Vision for Everyone : Accelerating Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Calls upon Member States to ensure access to eye care services for their population and to mobilize the necessary resources and support in this regard, in order to contribute to global efforts to reach, by 2030, at least 1.1 billion people who have a vision impairment and currently do not have access to the eye care services that they need;

Calls upon Member States and other stakeholders to include persons with disabilities, including those with visual impairments, in all stages of policymaking and decision-making, as well as to eliminate barriers and discrimination against persons with disabilities, in particular women and girls and those in vulnerable situations, in accessing support and health-care services on an equal basis with others;

Encourages Member States to put in place an integrated and whole-of-government approach to eye care, building synergies with other development priorities and strengthening their collaboration with academia, research institutions, the scientific community, civil society and the private sector, in order to improve safe and affordable access to eye care services;

Invites international financial institutions and donors to provide appropriate targeted finances, especially for developing countries, to address the increasing impact of vision loss on sustainable development and to build an international campaign on eye health towards the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals and leaving no one behind by 2030;

Encourages Member States to consider addressing the situation of eye health in their voluntary national reviews presented at the high-level political forum on sustainable development;

Invites the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators to review and consider in the context of the global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals, at the fifty-sixth session of the Statistical Commission, to be held in 2025, the feasible global indicators on eye health included in World Health Assembly resolution 73.4, as a mechanism for monitoring and reporting on progress towards Vision for Everyone and its contributions to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;³

Encourages the World Health Organization and other relevant entities of the United Nations development system, including but not limited to the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), as well as the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, within their respective mandates, to support global efforts to achieve Vision for Everyone in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda;

Requests the Secretary-General to take the steps necessary to effectively coordinate and follow up on the implementation of the present resolution and, in this regard, to consider briefing the General Assembly on its implementation, as appropriate.