Conflict prevention is central to efforts to combat poverty and promote sustainable development.

The previous analysis highlights the multiple challenges facing Palestinian development efforts.

In a world roiled by conflict, development efforts will always fall short.

The secret behind Sweden s successful development, and hence people s attitudes, is how the costs of change are distributed.

Efforts had been made to incorporate a rights based approach in development cooperation.

For Europe, this means that money that would otherwise go to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance can largely be saved and used in part for development.

More generally, efforts to include refugees and returnees in development programmes included UNHCR's Development Assistance for Refugees (DAR) initiative.

These efforts, however, require a comprehensive approach and joint action by all of the country's development partners.

The education of girls is a particularly important and efficacious component of successful human development efforts.

This causes severe hardships and jeopardizes development efforts, including the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

That amounted to a major economic jolt and was likely to undermine their efforts to achieve sustainable development.

The United Nations Global Compact initiative provides the enabling context for the private sector to participate actively in the development effort.

The challenge for development efforts is to find methods that allow individuals and communities to solve their own problems the ability of a community to take on more complex social issues is a key indicator of progress.

And we must stand against protectionism. Without open trade, growth and development could break down entirely.

The conflict s end would also bolster development efforts in Colombia already a model of democracy and political and economic stability.

In the late 1970s, wells were drilled at Kufra and at Sabha as part of a major agricultural development effort.

Increased efforts must be made to ensure that future industrial development is based on environmentally sustainable and economically appropriate production systems.

It was time to demand that priority should be given to more effective social investment efforts in all national development strategies.

There does not appear to have been any consistent effort to gather this work and analyse it as a body of work affecting the right to development.

Serious efforts must be made to help countries achieve social development through the provision of both technical and financial resources.

The Syrian Arab Republic recently created the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs to improve the family's ability to participate in human development efforts.

Our utmost priority at the moment is to restore peace and order, put development efforts back on track and provide opportunities for all to realize their potential.

Considerable efforts have been made to promote rural development and a public agenda for indigenous peoples based on the principles of interculturalism has been adopted.

The international community must extend its cooperation to strengthen national efforts for free and fair elections, as well as to complement national development efforts.

The Declaration recommits Governments to one of the basic tenets of the Copenhagen Declaration that people must be at the centre of development efforts.

I take this opportunity to commend, on behalf of the Government of Lebanon, the efforts of the command and members of UNIFIL and the efforts and sacrifices made by the States participating in UNIFIL in carrying out the Force's mandate.

The importance for the sustainability of development efforts of good governance, well functioning democratic institutions and full respect for human rights and the rule of law cannot be underestimated.

24. Recognizes that the contribution of non governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders in national development efforts, as well as in the promotion of the global partnership for development, should be enhanced

Recognizes that the contribution of non governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders in national development efforts, as well as in the promotion of the global partnership for development, should be enhanced

Recognizes that the contribution of non governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders in national development efforts, as well as in the promotion of the global partnership for development, should be enhanced

Recognizing that Mozambique is prone to natural disasters which can have a negative impact upon its development efforts,

(b) To focus attention on the reconstruction and institution building efforts necessary for recovery from conflict and to support the development of integrated strategies in order to lay the foundation for sustainable development

Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.

Qatar hosted the Doha International Conference on Ageing in April 2005 to create awareness of the needs of older persons and their potential to participate in social development efforts.

(b) To focus attention on the reconstruction and institution building efforts necessary for recovery from conflict and to support the development of integrated strategies in order to lay the foundation for sustainable development

It was therefore disappointing that Armenia viewed the efforts of a neighbouring State to promote regional development and growth as an attempt to isolate it.

(c) The importance, in order to complement national development efforts, of the implementation of the commitment to enhance the coherence and consistency of international monetary, financial and trading systems

The truth is that ever since the end of the 1970 s, China has become convinced that peace and stability are the most important preconditions for its development.

(c) The importance, in order to complement national development efforts, of the implementation of the commitment to enhance the coherence and consistency of international monetary, financial and trading systems

A review of the country's main socio economic indicators shows that greater efforts are needed to achieve higher levels of economic and social development.

But the reality of globalization confronts us with the certainty that development does not depend merely on a country's conviction and efforts.

To anchor the return of those forcibly displaced to their communities of origin, the Office will continue to ensure linkages between broader development efforts and humanitarian assistance.

The priorities of development efforts, including those of the provincial reconstruction teams, must be aligned with those of the Afghan Government.

During the Water for Life Decade, special emphasis will be placed on ensuring the participation and involvement of women in water related development efforts, as called for in the resolution.

16. Stresses the importance of enhanced and predictable financing to ensure the sustainability of the development and poverty eradication efforts of developing countries