The National Health Policy now places a renewed emphasis on rural areas.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

Tajikistan is pursuing a policy that provides family planning services to rural women.

She asked whether the Government's focus on law reform and policy programmes applied to rural women.

However all recent policy documents of the Government such as the Education Sector Reforms Programme, the National Health Policy etc. place special emphasis on the rural areas.

At this stage there is still not a clear energy policy for bringing decentralised power to rural areas.

The new policy documents of the Ministry of Education and Health place an explicit focus on the rural areas. The main micro credit providing institutions also have a pronounced emphasis on rural areas.

The main objective of the Coordinating Agency is to build a national policy on rural education that addresses the specific characteristics of the different communities that comprise the rural environment in the country.

The Bank s policy work has re affirmed the notion that rural producer organizations are fundamental building blocks of agricultural development.

Ms. Fye Hydara (Gambia) said it was true that the Government of the Gambia lacked an overall rural development policy.

During this period, the Vietnamese State places great premium on development of social welfare policy, especially for rural and remote areas.

10 Household food security implications for policy and action for rural poverty alleviation and nutrition , International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1996.

Lack of unified village development policy deters investments in farming, while possibilities for other kinds of employment in rural areas are minimal.

Improving the situation of rural women through economic advancement is one of the fundamental objectives of the Agricultural Development Policy Letter (ADPL).

Social equity is a consistent policy pursued by the State and Government of Vietnam, which serves a prerequisite for women in rural areas to fully participate in and benefit equally from socio economic achievements in rural areas.

Under the Rules of Business this Ministry's tasks include integrated rural development programmes policy, guidance, follow up action, coordination, foreign assistance and evaluation.

However, due to low level of development in rural areas, practical measures have been taken by relevant agencies to ensure the effectiveness of this policy.

A MINUGUA report was influential in Government civil society discussions aimed at producing a consensus based rural development policy, as called for in the peace accords.

Currently there was a plethora of sectoral policies that were not well coordinated, and the Government was working on a comprehensive rural development policy to harmonize them.

In support of this programme, the Ministry of Agriculture had created a fund that focused on training rural women on ways to access the available policy tools.

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In 2004, the Brazilian Government, through the Ministry for Agrarian Development, formulated a public policy named Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), implemented through a program and the formulation and implementation of preferential conditions to facilitate the access of rural workingwomen to agricultural policies.

The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the Twenty First Century (REN21) estimates that there are tens of millions of rural households served by renewable energy around the globe.

28), which stated that a rural development policy with emphasis on women was not yet in place, asked why that was the case, bearing in mind that rural women were major contributors to the physical welfare of their families and to the economic life of the country.

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In November, the apparent policy of targeted killings of civilians attributed to FNL elements resulted in the killing of at least 17 civilians in Bujumbura rural and Bubanza provinces.

There were also calls for microfinance and rural development schemes to empower the poor, as well as for policy measures to improve access to education, water and health services.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

By its resolution 58 146 of 22 December 2003 on the improvement of the situation of women in rural areas, the General Assembly requested the Secretary General to report on different aspects of the empowerment of rural women, including the impact of macroeconomic policy frameworks on their situation.

In the 1980s China introduced a one child policy that restricts many couples from having more than one child with several exceptions for rural couples, people without siblings, and others.

To help rural women pursue individual and collective initiatives on a more ambitious scale, the government has revised its agricultural development policy in light of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

More public funds will be available for rural education and rural health care.

According to specialists, this indicates that most rural to rural migrants are women.

Both rural men and women are equal beneficiaries of the rural electrification programme.

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Rural Reconstruction Nepal

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

The Bank s policy work has re affirmed the notion that rural producer organizations are fundamental building blocks of agricultural development. And it has helped governments to supervise and regulate cooperative financial institutions.

Migration increases remittances to rural areas and strengthens market linkages between rural and urban areas.