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In this vein, speakers stressed that increasing productivity in the agriculture sector had to be a top priority, but that, for it to be effective, complementary efforts needed to be simultaneously implemented. These included providing necessary physical and communications infrastructure; strengthening absorptive capacity of the farming sector for technological improvement, especially in providing the necessary support for both higher yields and new and innovative crops; reviving agricultural extension services to assure inclusive access and sustainability; and improving financial access and legal tenure rights, especially for women.

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The Commission underlined that development must be people-centred, including through good governance and public policies that promote health, education, skills development, decent job creation, gender equality and empowerment, as well as through measures to enhance social protection and social justice, while simultaneously addressing the challenges of increasing social disparity and income inequality.

Recommendations proposed included prioritizing least developed countries in allocations of official development assistance; implementing new and innovative sources of financing; exploring and, where possible, experimenting with new types of financial and, especially, non-financial collaboration; leveraging resources through subsidies for international private sector engagement, especially foreign direct investment, in areas of least developed country priority; strengthening least developed country capacities for commercial contracting through greater transparency in agreements and by fostering governmental, especially parliamentary, review; increasing the participation of least developed countries in governance of the aid architecture.

These challenges, however, have provided opportunities to reshape investment and development patterns, to create new jobs in the “green economy”, and to manage resources more sustainably, including through strengthened international cooperation and innovative business models.

This requires action to stimulate new and innovative alliances between National Commissions and these partners, which may also have complementary projects with the UNESCO Secretariat.

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Out of millions of children, UNICEF pushed for these children to testify along with our Executive Director Mr. Anthony Lake about the lack of potable water in their communities.

These included the social disparities between non-Maori and Maori; the status of the Treaty of Waitangi in domestic legislation; family violence; equality of opportunity; overrepresentation of Maori in the criminal justice system; and ratification of human rights treaties to which New Zealand was not party.

I have the honour to request that the report of the Western Asia regional preparatory meeting on the theme “Innovative approaches to reaching women, girls and the marginalized in the Arab region” be circulated as a document of the Economic and Social Council for consideration at its 2011 substantive session, under item 2 (b) of the provisional agenda (see annex).

While he was in favour of referral to the Drafting Committee, because the new draft guidelines did constitute a novel and original approach, he thought that the commentary should clearly explain their intended scope and the precise meaning of the terms used and that established reservations should not be regarded as an entirely new category of reservations transcending the intentions behind the Vienna Convention.

The concept of human rights education, while still relatively new, was important to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and of all human rights.

It says that, if indeed one of UNESCO’s functions is to provide innovative development ideas and to be a laboratory of ideas, then the Organization will occasionally need to engage in operational projects of a pilot nature in order to test those ideas and draw lessons.

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The meeting brought together a diverse group of regional stakeholders, experts from the United Nations system and other international organizations, non-governmental organizations, academia and the private sector to discuss how innovative approaches, policies and targeted interventions can help to reach women, girls and the marginalized.

UNIDO observes that in order to increase the outreach of its ICT-based technical assistance programmes and to promote affordable, innovative and relevant solutions to SMEs in developing countries, partnerships between international organizations, public and private sectors and all relevant stakeholders should be consolidated.

In that regard, the Ministers recognised that the increasing interdependence of national economies in a globalising world and the emergence of rule-based regimes for international economic relations have meant that the space for national economic policy, i.e. the scope for domestic policies, especially in the areas of trade, investment, and industrial development, is now often framed by international disciplines, commitments and global market considerations.

Mobile phone banking has penetrated a number of markets and offers a solution to millions of people who do not have access to financial services; but, with the right legal framework, this novel form of banking can also provide regulators and law enforcement agencies an opportunity to trace transactions that does not exist in the traditional hawala system.

This system relies on community leaders to inform people in remote areas about their rights and duties with a view to promoting a culture of peace and the implementation of community mediation arrangements.