This same survey also discloses the fact that the majority of family units do not have essential services, such as essential electricity, sanitary services and essential goods necessary for human development.

Health systems ensuring universal access to essential services

This practice often denies women access to essential health services.

Distribution systems are essential for matching supply and demand in tourism services.

External resources allocated to essential health services, meanwhile, amounted to 11.6 per cent.

The humanitarian relief and essential services provided by UNRWA to the Palestinians remained vitally important.

Conflict destroys infrastructure and disrupts essential services, which has a negative impact on the livelihoods of women.

In their brutal attacks, civilian lives and livelihoods have been destroyed, as has infrastructure for essential services.

Improving education and access to reproductive health services was essential to redressing the situation of rural women.

General description The Programme provides a diverse range of essential services in support of all UNIDO activities, including procurement of goods and services, inventory and records management, and communications, travel, transportation and shipment services.

Those issues should not be permitted to inhibit the development of essential worldwide satellite services that were feasible.

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

Diverse and essential services include procurement of goods and services, communications, inventory and records management, travel and legal advice, all of which directly or indirectly support technical cooperation delivery.

Social sustainability evaluation criteria include such areas as employment (quality, including quality of employment and compliance with labour standards), equality and access to essential services such as energy services.

The majority of the planet's essential ecosystem services continued to be degraded and unsustainably managed, although the Millennium Project report had concluded that those services were essential to attaining the Millennium Development Goals and that their continued degradation significantly impaired the world's ability to achieve them by 2015.

The ACVZ therefore deems it essential to draw up national implementation guidelines, based on best practices among regional police services.

The Government's essential health package incorporated preventive, educational and clinical services delivered through the community, health centres and district hospitals.

Many speakers also raised concerns with regard to existing pressure on developing countries to liberalize the services sector, especially in respect of essential services such as water, energy, health and education.

Policies aimed at the prevention of delivery of essential services or assistance, including obstruction of aid delivery or access to food, water, sanitation or essential medical supplies in certain regions or targeting specific groups.

Benefits include premium free Alberta Health Care, dental care, eye care and glasses, prescriptions, essential diabetic supplies and emergency ambulance services.

General description Procurement provides essential services in support of all UNIDO technical cooperation programmes, and global forum and post crisis activities.

A few of the responses indicated the challenges encountered in outsourcing essential services, particularly the challenges of accountability and quality control.

The national Administration was still in charge of defining the essential level of services related to the nucleus of social rights.

Participants lamented that developing countries were pressed to liberalize the services sector, especially essential services such as water, energy, health and education, which reduced access to these sectors by poor people, particularly women.

Moreover, countries must further specify their human resources needs and develop innovative ways to provide essential services, particularly in the health sector.

Egypt did everything possible to provide refugees with essential services in the areas of education, health care and social welfare, but those services could be improved if the responsibility and the burden were shared.

At the same time, the people of the Territory lacked essential services and had to endure humiliating treatment by the Moroccan security forces.

Most service firms are traditional employers of women, and this includes government, which retains its essential function in providing services in developing countries.

The Committee is equally concerned about the broad definition of the concept of essential services , including professions such as teachers and postal workers.

It is also essential to change existing behaviours and practices, especially in countries with low quality services, through active community involvement and participation.

The setting up of joint public private sector arrangements, including tourist facilities and essential services to help promote tourism in the Territory.31

Of equal concern were the restrictions on the Palestinians' freedom of movement, which had cut off their access to employment, income and essential goods and services and had also seriously hampered the ability of United Nations humanitarian agencies, especially the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to provide essential services.

According to a study by the Ministry of Planning in 1997, however, entitled Consideration of the possibility of mobilizing additional resources for essential social services , an analysis of the distribution of public expenditure showed that the proportion allocated to social expenditure was of the order of 30 per cent and to essential health services around 15 per cent.

It also envisages the use of UNICEF procurement services, where appropriate, to promote the efficient and increased use of resources for essential commodities for children.

Trapped in poverty, many developing countries particularly African countries and least developed countries lack the essential resources for national infrastructure, social services and public management.

Priorities will include supporting delivery of essential services through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, and support to improve food security and rural livelihoods, health and education.

During the period 2006 2009, UNICEF will increasingly offer a mix of programme and procurement services to Governments as a unified basket of support that can have a positive impact on access by children and families to essential commodities and services.

28F.29 The General Support Section ensures the continuation of essential services in support of substantive programmes through the monitoring of building management services provided by UNIDO, and the provision of procurement, travel, transportation, inventory control, supply services, mail operations and other facility management functions for the Secretariat units located at the Vienna International Centre.

10. Recommends that outstanding infrastructure needs remain an essential focus of international assistance in such areas as the reconstruction and rehabilitation of public buildings, educational facilities, roads and public services

However, while these achievements were remarkable in the face of extremely different operating conditions, only 40 to 60 per cent of the total affected population were reached with essential services.

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.

Infrastructure provision and management The level and nature of investment by Governments in infrastructure and services essential for tourism can have a direct effect on the sustainability of the sector.

Thailand has achieved impressive gains in access to services essential for child survival and development, and in the process has come close to achieving virtually all the Millennium Development Goals.

This is one of a number of options for relieving external debt burdens in poor countries, including debt cancellation, in order to free resources for investments in essential infrastructure and services.

The promotion of gender equality in the work force is essential to any successful poverty reduction strategy, but equally important is the underlying fact that better working conditions, quality jobs, quality public services and other support services are fundamental in the promotion of equal opportunities for all.