CÚPULA DA AMÉRICA LATINA E DO CARIBE SOBRE ... - Funag

CÚPULA DA AMÉRICA LATINA E DO CARIBE SOBRE INTEGRAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO - CALC
• To promote universal, equitable and quality access to primary education
and to health services, sanitation and potable water, especially to those living in
extreme poverty.
• To increase regional cooperation for the implementation of programs
that ensure the reduction of infant mortality, improve maternal health, particularly
in rural areas, and combat high impact epidemics
• To implement specific national development programs for the youth,
particularly in areas such as education, health, employment, training and
entrepreneurship, among others.
• To adopt comprehensive and flexible programs adapted to the socioeconomic
and cultural realities of each country, region and population group,
aimed at eradicating illiteracy in all countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
before 2015.
• To promote the formulation and implementation of social programs
aimed at meeting the various basic needs of the most vulnerable communities
such as children, women, the elderly and people with disabilities.
• To ensure that regional and international trade agreements entered into
by the countries of the region are responsive to the social development needs
and the sustainable implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.
• To promote the elaboration of a comprehensive plan of action to
implement cooperation and ensure that the assistance to middle income countries
is more effective, as agreed at high level international conferences on this matter.
• To convene regional meetings for the exchange of information on
successful experiences in the above-mentioned areas.
6. Food and nutritional security
• To promote actions to ensure food and nutritional security through
public policies that foster rural development, the sustainable production of
food, its safety, distribution and commercialization.
• To promote regional coordination of initiatives concerning food and
nutritional security and the exchange of technologies through the existing subregional
organizations with due attention to emergency situations and to the
structural aspects of production, commercialization and distribution of food.
• To incorporate a human rights perspective in the elaboration and review
of national strategies aimed at guaranteeing food and nutritional security with
broad social participation, particularly from the most vulnerable sectors.
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