productive employment opportunities and promoteagricultural and industrial development.151.We emphasize the need to enhance employment and income opportunitiesfor all, especially for women and men living in poverty and, in thisregard, we support national efforts to provide new job opportunitiesto the poor in both rural and urban areas, including support to smalland medium enterprises.152.We recognize that workers should have access to education, skills,healthcare, social security, fundamental rights at work, social andlegal protections, including occupational safety and health, anddecent work opportunities. Governments, trade unions and workers, andemployers all have a role to play in promoting decent work for all,and all should help youth gain access to needed skills and employmentopportunities including in new and emerging sectors. Women and menshould have equal access to opportunities to acquire job skills aswell as to worker protections. We recognize the importance of a justtransition including programmes to help workers adjust to changinglabour market conditions.153.We also recognize that informal unpaid work, performed mostly bywomen, contributes substantially to human wellbeing and sustainabledevelopment. In this regard, we commit to work towards safe anddecent working conditions and access to social protection andeducation.154. We recognize that opportunities for decent work for all and jobcreation can be availed through, interalia,public and private investments in scientific and technologicalinnovation, public works in restoring, regenerating and conservingnatural resources and ecosystems, and social and community services.We are encouraged by government initiatives to create jobs for poorpeople in restoring and managing natural resources and ecosystems,and we encourage the private sector to contribute to decent work forall and job creation for both women and men, and particularly for theyouth, including through partnerships with small and mediumenterprises as well as cooperatives. In this regard, we acknowledgethe importance of efforts to promote the exchange of information andknowledge on decent work for all and job creation, including greenjobs initiatives and related skills, and to facilitate theintegration of relevant data into national economic and employmentpolicies.155.We encourage the sharing of experiences and best practices on ways toaddress the high levels of unemployment and underemployment, inparticular among youth.156.We stress the need to provide social protection to all members ofsociety, fostering growth, resilience, social justice and cohesion,including those who are not employed in the formal economy. In thisregard, we strongly encourage national and local initiatives aimed atproviding social protection floors for all citizens. We supportglobal dialogue on best practices for social protection programmesthat takes into account the three dimensions of sustainabledevelopment and, in this regard, we note the International LabourOrganization Recommendation 202 concerning National Floors of SocialProtection.157.We call upon States to promote and protect effectively the humanrights and fundamental freedom of all migrants regardless of themigration status, especially those of women and children, and toaddress international migration through international, regional orbilateral cooperation and dialogue and for a comprehensive andbalanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities ofcountries of origin, transit and destination in promoting andprotecting the human rights of all migrants, and avoiding approachesthat might aggravate their vulnerability.Oceansand seas158.We recognize that oceans, seas and coastal areas form an integratedand essential component of the Earths ecosystem and are criticalto sustaining it and that international law, as reflected in UnitedNations Convention