Developed countries can provide limited help by means of well focused, untied aid and technical assistance projects.

So building clean government means, yes, provide money to the budget, but also provide a lot of scrutiny, which means a lot of technical assistance that follows the money.

Increasing use is being made of information and communication technology as a means of supporting research and delivering technical assistance inputs.

A means test is a determination of whether an individual or family is eligible for government assistance, based upon whether the individual or family possesses the means to do without that help.

With respect to Free Legal Assistance, the Bill provides for the possibility of full legal assistance, including legal counseling or information on the rights of women as a means of guaranteeing access to justice.

The developed countries should meet the target percentages for official development assistance instead of using them as a means of applying political pressure.

Both parties insist that they do not have the means to sustain their monitors and have requested international assistance.

This means that we will spend 658 million next year and 773 million on official development assistance in 2007.

This means they can also draw on available facilities, such as shelter, medical assistance, and financial and legal support.

(e) Ensure that aid and assistance reach vulnerable groups by means of transparent monitoring and accountability, supported by unimpeded access by humanitarian organizations.

Other means of denying humanitarian assistance have developed in Somalia, where aid ships are subject to piracy and aid convoys have been attacked.

My Government is now working out a long term plan to increase and improve official development assistance within our means.

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Helicopters are the only means to ensure access, with obvious implications for the effectiveness and cost of providing assistance to the population in need.

In civil matters, free legal assistance' depends on satisfying the means and merit tests and the Office prioritizes cases as follows

For our part, the Government and the people of Malaysia will continue to extend assistance, within our limited means and capacity, to the people of Palestine.

Because of its focus on development assistance and poverty alleviation, UNDP supports electoral assistance as a primary means for all citizens especially the poor, women and other disadvantaged sectors of society to participate in and influence government policy and practice.

Hence, providing them with a standardised means of doing so may be of assistance to them and enable others to also provide such information should they wish.

She asked whether Benin received development assistance for the education and the training of girls and women, which was among the best means of achieving sustainable development.

We have never had as many means of communication, means of being connected, means of reaching out, means of including.

In that regard, Malaysia would continue to contribute within its means to the work of UNRWA, over and above its bilateral assistance to the Palestinian people.

Against this backdrop, it is essential that not only the Monterrey pledges of increased official development assistance are realized, but also that increased official development assistance means a real increase in financial resources in support of the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

During their deliberations, Member States stressed the need for the provision of means of implementation, including official development assistance and technology transfer, in order to achieve sustainable development.

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Additionally, the partnership between the Electoral Assistance Division and UNDP, as detailed in the note of guidance on electoral assistance (A 56 344, annex II), remains one of the most important means of ensuring consistency and coordination in the electoral work of the United Nations.

The self reliance of refugees is a vital means to reduce dependence on humanitarian assistance and to prepare refugees for durable solutions, particularly in protracted refugee situations.

I therefore encourage the Transitional Government to explore practical means by which the international community might provide immediate assistance to expedite some of the most sensitive cases.

Assistance to smaller firms with little experience in investment projects abroad and with limited financial means is particularly important, especially in the first stages of the investment process.

For Europe, this means that money that would otherwise go to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance can largely be saved and used in part for development.

For us developed countries that means significantly stepping up our official development assistance (ODA) and establishing timetables to reach the agreed ODA target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

With respect to the objective To make proposals on possible means of regulation and international supervision of the activities of private companies offering military assistance, consultancy and security services on the international market

Increasingly, however, the Canadian International Development Agency was contributing funds for mine action from Canada's official development assistance envelope, as an effective means of helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

1. Each State Party shall take appropriate measures within its means to provide assistance and protection to victims of offences covered by this Convention, in particular in cases of threat of retaliation or intimidation.

The use of a probation period during which institutions undertake test projects provides a means of ascertaining if any given organization has the tools to carry out technical assistance in a particular region.

The report of the High level Panel will ensure that debate and discussion on the most effective means of providing international and United Nations assistance to weak and post conflict States will intensify.

Means of delivery

We also applaud those developed country partners that have achieved the official development assistance donor targets and those that continue to seek innovative means to supplement development financing shortfalls.

The Special Committee recommends that the Secretary General provide to the Committee at its next session a comprehensive strategy for assistance to victims of sexual exploitation and abuse, including means for financial compensation.

We appeal to the international community to find ways and means to provide additional financial assistance for that demilitarization project, which is considered to be an integral part of Ukraine's nuclear disarmament programme.

The efforts of developing countries to obtain the necessary capacity and means to strengthen their own responses to crises continue to be frustrated by declining levels of official development assistance and lack of foreign direct investment.

Population assistance as a proportion of official development assistance

Traditional means of communication

Traditional means of communication

Means of delivery domain

The Committee notes with concern that the means tested non contributory social assistance extended to all urban areas starting in 1996 was similarly extended to some, but not all rural areas.