Gender disparities in respect of access to technical assistance are significant.

(p) To give appropriate priority to the collection of quantitative and qualitative data relating to disparities in education, including gender disparities

The Committee expressed concern about continuing gender disparities regarding educational choices of boys and girls.

(f) To prevent and eliminate gender and urban rural disparities in school attendance and completion rates

However, by eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education, it had fulfilled Millennium Development Goal 3.

And there are still too many disparities based on gender, location, wealth, disability, and other markers of marginalization.

Make use of a base of indicators for tracking the success of programmes and projects to reduce gender disparities.

However, there are other gender disparities in education that need addressing, some of which have been highlighted in this Report.

In other words, policies designed to enhance professionalism should be implemented pari passu with those aimed at redressing gender disparities.

While we have managed to reduce gender disparities in education and have succeeded in improving access to sanitation and other basic facilities, great disparities remain in the levels of development both within and among our countries.

Education for All goal 5 on the elimination of gender disparities in education by 2005 and on the achievement of gender equality by 2015 is directly linked to access and quality education issues.

Key result area 2 seeks to reduce gender based and other disparities in relation to increased access, participation and completion of quality basic education.

Its implementation would therefore result in the elimination of gender disparities in primary and secondary education as called for by the Millennium Development Goals.

Addressing health disparities

Poverty, disparities and gender based and other inequalities are underlying factors preventing families from ensuring care and protection for their children in most poor countries.

The Council had been successful in integrating gender issues into the national plan for social and economic development for 2002 2007, thus enabling women to participate fully in the development process and to eliminate gender disparities.

The Global Health Initiative, for example, uses American taxpayer money to offset the gender related inequalities and disparities that disproportionately compromise the health of women and girls.

UNESCO activities included a 110,000 project aimed at eliminating gender disparities, implemented with the Ministries of Education and Higher Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Women's Affairs.

As it is critically important to know how health and education services are used according to gender, so that disparities can be identified and narrowed, UNICEF supports improved collection of gender disaggregated data including through its multiple indicator cluster surveys (MICS).

These frameworks make it possible to address gender disparities in access and quality and to make use of successful approaches, such as community schools in Egypt, for scaling up.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Deeper social disparities should never be viewed as the inevitable price of rapid growth, and more egalitarian outcomes in education, health, and gender should not be considered second stage reforms.

To promote this, the target envisages that at least 90 per cent of programme countries will have national and subnational plans which include measures to reduce gender and other disparities.

The three components are (a) increasing access and participation, especially in areas marked by geographical and gender disparities (b) raising relevance and quality (c) improving resource mobilization, allocation and accountability.

Policies based on generalities will not work. To initiate a fundamental shift in citizens gender related attitudes and behavior, India s leaders must understand by the numbers the often dramatic disparities between their country s individual states.

But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

Gender reviews are now widely used, together with advocacy for the removal of financial barriers to poor families in sending girls to school and the use of disaggregated data to reveal hidden disparities , especially in Latin America.

Corresponding targets require that by 2015, all children should be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that gender disparities be eliminated in primary and secondary education by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

Deeply concerned about the disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications of these disparities for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

Disparities and inequalities stand in the way of countries' achieving the Goals.

Where data cannot be disaggregated by gender and other attributes that may be key to assessing progress and disparities, efforts will be made to ensure that adequate attention is given to improving systems for future availability and use of such data.

Noting further the prevailing industrial gap and disparities between developed and developing countries,

Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

It is clear, then, that there are still a series of gender disparities in Guinea when it comes to the exercise of power, where women fall far short of the 30 per cent of positions recommended in 1995 by the United Nations ECOSOC.

These changes hit the poorest the hardest, and global trends mask deep regional disparities.

Some disparities had occurred in the calculation of conversion rates to United States dollars.

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

Indeed, the segregation caused by the land system has enlarged rather than narrowed social disparities.

However, disparities between rural and urban populations persisted, and terrorist activities had undermined development efforts.

The target set by the new five year plan is thus also a policy manifesto to battle these social disparities, which are now a burning issue for the country. But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Thus, regional disparities in terms of economic prosperity may never narrow indeed, they could often widen.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.