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Other participants laid stress on enhancing the capabilities of countries of the region to disseminate the results of existing

UNESCO advocated for stronger evidence-based planning and management in the area of education and for improved quality through piloting innovative inclusive and child-friendly educational approaches and developing effective education

The Ministers in order to promote the human rights of women expressed their resolve to take appropriate measures at the national, regional and international levels to improve the quality of life and achieve gender equality and empowerment of women, bearing in mind the inherent potential of women, through inter alia adopting proper socio- economic strategies and programmes and provisions of government services to

The updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures recognize that some special groups of women are particularly vulnerable to violence, either because of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or language, or because they belong to an indigenous group, are

It recognized that the Asia-Pacific region remained home to almost two thirds of the

Where necessary, the court will also hear

In recent years, they include the

One third of the projects were implemented by non-governmental organizations, 15 of which related to domestic violence (funded by the Fund from 2003 to 2005): opening shelter houses for women and children who are victims of violence, SOS telephones, training of experts for working with victims of violence and

(c) To underline the importance of continued efforts by member States and the Council of Arab Ministers of Health to improve health care standards by developing and upgrading health care units and

The Committee recalls that such information is indispensable to: understanding the situations of specific groups of persons with disabilities in the State party who may be subject to varying degrees of exclusion, especially indigenous people, women

Afghanistan also reported that the

A strategy entitled “Integration through education” was being drafted, the four national action and operative plans under the Roma Decade and Strategy had been revised, and

The delegation of Thailand also noted that the discussions and recommendations for action from the Asia-Pacific Urban Forum were very useful and should be implemented to promote sustainable urban development in the region, and particularly requested the secretariat to prioritize three areas of work: firstly, to develop criteria and standards for city classification, such as “sustainable city”, “eco-city”, and “green industrial city” to provide a guideline for benchmarking sustainable urban development at the regional and subregional levels; secondly, to develop databases and networks at the

The self-government executes tasks in the following scope: public education, health promotion

Examples were given of national, bilateral, regional and international programmes to further socio-economic and sustainable development, notably in the following areas: agriculture and fishery; monitoring climate change; disaster management; hydrology; managing ecosystems and natural resources; monitoring air and water quality; mapping biodiversity

Other important constraints for the region were the challenges of energy efficiency, sustainable transport/mobility and integrated waste and water management; the lack of a financial and economic framework for sustainable consumption and production; the need for sustainable procurement; the limited mainstreaming of sustainable products and services; insufficient education and information regarding sustainable consumption and production and sustainable lifestyles; insufficient awareness about how to increase business competitiveness through

Examples were given of national, bilateral, regional and international programmes to further socio-economic and sustainable development, notably in the following areas: agriculture and fishery; climate change monitoring; detecting illegal crops and opium poppy cultivation; early warning of and response to natural and man-made disasters; geology; humanitarian relief; hydrology; managing ecosystems and natural resources; mapping biodiversity resources, coastal zones, land use, wasteland and wetlands; monitoring air quality, desertification, droughts, food security,

The subparagraph should thus read:

Agriculture plays a crucial role in almost all least developed countries, both in promoting food security and as the major economic activity for much of the population, with

The effects of the structural adjustment programme were particularly disastrous for vulnerable groups and significantly increased the number of people

The World Bank is preparing a social welfare programme (the “productive social safety nets” project), under the aegis of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which has three components: (a) a labour-intensive public works programme (direct creation of 24,000 temporary jobs benefiting nearly 150,000 people through the transfer of around GF 53.4 billion in wages), life skills training (5,000 beneficiaries), targeting young people in urban areas, with a view to the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of essential urban infrastructure (with some 500,000 indirect beneficiaries of an improvement in living conditions) and short-term job creation; (b)

Health services, early detection and intervention programmes, as appropriate, to prevent and minimize the emergence of secondary disabilities, paying