The projects focus mainly on fisheries, water management, animal production and income generating activities.

Employment and income generating activities

Development agencies and partners should redouble their efforts in designing quick impact economic projects in the communities, with a view to generating employment and income.

The promotion of income generating activities and the involvement of local communities in the implementation of projects are advocated as means of furthering poverty reduction.

The country's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) incorporated the gender perspective, and women were able to finance income generating projects using a variety of microcredit facilities.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from capacity building in agricultural production and horticulture to income generating activities and microcredit.

The feasibility of potential income generating activities has been tested.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from capacity building in agricultural and health issues to income generating activities and marketing strategies.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from capacity building in agricultural and health and nutrition issues to income generating activities, rehabilitation and marketing strategies.

(d) To provide essential health services, equipment and supplies and skills training and income generating projects to young women and girls so that they can break out of a cycle of poverty

Activities cover pre school activities, literacy courses for women and income generating activities.

Support for women's income generating activities, for 2.91 billion in 1998 and 2001.

While such investment in long term productive assets like infrastructure is essential to generating the income that these investors demand, less than 1 of pension fund assets are allocated directly to infrastructure projects.

Poverty reduction programmes are now focusing on women's associations for promoting income generating activities.

Ecuador had received credits from UNHCR to meet the social, educational and health care needs of the refugees in particular and to create income generating activities through local assistance projects intended to promote social integration.

The vast majority of economically active people are dependent on informal employment and income generating activities.

Identifying income generating activities related to the production, generation or use of energy in rural areas.

Women residing in the shelters have been offered income generating opportunities following educational and professional training.

This has been advanced as a model for generating income from a tropical forest without destroying it.

Measures must move beyond overall social needs to bolster progress in productive job creating and income generating sectors.

Only with improved access to food, water, health care, schools, and income generating livelihoods can peace be achieved.

Unfortunately, in today s world it is almost impossible to find viable income generating activities without access to electricity.

The African Development Bank has financed a project to support income generating activities for women, covering four components

Studying the feasibility and demonstrating the social and economic viability of the different energy generating approaches Encouraging sustainable local enterprises that can deliver reliable energy services based on renewable energy technologies Identifying income generating activities related to the production generation or use of energy in rural areas Encouraging local manufacturing and construction enterprises to participate in energy projects.

From 1998 to 30 June 2001, OPIP financed 14 million GF in funding for 15 projects, generating 225 jobs.

(b) Increase in Member States' national capacity to formulate, execute and evaluate appropriate schemes for alternative income generating opportunities

Despite all the problems, women in almost every ethnic group in the Niger do carry out income generating activities.

The government of Pakistan is supporting a number of initiatives that aim at increasing income generating capacities of Pakistani women.

The areas of work are in the field of Education, Emergency Assistance, Health and Nutrition, Income Generating Activities, and Social Services.

Growth with equity had always been the thrust of Malaysia's development planning, with emphasis on efforts to enhance income generating opportunities.

A number of participants drew attention to the importance of the private sector in generating income and employment and eradicating poverty.

UNMIL has, for instance, conducted a mapping exercise of women's organizations involved in small income generating businesses to support their networking.

(a) Strengthen the Programme to Eradicate Child Labour by supporting income generating initiatives for the families of children attended by the programme

Private sector participants and some Member States stressed the importance of the private sector in generating income and employment to eradicate poverty.

Such programmes also provide income generating opportunities and relate to coping strategies in relation with population pressure, water scarcity, poverty and migration.

In paragraph 134, the Board recommended that UNHCR review its priorities in order to ensure that sufficient resources are devoted to income generating activities, with a view to increasing the fund raising income.

It welcomed the efforts of UNRWA to promote income generating activities, particularly at a time when the Palestinian economy was continuing to deteriorate.

Afro Colombians continued to be victims of racial discrimination and exclusion, as regards access to health, livelihood, social security, education and income generating activities.

Aimed in particular at women and girls, they dealt, among other things, with water supply, literacy instruction, training in income generating activities and microcredit.

The Guinean Business Women's Group (GFAG) and the Association of Guinean Women Entrepreneurs (AFEG) provide training and coaching for women in income generating activities.

Given the sizeable number of internally displaced persons who, by now, are generating their own income, efforts to enhance self sufficiency are also reinforced.

Consequently, despite women's commitment to carrying out an income generating activity, they do not mobilize enough resources to undertake activities on a larger scale.

If independent farming was their income generating work, it was not clear if they had proper access to water and could market their produce.

Often they travel great distances in search of water, which limits their time for other activities, including growing and preparing food and income generating work.

Halting land degradation and promoting environmental rehabilitation should, to the extent possible, involve vulnerable and marginalized groups by creating opportunities for alternative income generating activities.