Assembly/AU/Decl.6(XXIV) Page 2 Noting with Concern the inadequate appropriate legal and policy and measures to protect workers from unacceptable forms of work in compliance with relevant legal instruments to promote fundamental principles and rights; Noting with Concern discrimination against women as well as the inadequacy of legal and institutional arrangements to cater for their work and life responsibilities; while appreciating the increase of their participation in the labour market; Noting with concern the insufficient appropriate internal budgetary resources allocation for the implementation of the Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development; Conscious that the acceleration of widespread labour migration within Africa contributes to development and poverty eradication; Conscious of the importance of beneficiation from the continent’s endowed natural and human resources which open up sustainable development opportunities; Having Taken Cognizance of the assessment of the implementation of the 2004 Ouagadougou Declaration, Plan of Action on Employment and Poverty Alleviation and after having drawn the lessons; DO HEREBY SOLEMNLY: 1. RE-AFFIRM our determination to place employment creation as an explicit and central objective of our economic and social policies at national, regional and continental levels, with a view to improving the living conditions of our people; 2. RE-AFFIRM our determination to reduce unemployment in our countries, in particular of Youth and Women, by at least two (2%) percent annually over the next decade; and also to halve the huge underemployment rate over the next decade; 3. RE-AFFIRM our willingness to speed up transitioning of the informal economy to the formal economy and promote decent work in all economic activities sectors; 4. REAFFIRM our determination to step up our regional cooperation for smooth labour migration in the continent, including through effective implementation of our treaties, charters, protocols and other relevant policy instruments in view of free movement of people and workers while combatting its negative impact on human trafficking; WE FURTHER REAFFIRM our resolution to enhance our cooperation with other regions of the world for better and more responsible management of labour migration flows for mutual development benefits while emphasizing the importance of adequate protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families;