Contribution of the Care Economy to Sustainable Development

Invites Member States, taking into account national circumstances, plans and priorities, to consider:

Encourages Member States, in accordance with their national priorities and capacities, to increase investment in the care economy, including by promoting strategic investments in care infrastructure and services that can support the creation of decent work, enable greater female labour-force participation and improve well-being and human development outcomes;

Invites the relevant entities of the United Nations development system, as appropriate and within their existing mandates and resources, to support programme countries’ efforts, upon request and in line with national priorities, needs and plans, to develop, strengthen and expand care and support systems and related efforts in the care economy, including through the provision of technical assistance, capacity-building and policy advice;

Calls upon the international community, including, inter alia, development partners, international financial institutions, multilateral and public development banks and the private sector, to consider how to support national efforts to invest in and strengthen care and support systems, including through official development assistance, concessional finance, technical assistance, capacity-building, technology transfer on mutually agreed terms and knowledge-sharing;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its eighty-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-second session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, a sub-item entitled “Contribution of the care economy to sustainable development”.