A/RES/63/135 Plan on Sport for Development and Peace contained in the report of the SecretaryGeneral to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session: 6 5F (a) Global framework for sport for development and peace: further develop a framework to strengthen a common vision, define priorities and further raise awareness to promote and mainstream policies on sport for development and peace that are easily replicable; (b) Policy development: promote and support the integration and mainstreaming of sport for development and peace in development programmes and policies; (c) Resource mobilization: promote innovative funding mechanisms and multi-stakeholder arrangements at all levels, on a voluntary basis, including the engagement of sport organizations, civil society, athletes and the private sector; (d) Evidence of impact: promote and facilitate common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards; 4. Encourages Member States to designate focal points for sport for development and peace within their governments; 5. Also encourages Member States to provide institutional structures, appropriate quality standards and competencies and promote academic research and expertise in the field to enable ongoing training, capacity-building and education of physical education teachers, coaches and community leaders in sport for development and peace programmes; Encourages the use of sport as a vehicle to foster development and 6. strengthen education for children and young persons; prevent disease and promote health; empower girls and women; foster the inclusion and well-being of persons with disabilities; and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding; Also encourages the use of mass sport events to promote and support 7. sport for development and peace initiatives; 8. Invites Member States and international sport organizations to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, in their capacitybuilding efforts in sport and physical education, by providing national experiences and best practices, as well as financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sport programmes; Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider signing, 9. ratifying and acceding to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,2 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities4 and the International Convention against Doping in Sport;5 10. Invites the international community to provide voluntary contributions to and to enter into innovative partnerships with the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace and the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including progress made by Member States towards implementation of the Sport for _______________ 6 See A/61/373. 3