Reaffirms that education and training of nationals, including the most vulnerable groups, are an integral and the most important part of human resources development, and emphasizes that the flow of resources to developing countries for these activities needs to be increased; emphasizes the need, in formulating strategies and programmes for human resources development, to intensify efforts for the full integration of women in the development process and to create opportunities for them, as well as the youth and the poor in the development process, both as beneficiaries and as agents of development; agrees that internationally supported structural adjustment programmes should be designed and formulated to have, inter alia, a positive impact on human resources development in developing countries; calls upon the international community to support the efforts of developing countries in human resources development, through, inter alia, operational activities of the UN system; invites the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole for the Preparation of the International Development Strategy for the 4th UN Development Decade, to take the present resolution into account in the formulation of the new strategy; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 45th session a report on human resources development.

Adopted without vote, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 22 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 138-139. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).