Essential Services

Health systems ensuring universal access to essential services

This same survey also discloses the fact that the majority of family units do not have essential services, such as essential electricity, sanitary services and essential goods necessary for human development.

New roads bring other essential services to rural communities.

This practice often denies women access to essential health services.

All essential services in Egypt mandates the use of ID cards.

Distribution systems are essential for matching supply and demand in tourism services.

External resources allocated to essential health services, meanwhile, amounted to 11.6 per cent.

The state would be expected to take over essential public services from bankrupt local governments.

The humanitarian relief and essential services provided by UNRWA to the Palestinians remained vitally important.

Conflict destroys infrastructure and disrupts essential services, which has a negative impact on the livelihoods of women.

In their brutal attacks, civilian lives and livelihoods have been destroyed, as has infrastructure for essential services.

Improving education and access to reproductive health services was essential to redressing the situation of rural women.

General description The Programme provides a diverse range of essential services in support of all UNIDO activities, including procurement of goods and services, inventory and records management, and communications, travel, transportation and shipment services.

Ensuring access to essential services is acknowledged as the principal means by which to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Diverse and essential services include procurement of goods and services, communications, inventory and records management, travel and legal advice, all of which directly or indirectly support technical cooperation delivery.

Social sustainability evaluation criteria include such areas as employment (quality, including quality of employment and compliance with labour standards), equality and access to essential services such as energy services.

Given that endemic corruption in Bangladesh is perhaps the primary obstacle to providing essential services for poor people, it is essential that Hasina adopt a tough approach to corruption from the outset.

In contrast to the state, cities have even cut back essential services, including 20 reductions in police and fire personnel.

The ACVZ therefore deems it essential to draw up national implementation guidelines, based on best practices among regional police services.

The Government's essential health package incorporated preventive, educational and clinical services delivered through the community, health centres and district hospitals.

The majority of the planet's essential ecosystem services continued to be degraded and unsustainably managed, although the Millennium Project report had concluded that those services were essential to attaining the Millennium Development Goals and that their continued degradation significantly impaired the world's ability to achieve them by 2015.

Many speakers also raised concerns with regard to existing pressure on developing countries to liberalize the services sector, especially in respect of essential services such as water, energy, health and education.

Policies aimed at the prevention of delivery of essential services or assistance, including obstruction of aid delivery or access to food, water, sanitation or essential medical supplies in certain regions or targeting specific groups.

Benefits include premium free Alberta Health Care, dental care, eye care and glasses, prescriptions, essential diabetic supplies and emergency ambulance services.

General description Procurement provides essential services in support of all UNIDO technical cooperation programmes, and global forum and post crisis activities.

A few of the responses indicated the challenges encountered in outsourcing essential services, particularly the challenges of accountability and quality control.

The national Administration was still in charge of defining the essential level of services related to the nucleus of social rights.

Participants lamented that developing countries were pressed to liberalize the services sector, especially essential services such as water, energy, health and education, which reduced access to these sectors by poor people, particularly women.

Moreover, countries must further specify their human resources needs and develop innovative ways to provide essential services, particularly in the health sector.

Egypt did everything possible to provide refugees with essential services in the areas of education, health care and social welfare, but those services could be improved if the responsibility and the burden were shared.

Their increasing spending power, especially on non essential consumer goods and services, is being hailed as the great hope for the global economy.

Moreover, governments provide services, from defense and law enforcement to a humane safety net, that are essential to a successful economy and society.

At the same time, the people of the Territory lacked essential services and had to endure humiliating treatment by the Moroccan security forces.

Most service firms are traditional employers of women, and this includes government, which retains its essential function in providing services in developing countries.

The Committee is equally concerned about the broad definition of the concept of essential services , including professions such as teachers and postal workers.

It is also essential to change existing behaviours and practices, especially in countries with low quality services, through active community involvement and participation.

The setting up of joint public private sector arrangements, including tourist facilities and essential services to help promote tourism in the Territory.31

According to a study by the Ministry of Planning in 1997, however, entitled Consideration of the possibility of mobilizing additional resources for essential social services , an analysis of the distribution of public expenditure showed that the proportion allocated to social expenditure was of the order of 30 per cent and to essential health services around 15 per cent.

It also envisages the use of UNICEF procurement services, where appropriate, to promote the efficient and increased use of resources for essential commodities for children.

Trapped in poverty, many developing countries particularly African countries and least developed countries lack the essential resources for national infrastructure, social services and public management.

Priorities will include supporting delivery of essential services through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, and support to improve food security and rural livelihoods, health and education.

During the period 2006 2009, UNICEF will increasingly offer a mix of programme and procurement services to Governments as a unified basket of support that can have a positive impact on access by children and families to essential commodities and services.

The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.

Similarly, the Internet is essential to the developing sharing economy, which includes car sharing providers like Zipcar and I Go, and accommodation rental services like Airbnb and Zotel.