India s social sector has also been transformed.

Additional resources will be allocated for social sector programmes and infrastructure development.

The government has established the National Social Security Insurance Fund to provide social assistance for employees in the private sector and elsewhere.

There is no discrimination against women in the public sector in terms of social security and the right to paid leave.

This integration of social sector interventions with income generation is expected to enhance the impact of developmental initiatives.

The portion that falls short needs to be redirected to higher return investments in either the public or private sector, to household income, or to essential public services and social insurance.

By 2002, about 4.4m people had bought social insurance, of which 3.8 m were from the State sector and accounted for 86.4 of the total buyers.

In addition, grant aid in the social sector is preferable to loans, as the latter would drive the nation into heavy debt.

There is an attempt to extend the protection under the Social Insurance Act to also cover home workers and other workers in the informal sector.

However, the very fact that half of women in this section of the private sector is in ownership positions presents a great progress in relation to the social sector.

In the area of employment, sector objectives are centered in the promotion of self employment through infrastructure rehabilitation, special in rural areas, and professional training and social security.

Furthermore, the Committee encourages the State party to continue its efforts to reduce its external debt and to ensure that the social sector benefits from such reduction.

As the scope of the private sector expands, legal structures and policies that support competition, entry and exit, market openness, intellectual property, and social safety nets will also be needed.

b) Strengthen the role of public sector in ensuring and providing comprehensive health services to women as well as education and social security services to enable their full integration into economic activities

20.2 Plans projects to bring home workers and other workers in the informal sector under the Social Insurance Act.

The Social Security Act of 1990 is currently being amended to support the pattern, conditions, criteria and process of implementation of the above procedure. It is expected that, if this procedure is approved by the Cabinet, the current social security system may be extended to cover the informal sector by 2006.

India has also commissioned 100 small development projects (mainly quick gestation, small scale social sector projects), and pledged further funds for education, health, power, and telecommunications.

Earmarking of taxes caused current expenditures (especially on social security benefits) to increase along with revenues, reducing the scope for a higher public sector contribution to domestic savings.

Benefits and a family friendly environment attracted many women to the public sector, but their large presence in that sector was also due to gender segregation or stereotyping for example, women were heavily concentrated in certain sectors, such as health care, education and social work.

In 2004 his Government had increased spending in the social sector and strengthened basic services for the poor with a view to meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

(c) Train law enforcement officials, social workers and prosecutors on how to receive, monitor, investigate and prosecute complaints in a child sensitive manner that respects the privacy of the victim

In addition, meeting the health needs of poor and otherwise marginalized people may require that public sector and social marketing programmes channel free and subsidized services to those in greatest need.

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

(f) Convening workshops for capacity building in public private partnership development and management of public private partnership programmes

The Nicaraguan Social Security Institute, which provides maternity, medical, disability, old age and survivors' benefits, has helped to improve the living conditions of the economically active population (EAP) employed in the formal sector of the economy.

The Committee urgently recommends that the State party meet as soon as possible its commitment made in 1997 and spend 40 per cent of all its revenues on the social sector.

On March 23, 2005, the Thai Government declared its policies to the Parliament, which includes the extension of social security to cover informal and agricultural sectors to improve the quality of life of labourers.

On the basis of political and operational priorities, UNMIS has established a full time military observer presence in Juba (Sector I), Wau (Sector II), Malakal (Sector III), Kadugli (Sector IV), Ed Damazin (Sector V), Abyei (Sector VI) and Kassala (redeployment coordination headquarters).

(e) Provision of technical support for the development of national management action plans and public private partnership preparedness strategies and management of public private partnership programmes

The knowledge and skills required for developing and implementing public private partnership projects are often lacking in the public sector, and the private sector is unaware of the potential of the public private partnership relationship.

Other challenges included eliminating the asymmetries of globalization, creating new financial resources through increased official development assistance, resolving armed conflicts and increasing investments in the social sector.

This situation also has an impact on the rights to health, social security and housing, because the general health care system, the pension system and conditions of access to bank credit all create barriers for families in the informal sector of the economy.

The right to social security was reinforced by the enactment of the Act to combat poverty and social exclusion.

One means of developing the knowledge and skills needed for developing the public private partnership modality has been the creation of dedicated public private partnership programmes.

(b) Organization of an interregional meeting and regional meetings among officials, public private partnership alliance members, existing networks and national institutions and public private partnership facilitators

Only education remains as a future investment sector, given its impact on productivity, but the rest of the much needed social sector interventions have been abandoned in favor of investment in infrastructure, the environment, regional integration, and finance.

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Sector VI the Abyei area the sector headquarters would be located in Abyei