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 that individuals and communities can obtain essential resources such as water, food, energy, and healthcare. This strategy addresses barriers like scarcity, inequitable distribution, and logistical obstacles by developing infrastructure, improving supply chains, and enforcing fair policies. Its core purpose is to remedy deprivation and vulnerability, enabling sustainable livelihoods and social stability through reliable, equitable, and timely access to vital resources.

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.