The courses are aimed at enhancing women's access to and participation in further education and employment.

There had also been an increase in family projects to empower women so that they might improve their family income.

4. Calls upon all States to increase and intensify their activities aimed at the full implementation of the provisions of the Convention

The National Population Action Plan for 2002 to 2006 aimed to increase women's economic power.

We commend and endorse all other initiatives designed to increase funds for ODA.

Funding for activities designed to suppress illicit drug trafficking will see the largest increases, moving from 17.8 million to 40.0 million, 112.7 per cent before recosting.

His Government had adopted measures aimed at accelerating growth, poverty reduction and human development and strengthening governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law.

At present a new bill is under discussion it is designed to expand affirmative action to provide genuine guarantees of political participation by women.

One of the more successful programmes aimed at increasing sustainable livelihood opportunities and community empowerment is the Afghan National Solidarity Programme.

Her Government was developing policies aimed at increasing women's participation in the workforce, a process that would likely accelerate during Turkey's European Union accession process.

Any policies designed to restrict the associated growth in greenhouse gas emissions would need to be targeted at all of these areas. Such policies include

Consequently, the Government of Mozambique was taking vigorous measures in that area.

Draft resolution A 59 L.64 aims to expand the membership of the Security Council to reflect new realities.

UNCTAD apos s new mandate was in response to emerging transport and trade patterns indicating increased regional trade.

Growth with equity had always been the thrust of Malaysia's development planning, with emphasis on efforts to enhance income generating opportunities.

The package included a list of 28 measures aimed at increasing revenues through a series of new taxes, reducing expenditures and servicing the public debt.

Each year, the National Target Programme on poverty reduction and job creation helps 300,000 households escape poverty.

It has therefore always supported initiatives aimed at strengthening the authority of this regime and promoting its universality.

The medium term fiscal objectives aim to enhance domestic resource mobilization for the social and poverty programmes and for investment in infrastructure.

In that regard, any policies designed to increase food production must take into full consideration the sustainable management of natural resources.

In other words, policies designed to enhance professionalism should be implemented pari passu with those aimed at redressing gender disparities.

6. Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to submit proposals to effectively increase procurement opportunities for and the participation of vendors from developing countries

Regional stabilization should be about cooperation aimed at increased and sufficient support for the consolidation of the African Union Commission.

Efforts to increase domestic savings in recent years had focused on government deficit, and on increasing private savings through financial reforms such as liberalization and deregulation.

Fourthly, the promotion of human dignity is a key purpose of the United Nations. In today's world, its importance is increasing.

The Decade had begun in 1990 with the aim of preventing and reducing the effects of natural disasters through improved information on disasters.

The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy was aimed at implementing a comprehensive set of programmes to support growth and poverty reduction between 2003 and 2005.

Furthermore, we support the strengthening of the authority of the Secretary General in implementing reform, and welcome efforts to improve the transparency and accountability of the Secretariat.

Research component 4 is intended to analyse the most efficacious strategies to foster the contribution of SMEs to dynamic industrial growth.

3. To encourage contacts between the business and financial communities in the two countries with the aim of significantly increasing the volume of trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

The aim of the plan is to increase the level of staffing and the space available for State ministries, so boosting institutional capacity.

Mr. Nenadović (Serbia and Montenegro) said that the segment of the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development directed at improving knowledge and strengthening capacities was of particular importance to his country.

The thrust of the Greek Cypriot representative's letter centres on a totally baseless claim that Turkey is attempting to reinforce its military presence in the island by both increasing the number of troops and upgrading its military equipment.

Note 2 A proposal was made to add Disasters have a huge detrimental impact on efforts at all levels to reduce global poverty .

8. Welcomes the decisions to strengthen cooperation in the economic and environmental sphere and to enhance the role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in police related activities

In addition, the Council's support for initiatives aimed at strengthening local and national capabilities in humanitarian crises greatly increases the chance for success.

Momentum has been building.

Official development assistance should not be aimed solely at addressing the consequences of poverty but should be targeted instead at creating conditions in which private investment can flourish.

Among the main confidence building initiatives were an increasing number of inter entity bus lines and the promotion of visits to home towns of displaced persons.

9. The Agenda emphasized how special attention should be given by all countries to measures aimed at promoting international investment flows and enhancing their contribution to development.

The efforts aimed at improving the training participation rate must therefore continue.

While the United States welcomes one addition to the text the clause calling for the identification of national efforts aimed at strengthening security and promoting international cooperation it is insufficient to offset the remainder of the draft resolution.

How can measures to increase commodity price stability and returns from commodity exports contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

The participants proposed that recommendations for action addressed to various entities, aimed at strengthening the promotion and protection of minorities, be forwarded through appropriate channels for consideration.

At that session, the Working Group was urged to strive for a legal text aimed at increasing the availability of lower cost credit (A CN.9 420, para. 16).