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General comments on the IPR programme

It was stressed that the Invest in Peace programme should be extended to other such countries, with the assistance of UNCTAD's IPR programme.

Investment should be made in social sectors, with support from the international community.

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Wesleyan University has a Science in Society program.

The former include the decentralization of FDI promotion, the development of training programmes for staff involved in investment promotion, and initiatives to educate civil society about FDI and its development impact.

Periodic consultation with civil society representatives will contribute to a further enhancement of the Committee's programme of cooperation with civil society.

It is crucial for the international community to follow through with the implementation of the Programme of Action.

The private sector should be encouraged to make investments in social sectors and provide civil society organizations with support to carry out programmes.

Discussions on investment issues with representatives of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were held on two occasions in Brussels and Gaborone.

And what I've found is, rather than investing their money in food subsidies and other things, they invested in a school feeding program.

The international community now faces the task of translating the Programme of Action into tangible results.

Experts underscored the significance of information technology for improving governance in investment promotion and the need to provide support to developing countries through programmes such as the UNCTAD Investment Gateway.

Food Support programme for the poorest sections has been re vitalised.

Thailand stands ready to cooperate with the international community in the implementation phase of the Programme of Action.

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The Good Governance in Investment Promotion programme, the linkages programme, the Invest in Peace initiatives and the Blue Books were all designed to help countries in their efforts to implement the IPRs' recommendations.

With a need based humanitarian assistance programme, the international community would be able to help to overcome these serious problems in Croatia.

The international community can play an important role in supporting OFDI from developing countries.

The adoption of the Programme of Action had provided the international community with a framework, which Slovenia was determined to apply and promote.

The UNCTAD secretariat concluded the discussions by stressing that it would follow up on all the proposals made regarding the improvement of the IPR programme.

The secretariat informed the Commission that the IPR programme was undergoing an evaluation by a donor country, for the purpose of improving its impact and methodology.

In response, the Government, working together with Parliament, universities, the communications media and civil society organizations, was implementing a programme aimed at changing society's attitudes.

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That was why the international community needed to adopt specific and targeted measures to help improve the investment climate in this continent.

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Hence, the Brazil without Homophobia Program, in partnership with civil society, was launched in 2004.

In Guatemala, a civil society participation programme focuses on strengthening the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights.

The international community is obliged to pay close attention to monitoring progress on the implementation of the Programme of Action.

Indeed, China has done this by expanding its qualified domestic institutional investor program to allow more investment abroad.

In addition, the Local Governance Unit was rebranded' as UNCDF Local Development. Projecting a focus on local development allows UNCDF to better reflect its comprehensive support through the local governance approach to local development, by piloting activities with local governments, ensuring alignment of these activities with sectoral and other forms of deconcentration, and, to supportinging national decentralization policies and regulatory frameworks.

That investment, primarily from the private sector, has been fostered through a programme of State sponsored education, research and financial incentives.

The Government would be following up on the implementation of the recommendations of the IPR, which related to modernizing the FDI entry regime, strengthening Board of Investment (BOI) core functions and reforming the tax regime on investment.

UNEP also sponsors a civil society support programme, responding to the important need to strengthen the capacity of national and regional non governmental (NGO) networks.

What the international community needs to do is to come together on a program of action aimed at producing a result.

The second component of the Millennium Development Goals support programme involves working with civil society.

Mr. Thierno Kane, Civil Society Organization Division, Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships, UNDP

Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.