Promoting Social Integration Through Social Inclusion

Invites Member States and relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, to consider the recommendations contained in the report on the formulation and interpretation of national and local policies aimed at promoting social inclusion and reducing inequalities;

Encourages Member States to enable the meaningful participation of civil society and relevant stakeholders and to support, as appropriate, inclusive engagement mechanisms;

Calls upon Member States to promote a more equitable participation in and access to economic growth gains, through, inter alia, policies that ensure inclusive labour markets and by implementing socially responsive macroeconomic policies, in which employment has a key role, and social inclusion strategies that promote social integration, implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, particularly for those who are in vulnerable or marginalized groups or situations, as defined by each country in accordance with its individual circumstances, including on a demand-driven basis, and the promotion and protection of their social and economic rights;

Encourages Member States to consider, when appropriate, the creation or the strengthening of national institutions or agencies for promoting, implementing and evaluating social inclusion programmes and mechanisms, at the national and local levels, in order to help to ensure that no one is left behind;

Also encourages Member States to consider promoting the increased civil, political and economic participation of women, young people, older persons, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples and persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, including through promoting their involvement in political processes and their access to social protection, credit, vocational training and employment support services;

Further encourages Member States to ensure inclusive participatory and representative decision-making processes, at all levels, and to review existing legal frameworks, as appropriate, with a view to removing discriminatory provisions so as to reduce inequalities;

Encourages Member States to promote social inclusion as a matter of social justice in order to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and to help them to adapt to the negative impact of economic crises, humanitarian emergencies, natural disasters and climate change, and in this regard invites relevant United Nations entities and international institutions to support such efforts;

Invites Member States, and encourages regional organizations, to support national efforts to achieve inclusive societies, in particular in developing countries, upon their request, by providing, inter alia, financial and technical cooperation for the design and implementation of sound social inclusion policies;

Encourages Member States to mainstream social integration objectives into social inclusion policies, promoting the participation of persons in vulnerable or marginalized groups or situations in planning, implementing and monitoring processes, in collaboration, as appropriate, with relevant organizations of the United Nations development system, regional organizations, international and regional financial institutions, development and social partners, the private sector and civil society organizations;

Also encourages Member States, recognizing that all legal, social and economic barriers to the empowerment of all women and girls have to be removed, to promote the systematic mainstreaming and inclusion of a gender perspective in all social inclusion strategies or initiatives, while giving special consideration to the promotion of a gender-responsive policy environment in the workplace for the empowerment of women in the workplace;

Further encourages Member States to consider adopting and pursuing national financial inclusion strategies or initiatives that take into account a gender perspective and comprise, inter alia, measures for promoting full and equal access to formal financial services and financial literacy, as a way to increase the capacity of young people, women, persons with disabilities, older persons and Indigenous Peoples to leverage various types of opportunities for their full participation in society, for example as entrepreneurs;

Urges Member States, in collaboration with other stakeholders, to close the digital divide, both between and within countries and including rural-urban, youth-older persons and gender digital divides, and to promote digital inclusion, by taking into account national and regional contexts and addressing the lack of efficient, affordable and accessible digital technology infrastructure, access to the Internet and communication devices, especially in rural and remote areas, and the challenges associated with digital literacy, digital skills, training and awareness, by ensuring that the benefits of new technologies are available to all, taking into account the needs of those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations;

Invites Member States, relevant organizations of the United Nations system, regional organizations, international and regional financial institutions, development and social partners, the private sector and civil society organizations to continue to share their experience in respect of practical initiatives to promote economic, civil and political participation and non‑discrimination measures and other measures for advancing social integration;

Invites Member States to consider a systematic exchange of good practices in social integration at the regional and international levels so that policymakers and other stakeholders can apply them to their national circumstances and step up progress towards achieving a “society for all”;

Encourages Member States to improve the collection and use of high-quality, accessible, timely, reliable, disaggregated data and statistics, including, as appropriate, additional metrics of, inter alia, basic well-being and deprivation of basic human needs, to capture the prevalence of multidimensional poverty, for the formulation of policies and programmes aimed at achieving social inclusion, especially among those who face any form of social exclusion, and stresses the importance of international cooperation in this regard;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its eighty-second session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the information provided by Member States and relevant actors of the United Nations system, with a particular focus on the role of social inclusion for addressing multidimensional poverty and promoting social integration;