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of meeting agendas and for circulating information more effectively has been expressed.

help prevent conflicts through activities in education and communication.

African Development Bank and major regional economic communities.

food security, particularly by protecting land from becoming degraded, we pledge our commitment to implementing the 10-year strategic plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (2008-2018),i and call on donors to enhance financial support for the Convention, including strategic objective 4, and we also call for substantial, additional resources for the land degradation focal area during the fifth replenishment period of the Global Environment Facility.

and mitigation; and easing access for African countries to various types of financing.

also the effectiveness of investment in the agricultural sector (e.g., absorptive capacity and sectoral infrastructure); the research and development models needed to boost the development of varieties adapted to African agro-climatic conditions, including for future adaptation to climate change; and the policies that must be put in place to best support the efforts of farmers to adapt to climate change.

Secretariats and bilateral agencies (GTZ, France, Canada, Japan) or conducting joint activities in a large number of countries, for example with UNDP (Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, etc); UNIDO (Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Uganda, etc); GTZ (Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Mauritius, etc).

and to draft the terms of reference for a peace agreement based on the Sudan People’s Initiative, civil society recommendations contained in the Doha Declaration, the achievements of the Darfur Peace Agreements, the recommendations of the African Union High-Level Panel for Darfur and the Heidelberg Darfur Dialogue Outcome Document, as well as the peace offers and proposals of the parties to the conflict.

Singapore, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China, the Republic of Korea; (f) Oceania, with 5 families in Australia.

updates on the preparations for the High-level Meeting and reviewed the proceedings and outcomes of the ninth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention and the second special session of the Committee on Science and Technology.

remain the main producers in Africa.

Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe; in Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar/ Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; in Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Georgia, Kosovo, Serbia and Turkey; in the Middle East, the whole region from North Africa to Iran; and in Latin America, Colombia, the rest of the Andean region and Haiti.

companies to make drugs, including antiretroviral drugs, affordable and accessible in Africa and to ensure increased bilateral and multilateral assistance, where possible on a grant basis, to combat malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases in Africa through the strengthening of health systems.

the vital work on transmission and prevention being done by UN and other agencies in a rigorous agenda that charts the way forward on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

and other multilateral environmental agreements, and invited international financial institutions, regional development banks and other international and regional organizations to contribute to the preparatory process by providing technical contributions and inputs, as appropriate, to the report of the Secretary-General report on the objective and themes of the Conference.

Framework Convention on Climate Change — on the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (see annex).

strengthening of the UNICEF presence in South Sudan and a transformed presence in the Russian Federation from a country office to a partnership presence under the regional office for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

against Women and other women’s rights instruments in African countries has contributed to the enactment of gender-sensitive laws and policies guaranteeing women’s rights in relation to family relations, inheritance, citizenship, land, access to services, including those related to HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, and protecting women from violence, discrimination and exclusion.