Indigenous strategies to combat poverty

To combat poverty you need others.

In order to combat poverty, a number of Parties have developed special poverty programmes.

The combat against poverty must remain the cornerstone of our actions.

It was essential to allocate more funds to the Convention to Combat Desertification in order to combat poverty and achieve sustainable development.

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

The Committee notes with appreciation the establishment of a Commission on Poverty to devise in this connection future strategies to combat poverty.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and or Desertification, Particularly in Africa was a useful tool to combat poverty.

The key question is are we able to combat poverty, disease, environmental degradation, terrorism and violence?

The second national action plan (NAP) to combat poverty and social exclusion was published in 2003.

The Government has also taken a number of initiatives to combat poverty at the grassroots level.

at para. 21 see also Global Mechanism, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000).

The Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion was unanimously adopted by the National Assembly in 2002.

That will create opportunities for employment, the transfer of know how and markets to combat the debilitating poverty.

The Program to Combat Poverty The government chose Quilombo Kalunga as a pilot project for quilombo communities' development.

The right to social security was reinforced by the enactment of the Act to combat poverty and social exclusion.

These alternatives should be embedded in national strategies to reduce poverty and in national action programmes to combat desertification.

Benin believed that the contribution of the Convention to Combat Desertification to reducing extreme poverty must be better analysed.

Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000), http www.gm unccd.org English DOCS GMe.pdf.

This law led to the national strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion, which has as its primary objective to progressively reduce poverty in Québec to the level of industrialized nations with the least amount of poverty by 2013.

To attain this goal, a government action plan to combat poverty and social exclusion was made public in April of 2004.

El Salvador welcomes the initiative of Algeria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany and Spain to intensify efforts to combat hunger and poverty.

The welfare system, which was created to combat poverty, has been less effective against diseases of affluence like heart disease and lung cancer.

(a) Continue to strengthen its policies and programmes to combat the factors responsible for the increasing number of children living in extreme poverty

Investment in health is also vital for social integration public health policy can directly influence social development, combat poverty and reduce social exclusion.

The purpose of this Act is to encourage the government and all of Quebec society to plan and implement measures to combat poverty, eliminate the causes of poverty, reduce its effects on individuals and families, counter social exclusion and aim for a Québec without poverty.

But a theoretical doubling of African aid by 2010 with the possibility of even more after that offers a huge opportunity to combat poverty.

Mr. Muda (Malaysia) said that little had been achieved, despite all the recent international commitments and global awareness of the need to combat poverty.

Requests Chin sung Chung to prepare a working paper on The challenges of women's participation in policies and strategies to combat poverty and extreme poverty , and to submit it for consideration at the 2006 Social Forum

Requests Ms. Chin sung Chung to prepare a working paper on The challenges of women's participation in policies and strategies to combat poverty and extreme poverty , and to submit it for consideration at the 2006 Social Forum

UFER actively follows the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and all matters related to efforts to combat racism and poverty.

The Haitian interlocutors and the members of the Council mission alike stressed the need for a long term strategy to promote development and combat poverty.

It is based on an earlier emergency programme and includes priority needs set out by the Government in the context of the combat against poverty.

In 2003, in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, the Brazilian Government proposed the creation of an international fund to combat hunger and poverty.

Aiming to encourage greater attention to the production and use of spirulina for the reduction of hunger and poverty and to combat the food crises,

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable.

It is precisely in order to improve the distribution of income that we are promoting the implementation of a national strategy to combat poverty and inequality.

The Committee urges HKSAR to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion, in particular with regard to disadvantaged and marginalized groups and older persons.

The Deputy Prime Minister highlighted many important initiatives introduced by the Government of Thailand to combat trafficking in drugs, poverty and corruption as impediments to development.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next. By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

In December 2003, the Government of Italy announced the launching of a special programme to combat land degradation and poverty in Africa in the framework of NEPAD.

A closely related goal of the Millennium Declaration is to promote gender equality and empower women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease (MDG 7).

Events include open debate conferences on the themes Sport and physical education for health protection , Sport and women and Using sport and physical education to combat poverty .

These organizations are making a significant contribution to the economic advancement of women, because they work at the grassroots level to reduce social inequality and combat poverty.