Human Resources Development

A/RES/64/218View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57c Human resources development, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2002–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/224

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/224	Human resources development	4,869	79%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/182	Human resources development	4,420	76%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/236	Human resources development	3,489	75%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/235	Human resources development	2,892	78%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/220	Human resources development	2,593	80%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2003–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/257	Human resources development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/182
2022	A/77/234	Human resources development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/236
2015	A/70/293	Human resources development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/228
2013	A/68/228	Human resources development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/217
2011	A/66/206	Human resources development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/218

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;²

²A/64/329.

Stresses the need for Member States to emphasize and integrate human resources development into national development strategies, including national development policies and strategies to eradicate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals, in order to ensure that human resources development implications are taken into account by all national development stakeholders;

Encourages Member States to adopt and implement comprehensive human resources development strategies premised on national development objectives that ensure a strong link between education, training and employment, help to maintain a productive and competitive workforce and are responsive to the needs of the economy;

Stresses that investment in human resources development should be an integral part of national development policies and strategies, and in this regard calls for the adoption of policies to facilitate investment focused on infrastructure and capacity development, including education, health and science and technology, including information and communications technology;

Encourages Member States to continue to strengthen social protection systems and to adopt policies that strengthen existing safety nets, protect vulnerable groups and boost domestic consumption and production especially to cushion the effect of the crisis and prevent people from falling into poverty, acknowledges in this regard that many developing countries lack the necessary financial resources and capacity to implement such countercyclical measures, and recognizes the need for continued mobilization of additional domestic and international resources, as appropriate;

Emphasizes the need for Member States to adopt cross-sectoral approaches and mechanisms to identify human resources development needs in the medium and long term for all sectors of the economy and to formulate and implement policies and programmes to address those needs;

Calls upon the international community to assist developing countries in the implementation of national human resources development strategies, and encourages the international community to provide financial resources, capacity-building, technical assistance and transfer of technology, as appropriate and on mutually agreed terms;

Calls upon the international community, including the entities of the United Nations system, to support the efforts of developing countries to address the adverse effects of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases on their human resources, in particular in Africa;

Stresses that sustainable development is dependent, inter alia, on healthy human resources, calls upon Member States to continue their efforts to strengthen national health systems, urges the further strengthening of international cooperation in the area of health, inter alia, through the exchange of best practices in the areas of health system strengthening, access to medicines, training of health personnel, transfer of technology and production of affordable, safe, effective and good-quality medicine, and in this regard stresses that international cooperation and assistance, in particular external funding, need to become more predictable and to be better aligned with national priorities and channelled to recipient countries in ways that strengthen national health systems;

Encourages efforts by Member States and the international community to promote a balanced, coherent and comprehensive approach to international migration and development, in particular by building partnerships and ensuring coordinated action to develop capacities, including for the management of migration, and in this regard reiterates the need to consider how the migration of highly skilled persons and those with advanced education affects the development efforts of developing countries;

Calls for steps to integrate gender perspectives into human resources development, including through policies, strategies and targeted actions aimed at promoting women’s capacities and access to productive activities, and in this regard emphasizes the need to ensure the full participation of women in the formulation and implementation of such policies, strategies and actions;

Stresses the important contributions of the public and private sectors, respectively, in meeting national training and education needs to support the efficient functioning of enterprises and matching the needs of a rapidly changing economy, and encourages the integration of those contributions, including through the greater use of public-private partnerships and incentives;

Calls for actions at the national, regional and international levels that will give high priority to improving and expanding literacy, as well as science proficiency, including by providing tertiary, technical-vocational and adult education, and stresses the need to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and will have equal access to all levels of education;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report that reviews lessons learned from the global financial and economic crisis on the requirements for human resources development to help countries to prevent and overcome the negative effects of crises and progress towards a more sustainable path of development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub-item entitled “Human resources development”.

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