Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the observance of the International Year of Microcredit, 2005, and on the role of microcredit and microfinance in the eradication of poverty; invites the international community, in particular the donor community, to support developing countries in collecting and preserving necessary statistical data and information on this issue; calls upon Member States, the UN system and other relevant stakeholders to fully maximize the role of microfinance tools, including microcredit for poverty eradication and especially for the empowerment of women, and to ensure that best practices in the microfinance sector are widely disseminated; calls upon Member States, the UN system, the Bretton Woods institutions and other relevant stakeholders to support, in a coordinated manner, the efforts of developing countries in capacity-building for microcredit and microfinance institutions, including by improving their policy and regulatory framework; invites Member States to consider adopting policies to facilitate the expansion of microcredit and microfinance requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 63rd session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 83rd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.