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ARTICLE 23: HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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ARTICLE 23:   HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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    23.1   Each Protocol Member State shall promote sustainable social and cultural development that would ensure societies that are stable, safe and just and that are based on the promotion and protection of human rights, non-discrimination, respect for diversity, equality of opportunity, solidarity, security, and participation of all people.

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    To this end Protocol Member States agree to —

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      (a)     work towards the development and adoption of a harmonized, common policy framework for human and social development which addresses poverty reduction, gender equality, social protection, equal access to quality social services, human resource and capacity development, livelihood security and empowerment across the life cycle;

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      (b)     strive to achieve and surpass the international goals of eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development;

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      (c)     facilitate the effective participation of all sectors of the society in the decision-making processes at community and national levels;

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      (d)     strengthen the capacity of Protocol Member States to monitor and assess social development policies and programmes to ensure efficiencies, effectiveness and impact of social development programmes;

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      (e)     conduct joint impact assessment of the various initiatives undertaken to address human and social development imperatives;

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      (f)     provide the enabling legislative, policy and administrative environment needed to support social relations and cohesion for children, youth, men and women in the Economic Union Area, with particular attention to the consequences and impact of the free movement of peoples on shared family responsibilities and economic stability;

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      (g)     pay priority attention to social integration, human security and social justice through the development of multi-disciplinary and holistic prevention and response policies to crime and violence;

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      (h)     promote respect for cultural expression, material and non-material, cultural rights and diversity and the significance of such for development; the rights of indigenous peoples and the cultivation of shared values to facilitate overall development and appreciation of regional integration mechanisms; and

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      (i)     ensure equality of access to opportunities available within the Economic Union to persons with differing abilities/living with disabilities and other vulnerable and socially excluded groups.

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