In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

Rural and agricultural development

Integrating gender principles in all of the MDGs.

Rural development and agriculture

Viable and integrated development of rural areas

Programme Component E.2 Rural and Women's Entrepreneurship Development

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

Rural Development (Laos) total village development managing and monitoring weaving materials bank and cattle bank.

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

(d) Organizing regional forums for stakeholders to launch the knowledge management networks for rural communities

The majority of work is focused on training events which contribute to personal development training seminars, study trips and leadership seminars are organised, the activities of rural women's societies are supported in villages, etc.

Economic development Association of Women Shopkeepers and Traders of the Niger Action for Integrated Rural Developments and Support for social and economic activities of rural women, among others

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

Rural development program is embedded in the targeted interventions pillar of the strategy.

(a) Report of the Secretary General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (E 2005 60)

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board

Agriculture was the backbone of Ethiopia's economy, and its development strategy centred on rural and agricultural development.

The UNDP programme for rural and economic development involved investments of some 5 million in new projects for land reclamation and integrated rural development.

These factories become the focal point of rural development in the area of operation.

The regional commissions are also aware of the information needs for promoting successful rural development and an entrepreneurial base in rural communities.

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

We are strengthening the export sector, promoting investments to create jobs and speeding up rural economic development.

Rural Development (Laos) establishing and managing weaving materials bank and cattle bank supplying electric equipment.

However, it needed to be supported by a microcredit system focused on rural and agricultural development.

Given that 70 per cent of people in extreme poverty live in rural areas, renewed focus should be placed on rural and agricultural development.

Both sides will also discuss victims rights, rural development and the participation of FARC in Colombia s democratic process.

Rural women's participation in preparing and implementing development plans at all levels can be seen in the following facts

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 purpose of the Rural Development Foundation is to help agricultural producers and other enterprises in rural areas by granting them additional securities to obtain loans from credit institutions for developing economic activities and purchasing of land.

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

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

For the biennium 2008 2009, it was decided that CSD sessions should focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought and desertification.

Efforts to narrow the gap between rural and urban development and proposals concerning self employment were also frequently cited.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

To support the socio economic empowerment of rural women and their full participation, UNIDO also assists women to organize business associations to facilitate access to finance.

The services addressing the development of rural and women's entrepreneurship draw on the fact that sustainable poverty reduction requires the creation of industrial productive capacities based on a dynamic transition from agricultural to rural non farm activities.

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.

Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurship development (with special focus on rural and women's entrepreneurship), the development of horizontal and vertical SME networks for ensuring job creation and income generation, and the strengthening of agro based and agro related industries.

Azerbaijan supports strengthening the role of the United Nations in global economic governance and in its capacity to promote development.

The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a survey conducted by the Rural Development Institute on non agricultural entrepreneurship in 2001, which showed that there is a lack of workers whose qualifications meet the demands of employers in the rural areas.

More than half the reports make the point that integrated rural development provides an appropriate framework for implementing cooperation policies.

In order to solve problems that hindered rural development, Estonia used the financing from the SAPARD programme toward improving agricultural competitiveness and developing rural life environment, entrepreneurship and infrastructure.

Commercial credit this institution has contracts with the PASAL development project, which has organized vendors into cooperatives, where members contribute guarantee funds that allow them to draw significant amounts.

Adopting methodologies and approaches for analysing, valorizing, enhancing places and specific resources around which to organize territorial development.