In the rural sector, community based initiatives bore testimony to the visible empowerment of women.

Other programmes included community based prevention initiatives, increased awareness campaigns and support for law enforcement officers.

To that end, government departments made grants available for community based initiatives to help disadvantaged women.

These included increased immunization coverage, initiatives to reduce school dropout rates, community based nutrition promotion, and micronutrient supplementation.

Where properly integrated into wider community initiatives, school based programmes also promote positive change in communities as a whole.

Sierra Leone could benefit from sustained support for community based economic initiatives, including in the context of ongoing recovery programmes.

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We have also supported a peacebuilding and women's empowerment programme, which seeks to promote community based trauma counselling initiatives, peacebuilding and reconciliation between communities.

A government policy was in place to address the transition from State imposed development policies to a system based on private and community initiatives.

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Family oriented initiatives are becoming more evidence based.

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These initiatives have undoubtedly deepened Asia s sense of community.

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In Kazakhstan the SPMU has provided technical assistance to transition to intelligence led policing, and has started discussions on developing new initiatives focusing on community based policing and basic recruit training.

We urge that such strategies be developed based on successful prevention initiatives.

Important initiatives have been undertaken to confront discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Initiatives such as the Community of Democracies may contribute to these goals.

3. Decides that the World Solidarity Fund will support requests received from Governments of developing countries for financing poverty alleviation projects, including initiatives from community based organizations and small private sector entities

With these and expected additional resources, the Special Unit aims to fund initiatives that will generate shareable knowledge on community based responses to natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

A policy option to complement that role is building partnerships with local authorities, community based organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector, particularly small scale service providers, to scale up sanitation initiatives.

The Community Support Framework remains the main financing means of intervention (through Sectoral and Regional Operational Programmes), together with Community Initiatives and other Community Programmes.

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In Benin, a law on decentralization encourages the promotion of volunteerism and community initiatives.

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At the country level, where UNICEF enjoys longstanding relationships and legitimacy with governments, the organization is uniquely positioned to link NGOs, community based organizations and the private sector with governments and facilitate more effective joint initiatives.

Malaysia gave emphasis to community based rehabilitation in rural areas.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

If we are to take climate change predictions seriously, the international community should strengthen these initiatives.

The international community and civil society need to associate themselves with the implementation of those initiatives.

Based on the results of the ICRIN study, in 2004 UNDP Ukraine launched a community based information campaign.

Notable developments in the integration of local and indigenous communities have included the establishment of community based management and ownership initiatives that are intended to generate income for local use and promote local responsibility for sustainable forest management.

The long term consequences of the Burundi crisis continue to require a combination of responses ranging from life saving activities to strengthening community based reconstruction initiatives and supporting reintegration in the short term for both returnees and IDPs.

To facilitate food production, cities have established community based farming projects.

(b) The importance of subnational and community based planning and budgeting.

The international community can help the Arab governments to launch and sustain such initiatives in several ways.

The Government has started to engage in community dialogue initiatives to rebuild trust and confidence between communities.

Community dialogue initiatives to rebuild trust and confidence between communities need to be taken by Kosovo's leaders.

1.160 25,000 refugees with disabilities will have been served by Community Rehabilitation Centres utilizing the Community Based Rehabilitation approach.

Ensuring the participation of women in community decision making processes, and in the planning and implementation of sanitation improvement initiatives, can increase the effectiveness and sustainability of such initiatives.

Better scientific information is crucial for improving our decision making and for better focusing our conservation based initiatives.

(b) Selection of three cities for implementation of pilot initiatives to incorporate effective mechanisms of community based urban safety at the city or district level, linked with poverty reduction programmes, and to apply lessons learned to national and regional support mechanisms