However, the deal is conditional on the British Steel Pension Scheme being restructured and the government providing financial support.

(e) UNCDF will continue to serve as policy advisor to UNDP for microfinance, representing UNDP in CGAP and providing policy support to the Office of the Administrator.

8. WFP plans to assist the integration of Chechen IDPs in Daghestan and Ingushetia.

International financial institutions and assistance

(c) PAMI, financial assistance.

The International Monetary Fund will certainly require Ukraine to reform its gas and coal subsidies as a precondition for implementing its package of financial support (of which a substantial contribution comes from the European Union). The first steps are already being taken, with the authorities recently announcing that household gas prices will rise by 50 next month.

29. Another pertinent activity is that of the Consultative Group on Assistance to the Poorest for which UNDP helps mobilize support from banks and other financial institutions.

The significance of United Nations funds and programmes as a percentage of total ODA receipts by individual countries varies extensively between countries.

(iv) Inviting international financial institutions and intergovernmental organizations to work with donor and recipient countries to strengthen current and establish new financial instruments and procedures that can support funding of priority needs within recipient countries for the implementation of Strategic Approach objectives

Rental subsidy and deduction schemes

This scheme is jointly funded by the Government of the United Kingdom, UNDP and ACTIONAID.

The African nations need multilateral assistance for the design and financing of such adjustment assistance schemes.

(i) Programmes such as Samurdhi, Janasaviya, Suvasaviya, the food stamp scheme, the public assistance scheme and other welfare schemes will be targeted to the needy (very poor, handicapped, etc.).

This is the main social assistance scheme in Iceland.

(b) Comprehensive Medical Assistance Plan (PAMI) for geriatric institutes.

54. UNFPA The first UNFPA programme of assistance (1989 1993) focused on maternal and child health and family planning.

UNFPA should therefore increase the resources allocated to the fourth country programme (1998 2001).

The programme is based on a mesh of supportive psychological, social and employment structures.

Donors should structure aid to ensure that it supports sound national development policies and programs, rather than their own narrow interests. This is particularly relevant as emerging development partners, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), offer new kinds of aid packages that incorporate investment and non financial assistance.

SCHEME FOR INTERNATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE TEAMS FOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

159. ODA from United Nations funds and programmes is widely distributed among 130 countries.

55. The UNFPA programme of assistance for the 1997 2001 period will focus on reproductive health and family planning.

St. Helena also receives assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Bilateral assistance agencies, programmes and funds of the United Nations system involved in providing technical assistance, as well as international financial institutions, should play a more active role in supporting alternative development programmes that accompany the elimination of drug crops.

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In several countries, agencies are currently cooperating with the funds and programmes in the formulation of UNDAFs.

(b) Providing financial and technical assistance to strengthen project development capacities.

(b) The Migrant Workers Loan Guarantee Fund (100 million pesos) to provide a financing scheme for the grant of pre departure loans and family assistance loans the fund aims to protect workers seeking employment abroad from illegal recruiters

The SRF is designed to quickly provide financial assistance to countries experiencing external payments difficulties due to large short term financing needs resulting from a sudden loss of market confidence.

In the meantime, Central Asian countries need sustained donor support, because private investment flows have not recovered to levels that preceded the global financial crisis. But foreign donors must exercise greater oversight and conditionality in their regional aid programs, as well as ensure that their assistance is better coordinated and integrated than in the past.

The Korean Government planned to continue such technical assistance efforts.

Review of technical assistance, advisory and training

That was Marshall aid we need to do it again. Aid is part of the solution.

The returning populations are also being assisted through broader reintegration programmes under the Results Focused Transitional Framework.

The Committee welcomes the decision by the Board of Education to award scholarships and bursaries to children and the Board's Textbook Assistance Scheme, which provides children, free of cost, with all the textbooks used in school at the primary and secondary levels.

In India, UNIFEM has been supporting the Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance Development Programme (TREAD) project which was developed and funded by the Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) following the SAARC meeting.

The official donor community and international private foundations have also provided substantial financial and technical assistance to improve the situation.

Delegations commended the Cambodia CPD and the Fund's planned assistance for the 2008 census.

A number of assistance projects have continued to be funded by UNDP, in close collaboration with other agencies and organizations.

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) review of the UNDP microfinance portfolio found that MicroStart is the most successful model in the entire UNDP portfolio, and that the design and technical management of UNCDF were key factors behind its success.

He called for the continuation of financial assistance from donor countries and UNDP.

Well, yes, you had a big aid program. Thank you very much.

32. UNIFEM provided technical assistance to the Governments of Nepal and Maldives to prepare action plans to implement the Platform for Action, and to incorporate gender into their national development plans.

Among those who used the Individualized Plan, 38 percent were receiving employment assistance benefits, 43 percent were receiving employment insurance benefits, while 19 percent were receiving no public income support.

1 Information was received from the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), ILO, IOM, OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNODC, UNOPS, WFP, WHO and the World Bank.