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At its sixty-third session, the General Assembly decided to devote one plenary meeting at its sixty-fifth session to consideration of the

In 2009, based on the request of the Global Environment Facility, in accordance with the recommendation of a programme evaluation that an audit schedule that ensures that all country programmes can be audited at least once during every operational phase should be established, and funds for audits should be allocated in each

Based on its experience and best practices, within the evolving international normative framework, and under a committed leadership of its President and Senior Management, the strengthened engagement of IFAD with indigenous peoples in recent years has been founded on three main pillars: (a) advocacy role and policy dialogue at the international level; (b) development of the Fund’s policy on engagement with indigenous peoples, as an institutional instrument to systematize the Fund’s best practices in its loans and grants programmes and projects and enhance the ability of IFAD to empower indigenous peoples to engage in

In the area of rural development and the alleviation of poverty, the following policies must be adopted: (a) infrastructure in rural areas must be improved, particularly water and energy facilities and roads, and should include the use of renewable energy resources; (b) access to education and health services, water and sanitation in rural areas must be improved and gender equality in the development process

The Permanent Forum recommends: (a) using the model of

Speakers cited progress at the national level in the areas of gender-based budgeting, promoting gender sensitivity in the legal system, improvements in female literacy, increases in the number of female elected

Both traditional financing (financial system mechanisms for large scale

They should be made sustainable by mobilizing savings to

The study, which is before the Commission at its forty-third session (A/CN.9/698), provides an overview of the

In order to assist the Government in addressing the challenge of high unemployment rates, especially among youth, the International Labour Organization provided technical assistance to the Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment. This included assistance for programmes providing temporary employment for more than 5,800 people (30 per cent of them women) living in rural areas, assisting 2,525 job seekers (62.4 per cent of them women) with career guidance services and supporting 764 unemployed people (79.7 per cent of them

The 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in

It reiterated the importance of

The assessment methodology included: (a) extensive review of

The Commission also agreed that the Secretariat should, resources permitting, undertake research for consideration by the Commission on the following items: (i) overcollateralization and the use of collateral with no economic value; (ii) e-money, including its status as savings; whether “issuers” of e-money were engaged in banking and hence what type of regulation they were subject to; and the coverage of such funds by deposit insurance schemes; (iii) provision for fair, rapid, transparent and inexpensive

During the year, income tax payers are obliged to pay a tax advance before the 20th day in the month following the

The report (a) reviewed the practice of WRS systems, including the market off-take system, electronic warehouse receipt system and