Ensuring resource access

Increasing access to productive resources
Freeing up access to society's resources

Description

Ensuring resource access involves implementing practical measures to guarantee equitable and reliable availability of essential resources—such as water, food, energy, and information—to all populations. This strategy addresses barriers like scarcity, distribution inequities, and exclusion by developing infrastructure, reforming policies, and fostering cooperation among stakeholders. Its core purpose is to remedy deprivation and vulnerability, thereby supporting sustainable development, social stability, and improved quality of life for affected communities.

Context

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends reviewing and refocusing existing measures to achieve wider access to land, water and forest resources, with particular emphasis on rural populations, indigenous people and local communities.