, accelerating the global recovery and contributing to putting an end to the pandemic; 20. Welcomes the initiative by the Secretary-General to convene the Food Systems Summit in 2021 as part of the decade of action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and looks forward to the upcoming Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit, to be held in 2021; 21. Calls upon the United Nations Population Fund to continue to play a crucial role, within its mandate, in assisting countries, based on their needs and in consultation with them, to enable countries to achieve the full and effective implementation of the goals and objectives contained in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for its further implementation beyond 2014, and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 22. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his substantive work on population and development, including on the interactions between population dynamics, inequalities and the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, to pursue further improvements in the accessibility and timeliness of disaggregated population data for use by Member States, the United Nations system, civil society and academia, and, in collaboration with the United Nations system and relevant organizations outside the United Nations, civil society and academia, to continue assessing and reporting on progress towards the full implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the key actions for its further implementation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Decision 2021/101 Special theme for the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Population and Development The Commission on Population and Development decides that the special theme for its fifty-sixth session, in 2023, shall be “Population, education and sustainable development”. 21-06093 19/32