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To break the vicious circle and enhance women’s right to food and right to health,

The projects budget comprises mainly non-recurrent, infrastructure costs that are to be funded by non-core budget contributions, including expansion, replacement and maintenance of UNRWA facilities in order to meet the increasing demand for Agency services

Given the core nature of this function, it is proposed that a general temporary assistance position at the P-3 level be converted to establish a post of Water Engineer, the incumbent of which would be responsible for policy-related water management engineering tasks

Through the tool kit, the FRESH partners aim to put user-friendly materials into the hands of teachers and administrators at the national, district and local level in order to facilitate and improve the implementation of school health activities in each of the four components of the FRESH framework: health-related school

All UNICEF WASH programmes are designed to

I was pleased to be able to announce in Khan Younis that, after three years of closure, the Israeli Government has now approved the entry of material required to complete

At the global level, UNICEF has taken a leading role in conducting in-depth statistical analyses on a range of issues, contributing to a series of sector-specific reports including those

From a human rights perspective, the settlement of excessive vulture fund claims by poor countries with unsustainable debt levels has a direct negative effect on the capacity of the Governments of these countries to fulfil their human rights obligations, especially with regard to

Angola: The new UNDAF document covers the period 2009-2013 and is articulated around four outcomes mapped as

Remaining concerned by the slow and uneven progress in achieving the goal of halving the

UNICEF will cooperate in the following areas: (a) strengthening policy development and analysis and improving waterquality monitoring systems; (b)

Accordingly, Japan supported the adoption of a

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;

The slower progress on Atafu and Nukunonu is primarily due to slow delivery of gabion baskets from overseas and the fact that most

A new report released by UNICEF highlights efforts made to

The Focusing Resources on Effective School Health Initiative provides an inter-agency framework within which the World Food Programme (WFP), WHO and UNICEF work together to achieve more child-friendly schools through

In relation to water resources management, the Committee was informed that the Follow-up

In addition, 242 households were visited and 1,967 family members have been reached and provided with basic

The most important of these actions are: strengthening of the national legislative and normative framework with the approval of a group of harmonised documents to the European Union Directives, enlargement of the

Environmental education should also include the principles of human dignity, inclusion, non-discrimination and equality, as well as economic, social, cultural human rights and most notably the right

Examples of new regional initiatives, networks and agencies in the region include:8 UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme;14 Cartagena Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region; Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Solid and Ship-Generated Waste Management Project;6 Integrated Watershed and Coastal Management in Caribbean SIDS project; ReCaribe: Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and Recycling

However, the Committee remains concerned that children fail to enjoy all their rights due to widespread poverty in the country, and that large numbers of children do not enjoy the right to an adequate standard of living, including full

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