Only recently have boys in junior secondary schools begun learning basic sewing skills.

(c) Transfer of technology for low cost housing and basic infrastructure

The WTC group in Kabul has been training women to teach literacy and basic business skills.

(a) Life and basic skills, including vocational training, were designed and initiated with local and national partners.

Women entrepreneurs face inherent obstacles such as insufficient administrative skills, difficulties in financing and low self esteem.

The family s basic diet is low in the essential micronutrients that children need to thrive.

Organizational skills the ability to attract and inspire an effective inner circle of followers can compensate for rhetorical deficiencies, just as effective public rhetoric can partly compensate for low organizational skills.

Another element of the move towards consolidation in promoting quality in basic education is the increased focus on life skills education.

difficulties in the area of finances, housing or legal issues, residence status, low level of education and lack of professional skills.

And yet we still lack the basic skills of reflecting on such information, of sifting through the dirt to find the worthy nuggets.

While Viet Nam's per capita gross domestic product remains low, we are sparing no effort to provide basic education.

As indicated in the World Programme of Action for Youth, the development of basic education and skills training for rural youth needs to be strengthened.

Pull factors relate to location specific advantages of the host countries such as market potential, low cost labour, incentives, investment opportunities, technology and skills.

And research assessing a country s human capital now focuses on the quantity and quality of basic skills, qualified graduate manpower, and expertise in research and development.

This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan s relatively low income level.

The socially deprived may experience a deprivation of basic capabilities due to a lack of freedom, rather than merely low income.

According to one view, Eastern Europe was uniquely positioned to benefit from multinational companies its workforce was well educated, especially in engineering and sciences, and was thus able to avoid the classic low skills, low wage trap.

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

The children forgot or never learned their own languages and customs, or their linguistic skills in their own languages stayed at a very low level.

Public private partnerships can be used to improve the delivery of basic services, such as energy and water, facilitate access to larger financing opportunities and enhance skills.

Female migrants have benefited from activities, such as health awareness (HIV AIDS), legal and social rights protection, life and basic skills, vocational training and techniques for job seeking

In 2002 2004 the Look World project was implemented, in the course of which 102 697 persons (10 of the adult population of Estonia) acquired basic computer skills.

During the crisis, private companies and enterprises laid off thousands of workers, especially those with low wages, low skills and low education levels. In general, women mostly fell under these categories. Their plight led to an increasing number of them seeking work abroad and usually end up working as household helpers.

Governments with meager tax revenues can't provide basic public goods. Worse yet, low tax revenues in poor countries often result from defects in tax collection systems (rather than low tax rates) that also promote unproductive enterprise.

During the bubble years, the situation was exactly the opposite most of the workers released by a rapidly shrinking manufacturing sector could be employed easily in construction and social services, which require only low skills (likewise, real estate services demand only rather general skills).

As people are often sized up initially from their basic language skills, these studies suggest that people speaking to autistic individuals are more likely to overestimate what their audience comprehends.

Basic training and preparation for working life, in co operation with local authorities Developing skills in the context of the personal interests of the trainees, such as athletics, music, theatre etc.

The MDGs have proved instrumental in galvanizing political will and focusing financial resources on a limited set of basic needs in low and middle income countries.

The above data essentially contradict the predominant perception according to which, one of the basic reasons for violent behaviour is the low educational level of perpetrators.

Indeed, foreign investors stay away from economies without basic infrastructure those with costly and unreliable roads, ports, communication systems and electricity and low effective consumer demand.

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Persistent challenges include untrained staff, low salaries, lack of basic equipment, training and reference materials, gender inequity and lack of harmonization among secular, customary and Islamic laws.

The low priority given to energy is due to the major basic investments required and the unsuitability at times of new techniques in relation to local customs.

5. Stresses the importance of increasing access to and control by the poor over resources, including land, skills, knowledge, capital and social connections, and of improving access for all to basic social services

Learning strategies were designed for the launch of major training programmes in 2005 to strengthen (i) WFP and partner basic skills in ENA and (ii) the capacities of WFP's advanced assessors in ENA.

Moreover, the ADB s support includes skills development, particularly to foster skills required by the infrastructure sectors, and strengthening skills design and delivery systems.

An educated mother, well equipped with the knowledge of health skills, agricultural skills, accounting skills and many other skills is a woman that will direct the health of herself, her family and the nation.

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It asserts life skills are a synthesis many skills are used simultaneously in practice.

They may lack basic grammar and spelling skills (for example, having difficulties with the letters p, q, b, and d), and often will write the wrong word when trying to formulate their thoughts on paper.