Sustainable development managing and protecting our common environment

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

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

It is our shared responsibility to take comprehensive action to mobilize all available forces and raise sufficient funds for poverty eradication and common development.

Eliminating poverty and inequality and promoting sustainable development of the economy and the environment are our common goals.

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

The Commonwealth Development Corporation, the Netherlands Development Finance Company and the Asian Development Bank are among the numerous agencies involved in those activities.

Official development assistance and multilateral bank lending, though valuable, remain insufficient.

Development, security and human rights are indeed the three pillars of our common vision of the future.

We congratulate the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Inter Agency Standing Committee on their efforts to advance the cluster approach.

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.

But there is more reshaping to come, again fostered by mutual self interest, rather than by fiat.

The Inter Agency Network monitors and coordinates the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the programmatic, normative and operational work of the United Nations system.

The non governmental organization community appreciates the need to reformulate the relationship between all parties involved in the reconstruction effort to reflect this new context.

In that connection, given the development and security components of all post conflict peacebuilding efforts, we cannot but concur with the proposal to place the Peacebuilding Commission under the joint authority of the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council but to establish it by the authority of the General Assembly.

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.

In that regard, the African Union Commission will work on the following aspects of the declaration joint management of shared waters for agricultural development, environmental protection, water supply and sanitation.

Taking note of the report of the United Nations Inter agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace,

The representative of Nepal advocated translating into more effective action the concept of shared responsibility in the development sphere.

In 2003, through the Ministry for Agrarian Development (MDA), the Government made joint title to land a reality.

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.

3. Recognizes that only through broad and sustained efforts at all levels, including policies and measures at the national and global levels to create a shared future based upon a common humanity in all its diversity, can globalization be made fully inclusive and equitable and thus have a positive impact on development

It is necessary to respect the historical traditions of multinational States, promote peaceful coexistence and the joint development of different peoples, and also make efforts to defend State unity.

In line with the spirit of Monterrey, we agree that there is a need to focus our joint efforts on finding effective, realistic and balanced development financing mechanisms.

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.