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OUTCOME: STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT ON THE POST-2015 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA IN THE AMERICAS
Increase efforts to educate citizens about development issues and challenges and guarantee their access to relevant, timely information in order to empower citizens to become solution-driven leaders.
Strengthen the capacity of the legislative branch to respond to new sustainable development challenges and direct financial resources that support projects addressing these challenges.
Integrate into the debate the need for a legal framework that allows implementing awareness and integrative public outreach policies – supported by adequate financial resources – that have shared benefits for our countries while respecting the diversity of the countries of our hemisphere.
Explore possibilities to harmonize legislation, recognizing that climate change has no borders.
Reinforce parliamentary engagement and collaboration with multilateral organizations at the sub-regional and local levels in order to improve the effectiveness of public policies.
Based on their roundtable discussions, delegates committed to advancing the following concrete actions within their countries to fulfill the points of agreement:
"I think we have the opportunity to build a new agenda that is truly participatory and democratic on an international scale. We must not abandon this opportunity."
"The important thing is to find a point of equilibrium, to see which sustainable development policies to employ in our countries. In this sense I think exchanging successful experiences can be very important. Some of the problems we are facing now in some countries have been overcome in others."