In rural areas, the woman is consulted on some decision making within the family.

Tajikistan is pursuing a policy that provides family planning services to rural women.

Ms. Moufarrej (Lebanon) said that the figures showed that there had been improvements in the situation of rural women, in terms of numbers of family members, use of family planning, political participation and education, which was currently being extended to the remoter rural areas.

Table 18 Poverty structure of households in rural areas, by sex of head of household

Rural women's low level of participation in decision making both within the family and in society stems mainly from sociocultural inhibitions and attitudes, a lack of civic and economic education, a lack of financial resources, passivity and timidity on the part of women and the excessive demands on their time owing to their multiple roles as mothers, wives and agents of development.

In recent years, the Government of Vietnam has carried out many measures to develop the household economic sector, especially in rural areas.

(b) Rural women have equal access to medical care, including family planning information, counselling and services.

On the other hand, it is an old custom in the rural areas of Vietnam that the husband is usually head of household.

It is specifically for the purpose of expanding the rural population's access to family planning services that the Ministry of Health is employing the practice of training midwives who work in rural areas.

She wondered whether they received information on family planning and whether the State party envisaged encouraging doctors to practice in rural areas or facilitating the travel of rural women to health centres.

The total demand for Family Planning Services (PF) in the urban areas is three times greater (24 ) than in rural areas (8 ).

The majority of women in rural areas in Pakistan have a family planning facility within 2 kilometers of their place of residence.

Furthermore, adequate sexual education and family planning services should be available throughout the country, especially in rural areas and for adolescent girls.

However, it is a reality in rural areas that when families run into financial problems, girls, rather than boys, has to drop out from school for work.

The first goal should be to distribute long lasting insecticide treated bed nets to all of Africa s rural poor within four years.

The family took part in fighting the Qaisi family in an alliance with a rural lord of the Jerusalem area Mustafa Abu Ghosh, who clashed with the tribe frequently.

However, in most rural areas, use of contraceptives is low and the decision on family planning is left mostly to women.

Between 1998 and 2005, Indonesia trained Africans from a number of countries in such diverse fields as family planning and health, rural development, agriculture, forestry and microfinance.

(h) Mobilizing resources, including at the national level and through official development assistance, for increasing women's access to existing savings and credit schemes, as well as targeted programmes that provide women with capital, knowledge and tools that enhance their economic capacities

Although people in rural areas have usually been considered to hold more traditional family values, the proportion of cohabiting partnerships among the rural population is higher than among urban inhabitants.

The Republic of Tajikistan, recognizing the difficult problems facing women living in rural areas and taking into account the importance of their contribution to the well being of the family and to the development of society, is taking appropriate measures to improve the protection of the rights of rural women.

Its critical areas of concern were gender equality in family welfare and development rural development gender equality in decision making the establishment of national mechanisms and increased participation of women in civil society.

The Ministry of the Family has promoted a number of family education initiatives.

The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.04.

This programme provides effective social safety net to 1.25 million poorest of the poor households, designed to meet basic nutritional requirements of the poor, covers urban as well as rural areas, recognises women as far as possible as the beneficiary in the household.

(Rural Women)

Unity of a family

Family earnings

Family Planning

Family Planning

The family as a group

Family and school

Family law.

I, resolution 1, annex.

Family Cohesion

Family Law

In the United States a family often will use mediation instead of a family court.

Development of Family Institution NCWT promotes the development of the family institution within Thai society.

The provision of family planning services in the city differs from that in rural areas, because the centres for reproductive health that have been set up are located mainly in cities and districts, which limits the broad access of the rural population to those types of medical services.

Rural and agricultural development

Rural Women and Poverty

Integrating gender principles in all of the MDGs.

The Rural Health Project.

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

Family related benefits