Social Enterprises Asia has emerged as a leader in social entrepreneurship.

Figure 2 below shows the distribution of the project proposals by emission sector.

In 2000, the micro enterprises training sector promoted training courses for small and medium entrepreneurs.

(f) Small and Microenterprise Training (SMET) (Gaza Strip only)

Most of the enterprises that have internationalized are large firms in resource and finance industries.

Experts emphasized the importance of the SME sector for economic development.

African Parties submitted 75 per cent of the project proposals in the agricultural sector.

Projects financed by MASPFE

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

The fisheries sector occupies an important place in the socio economic development of India.

While emerging markets are already significant and growing further, there is still a large potential to be tapped in developed country markets.

Parties in this region proposed 50 per cent of all forest sector projects.

The success of social entrepreneurship, which applies a business approach to a social concern, is identified as one underutilized solution for addressing youth unemployment.

The UNESCO education sector includes the development of national plans and programmes on human rights education through national and subregional projects.

It supports the development of the microenterprise and small scale business sector by providing working capital and capital investment loan products.

In the case of Mongolia, UNICEF support to key social sectors would be elevated from the project to programme level.

The Workshop explored the effect of the decentralization of forest sector processes on social, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions around the world.

Projects undertaken in the context of product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access have also focused to a large extent on the textiles and garments sector.

The objectives and activities of the project must be in conformity with the priority topics announced at the project competition of the Ministry of Social Affairs and should contribute to the reduction of gender inequality and promotion of equality.

The successes of social businesses such as Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh have contributed to renewed thinking about how social objectives can be fused with revenue generating practices.

Stability will require the accelerated disbursement of pledged financial resources, more rapid implementation of social and economic project activities, and peacebuilding initiatives.

In 2004 general social services will start preparing a number of pilot projects on domestic violence case management.

The Liberian diaspora, especially in the United States, is being actively encouraged by senior ministers to help rebuild the small and medium size enterprise sector.

As a result of the growth of women's participation in the self employed sector, self employed women represent 92 per cent of all women entrepreneurs (168,000 women).

The informal sector (i.e., small entrepreneurs, often self employed and operate outside of the formal sector) is large, particularly in developing countries.

New business partnerships are being fostered by the Special Unit as it organizes forums for African and Asian businesses to catalyse investment and technology transfer at the enterprise level.

In particular, more in depth analysis of this indicator could help assess the relative importance of B2B extranets for enterprise productivity.

It would also oversee mergers and acquisitions in the education sector, establish its own private equity and venture capital education investment funds, and operate as a fund of funds.

Saudi Arabia is boosting its spending on social and infrastructure investments substantially, as well as expanding oil sector capacity.

Recently, privacy consciousness has been rapidly rising and there have been related changes in the social environment, even in the business sector.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy continually supports such activities of the NGO sector and actively participates with its representatives.

In the social service sector, 80 of employees are women and 50 of managerial positions are held by women.

Health and social affairs represent a priority sector among the social sectors in the public investment programme (PIP) their share (8.4 per cent in 1999) is much higher than the share of current spending in the national operating budget.

4. Reaffirms that the achievement of the highest attainable level of health is a most important worldwide social goal, the realization of which requires action on the part of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector

Reaffirms that the achievement of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a most important worldwide social goal, the realization of which requires action by many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector

Under the Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, a Sector for Equal Opportunities will be established at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy within six months from the entry into force of this Law.

The Ministry of Social Affairs distributes the available state budget resources for the promotion of women's cooperation according to the project applications it has received and in doing so takes into account regional balance considerations.

Steps taken to guarantee payment, social security and social benefits for women who work without such benefits in enterprises owned by a family member.

Unfortunately, there is very little that economic policy can do to create a strong exporting sector in the short run, except alleviate the social pain.

Today, the capital, Baku, resembles a huge construction site, with high rise housing, stores, and roads being built at a breakneck pace and apparently benefiting the broad strata of the population.

The Commission recognizes the important contribution that the SME sector can make to job creation, economic growth and achieving the Millennium Declaration Goal of poverty reduction.

In particular, the legal implications of various types of humanitarian assistance, including the provision of temporary social services, merit careful consideration as part of the design phase of individual projects.

(a) ProFi substantive main modules (also known as ProFi phase 2) supporting all phases of the project life cycle project formulation, project portfolio, project clearance and project progress report

The second one is the labor policies that we have, which make it so difficult for entrepreneurs to create standardized jobs in companies, that 93 percent of Indian labor is in the unorganized sector.

Tools include seed funding, training, consultation services, interest free proposal development loans and more flexible mortgage loan insurance to facilitate the financing of affordable housing.