It was stressed that the Invest in Peace programme should be extended to other such countries, with the assistance of UNCTAD's IPR programme.

General comments on the IPR programme

Micro credit Community Support Programme

Wesleyan University has a Science in Society program.

Periodic consultation with civil society representatives will contribute to a further enhancement of the Committee's programme of cooperation with civil society.

The former include the decentralization of FDI promotion, the development of training programmes for staff involved in investment promotion, and initiatives to educate civil society about FDI and its development impact.

And what I've found is, rather than investing their money in food subsidies and other things, they invested in a school feeding program.

The private sector should be encouraged to make investments in social sectors and provide civil society organizations with support to carry out programmes.

Discussions on investment issues with representatives of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were held on two occasions in Brussels and Gaborone.

Food Support programme for the poorest sections has been re vitalised.

In response, the Government, working together with Parliament, universities, the communications media and civil society organizations, was implementing a programme aimed at changing society's attitudes.

Experts underscored the significance of information technology for improving governance in investment promotion and the need to provide support to developing countries through programmes such as the UNCTAD Investment Gateway.

The Good Governance in Investment Promotion programme, the linkages programme, the Invest in Peace initiatives and the Blue Books were all designed to help countries in their efforts to implement the IPRs' recommendations.

Hence, the Brazil without Homophobia Program, in partnership with civil society, was launched in 2004.

The UNCTAD secretariat concluded the discussions by stressing that it would follow up on all the proposals made regarding the improvement of the IPR programme.

The secretariat informed the Commission that the IPR programme was undergoing an evaluation by a donor country, for the purpose of improving its impact and methodology.

The international community can play an important role in supporting OFDI from developing countries.

What the international community needs to do is to come together on a program of action aimed at producing a result.

Indeed, China has done this by expanding its qualified domestic institutional investor program to allow more investment abroad.

In addition, the Local Governance Unit was rebranded' as UNCDF Local Development. Projecting a focus on local development allows UNCDF to better reflect its comprehensive support through the local governance approach to local development, by piloting activities with local governments, ensuring alignment of these activities with sectoral and other forms of deconcentration, and, to supportinging national decentralization policies and regulatory frameworks.

That was why the international community needed to adopt specific and targeted measures to help improve the investment climate in this continent.

Thinking ahead, it should be a priority for the international community to achieve a programme of work.

It called on the international community to seize the opportunity to translate the Brussels Programme into reality.

The international community must give priority to implementing the Almaty Programme of Action adopted in 2003.

The international community's commitment to realizing the goals of the World Programme of Action for Youth must therefore be strengthened and implemented, with the participation of youth.

A delegation noted that, under the UNCTAD least developed countries (LDC) programme, Benin had signed a bilateral treaty for investment promotion and protection.

Grants are made directly to community based organizations (CBOs) and non governmental organizations (NGOs) in developing countries, and are approved by the SGP at the national level, administered by UNDP.

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

The aim is for each school, in conjunction with the community, to assess its own needs and to conceive and build its own peace programme.

The Security Council recalls the need for an effective programme of reintegration to be quickly implemented with the support as appropriate of the international community.

A liberal foreign investment law was approved in June 1994, and a law on privatisation was adopted in 1997, as well as a program of state property privatisation.

Actions undertaken included Apprenticeship investments Increased funding of apprenticeships to 2007 2008 to support increased participation Investments in a pre apprenticeship training initiative to help prepare individuals for careers in the skilled trades and Investments in the Apprenticeship Enhancement Fund Program, which provides funding to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, to acquire up to date equipment, update facilities and to support increased apprenticeship placements.

The European Investment Bank, which received a significant capital increase in 2012, should add a large investment support program for medium size enterprises to its current operations, with a subsidy financed from the European budget to encourage first time job takers for a limited period.

The United Nations Volunteers is collaborating with the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University to implement the volunteer component of the Handbook.

Their assets will remain frozen and they will effectively be unable to rejoin Afghan society (a key component of the reconciliation programme).

Today's debates about growth in Europe are full of buzz words like knowledge based society, technological progress, and investment in education.

However, meeting Iraq's immediate reconstruction and humanitarian needs, and investing in its long term development, will require continued and generous support from the international community.

Meanwhile,the UN Environment Program reports that global investment in renewable energy totaled only 257 billion in 2011.

It was essential that the international community should do all within its power to implement the Almaty Programme of Action and achieve the goals set.

The Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme assists the international community and Governments concerned in monitoring the extent and evolution of the illicit cultivation of narcotic crops.

The Programme to Strengthen Peace launched by the Government of Afghanistan (see para. 16 above) would allow former insurgents back into mainstream Afghan society.

In addition, I urge the international community to help secure the necessary funds to successfully implement the programme.

14. Expresses its appreciation to non governmental organizations and other relevant sectors of civil society for their support to the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme

The success of the Almaty Programme of Action would depend on support from the international community, including financial and development institutions and donor countries.

In view of the importance that Brazil attached to the activities carried out under the Investment Policy Review Programme, and the interest shown in the Investment Policy Review of Brazil, he requested that its presentation be postponed until the second half of 2005.