Health systems ensuring universal access to essential services

They were also essential to ensuring the success of the electoral process.

Also essential is ensuring equal employment opportunities for women and men.

The reappointment of both Courts was essential to ensuring respect for the rule of law, rebuilding the country's institutions and ensuring democratic stability.

Such knowledge was, nevertheless, essential for ensuring regional cooperation in precursor control.

Improving economic governance is essential for consolidating peace and ensuring sustainable development in Liberia.

Ensuring access to essential services is acknowledged as the principal means by which to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

We reaffirm our commitment to further cooperation on export controls as an essential part of ensuring non proliferation.

Mechanisms for ensuring the engagement and participation of stakeholders across the affected countries are essential.

The second essential milestone that we must reach is ensuring universal access to both HIV prevention and HIV treatment.

Community and school based food and nutrition programmes are essential to ensuring the nutrition and education of the children.

Ensuring a stable cash flow is an essential precondition for uninterrupted financing of the project costs.

The international financial institutions are essential to ensuring development around the world and successful implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

Follow up by the Committee was therefore essential to ensuring respect for human rights and helping countries rebuild their institutions.

The current debate in the Senate on the Constitution is an essential element of ensuring post transition stability.

The universal application of safeguards agreements, including the model additional protocol, was essential for ensuring an effective verification regime.

This central coordination role is essential to ensuring that the specialist activities of the other Division s sections are integrated for maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

Providing appropriate information backstopping for peacekeeping operations was essential for ensuring the safety of staff and the success of missions.

Canada supports the development of that Afghanistan compact and the national development strategy as essential tools for ensuring forward momentum.

The establishment of national benchmarks is essential to ensure a systematic review of the progress made towards implementation of these provisions and should be viewed as an essential element for ensuring international cooperation and domestic change.

The Department's objective was to strengthen security as quickly as possible while ensuring that available funds were used to address essential needs ahead of recommended requirements.

The effective integration of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance should be seen as an essential element in ensuring a smooth transition from relief to development.

Direct dialogue and communication are essential first steps towards ensuring that the disengagement is as smooth and non violent as possible.

Brazil recognized that land and environment were essential for ensuring healthy living conditions and for the sustainable development of indigenous peoples.

It is therefore essential that we enhance the Council's effectiveness by ensuring that its membership better reflects the realities of today's world.

Cooperation among their Chairmen, as well as among their experts, is therefore essential to ensuring a coherent approach on the part of the Council in combating terrorism.

Emphasizes that the implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors is essential to ensuring efficient operations and effective internal controls, and decides to monitor closely these efforts.

Improving the predictability, longevity and coordination of donor aid is essential for reducing transaction costs for countries, creating fiscal space and ensuring medium to long term financial sustainability

12. Emphasizes that the implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors is essential to ensuring efficient operations and effective internal controls, and decides to monitor closely these efforts.

Those units will be an essential tool for preventing misconduct, monitoring compliance with United Nations standards and ensuring swift follow up on disciplinary cases.

These frameworks are essential to ensuring stability and predictability and allowing all regions of the world, in particular the least developed countries, to benefit from the expansion of the global economy.

(b) Ensuring good governance at both the national and international levels as essential for the implementation of the commitments embodied in the Programme of Action

Ensuring the security of our borders, seas, and skies, and preventing terrorism financing is essential and central in the fight against terrorism, but not enough.

Significant progress has been made toward fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, which are essential to ensuring global peace and stability due to the direct link between poverty, lack of development, and security.

IUCN had launched the Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative creating a broad alliance of governmental and civil society organizations to restore and conserve ecosystem services essential for ensuring sustainable livelihoods.

NHRIs are increasingly being recognized by the international community as mechanisms that are essential to ensuring respect for and effective implementation of international human rights standards at the national level.

174. It was noted that the availability of administrative or judicial remedies was an essential element in ensuring the transparency and fairness of a selection procedure.

Non governmental organizations were essential for the functioning of the United Nations and for ensuring that the requirements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were upheld.

Finally, public policies aimed at strengthening the rule of law, promoting trade, and achieving sound macroeconomic management are essential to sustain growth, thereby ensuring the continuous upward mobility of lower income families.

Preconditions for ensuring development gains include measures aimed at the appropriate sequencing of reform, domestic supply capacity building and increased competitiveness, and universal access by all, especially the poorest, to essential services.

Therefore, providing adequate training and ensuring the accountability of senior managers through the incorporation of self evaluation in their Compacts with the Secretary General will indeed be essential.

Ensuring access to reproductive health

Ensuring access to reproductive health

In turn, taking into account the concerns of States most likely to be seriously affected by such measures prior to their adoption would be an essential factor in ensuring the effectiveness of sanctions and minimizing collateral damage.

For women, having access to affordable, acceptable and convenient reproductive health care services is essential to having control over their reproductive lives and to ensuring that the timing of their pregnancies fits with their family, education and work plans.