Follow-Up to the Implementation of the International Year of Volunteers

A/RES/63/153View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55b Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation, and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2006–2009

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2009	A/RES/63/153	Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers	761	25%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/134	Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers	802	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2008–2012

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2012	A/67/153	Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/63/153
2008	A/63/184	Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/60/134

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Civil Society Climate Change Conferences Developing Countries Information Dissemination International Voluntary Services International Years Partnership Private Sector Programme Implementation Social Development Social Integration Technical Cooperation Voluntary Service

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;²

²A/63/184.

Reaffirms the need to recognize and promote all forms of volunteerism as an issue that involves and benefits all segments of society, including women, children, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;

Recognizes the importance of supportive legislative and fiscal frameworks for the growth and development of volunteerism, and encourages Governments to enact such measures;

Welcomes the work of Governments, the United Nations system and other stakeholders to create a supportive environment for the promotion of volunteerism;

Takes note of the actions by Governments to support volunteerism, and reiterates its call upon them to continue such action;

Acknowledges the importance of civil society organizations for the promotion of volunteerism, and in that respect recognizes that strengthening the dialogue and interaction between civil society and the United Nations contributes to the expansion of volunteerism;

Encourages Governments to establish partnerships with civil society in order to build up volunteer potential at the national level, given the important contribution that volunteerism makes to the fulfilment of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration;³

³See resolution 55/2.

Welcomes the expanding involvement of the private sector in support of volunteerism, and encourages Governments to support this trend;

Invites Governments to mobilize and support the research community globally to carry out more studies on the subject of volunteerism, in partnership with civil society, in order to provide sound knowledge as a foundation for policies and programmes;

Recognizes that greater efforts are needed to ensure that climate change and the environment feature on the volunteerism agenda of Governments and the United Nations;

Calls for the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to integrate volunteerism in its various forms into their policies, programmes and reports, and encourages the recognition and inclusion of volunteer contributions in future United Nations and other relevant international conferences;

Reaffirms its recognition of the work of the United Nations Volunteers programme as the focal point for the follow-up to the International Year of Volunteers, and requests it to continue to raise awareness of the contribution of volunteerism to peace and development, to act as a convener on the subject for the various interested stakeholders, to make available networking and reference resources and to provide technical cooperation to developing countries, upon their request;

Invites the Commission for Social Development to consider “volunteerism for development” in the context of its theme of social integration at its forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions, in 2009 and 2010 respectively;

Decides that, on or around 5 December 2011, the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, two plenary meetings of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly shall be devoted to follow-up to the International Year and the commemoration of its tenth anniversary, under the item entitled “Social development”;

Invites Governments, with the active support of the media, civil society and the private sector, as well as development partners and the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to carry out activities focused on marking the tenth anniversary of the International Year, in 2011, at the regional and national levels;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution under the item entitled “Social development”.

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