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A cross-border agreement between Afghanistan and Tajikistan

The African Group also wishes to underscore that, as the framework for United Nations system-wide support to capacity-building at the level of the African Union Commission and regional economic communities, the ten-year capacity-building programme also provides for cooperation in other areas of interest to African development,

Against the background of the ongoing review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Government’s efforts to provide free medical care to mothers and children under five, its successful programmes to fight HIV/AIDS and malaria, its

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

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)

With the prospect of continued high prices for hard and soft natural resource in the

However, a lack of institutional capacity and a failure to include the sector into national and regional development policies continue to

Towards this end, FAO and UNESCO agreed to co-finance a

The representative of Myanmar reported on progress in the areas

This project promotes sustainable community-based cultural and ecotourism in isolated

The Ministry has the policy to encourage the private sector and local communities to support and develop early

If No, does your country assess the national poverty rate (i.e. the percentage of the national population

It was encouraged by Chile’s readiness to guarantee access to education for all children, especially those from

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

While that might benefit some, particularly medium- and large-scale farmers,

He said that investments originating from the public

(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

In addition to the common documents being considered under agenda item 3, the Commission had before it the report of the Committee on Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Development on its second session (E/ESCAP/68/4) and the report of the Governing

Time and experience on the ground provided IFAD with the knowledge and deeper understanding of indigenous peoples’ issues and made the institution recognize that while

The Committee recommends that South-South and triangular cooperation and the transfer of technologies and best practices for sustainable agricultural development in the region be promoted as an effective tool for enhancing sustainable agricultural growth and, in that regard,

Too often in the past, Governments had been concerned with providing affordable food to urban consumers, which was understandable and legitimate, but cheap, subsidized food imports crowded out