Both recipient Governments and bilateral donors have found support to aid coordination and management useful and necessary.

Moreover, donor countries are increasingly earmarking aid, with no guarantee that their aid giving preferences match the needs of recipients.

All providers of relief assistance should devise concrete mechanisms to enhance the level of accountability to beneficiaries to ensure that the provision of assistance is based on the needs of the affected populations.

Moreover, sanctions regimes generally permitted the provision of humanitarian assistance, of which children were the principal beneficiaries.

Files were completed for 487 of the 632 beneficiaries eligible for Euro 2000 start up assistance.

Consideration of requests submitted under Article

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According to many participants, aid and technical assistance could help to overcome those obstacles so that recipient countries could realize the potential benefits from trade.

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UNHCR has continued its efforts to improve the delivery of assistance, especially to those beneficiaries with special protection and assistance needs.

Specific mechanisms should be devised to enhance the accountability of all providers of relief assistance to beneficiaries.

Cooperation and assistance

Beneficiary organizations from the five geographical regions were invited to brief donors on their activities, thereby illustrating the direct impact the Fund has on the lives of the assisted victims.

If there were no change, it was unrealistic to expect development aid to reach its intended beneficiaries intact.

Aid for health has worked. The world has benefited enormously from the triumph of generosity, professionalism, common decency, and good sense.

The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture channels humanitarian assistance to an increasing number of organizations that help victims of torture every year.

It was to be hoped that both donor and recipient countries would find the evaluations useful.

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Chapter IX. Victim assistance through victimization prevention

The aid we provide to developing countries is of high quality, and it is implemented in partnership with its beneficiaries.

Requests the secretariat to intensify consultations with potential beneficiaries of UNCTAD's assistance, at the time of the formulation of project documents, with a view to ensuring that proposed activities are demand driven and meet the beneficiaries' development goals and objectives

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B. Other forms of assistance and victim services

(i) Services designed to provide assistance to victims generally

State assistance must be designed to benefit the poorest people first of all.

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B. Victim assistance as a victimization prevention technique

For example, the Co Chairs of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance sought to assist the 24 most relevant States Parties in establishing concrete victim assistance objectives for the 2005 09 period.

Some States also referred to community based and victim support agencies, as well as to the media, private aid associations, crime victim relief funds and local offices for victim assistance.

Necessary material and medical assistance and support were provided to such victims in almost all the States.

More than six million people have benefited from emergency assistance during the past 10 years.

This is the nature of this type of assistance, which can often include a wide range of activities and serve more than one set of beneficiaries.

Ensure that, in all victim assistance efforts, emphasis is given to age and gender considerations and to mine victims who are subject to multiple forms of discrimination in all victim assistance efforts.

It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need.

Technical assistance was available for developing countries on issues related to SPS, but it was observed that awareness of such assistance by potential beneficiaries was lacking.

Legal protection and assistance to the victim

Chapter II. Prosecutors and victim assistance

Ms. Marlene Young Executive Director, National Organization for Victim Assistance

In addition to outlining the priority elements of victim assistance, the work of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Socio Economic Reintegration has underscored that the ultimate responsibility for victim assistance rests with each State Party within which there are landmine survivors and other mine victims.

Chapter X. Care for the victim assistance professional

Emergency assistance is useful, but it is only that emergency assistance.