It is the driving force behind efforts for development.

The individual is both the end and the means of all development efforts.

In short, human development, in its social and economic dimensions, must be at the centre of all development efforts.

The collapse of commodity prices had eroded development efforts.

Young people, who formed the majority of the population, were also actively involved in development.

Most of these projects concern the roles of women in national development efforts.

Conflict prevention is central to efforts to combat poverty and promote sustainable development.

The previous analysis highlights the multiple challenges facing Palestinian development efforts.

Unfortunately, the diversion of the reduced military resources to development efforts has not actually taken place.

The Government is now a partner with these other components in the development efforts of the Kingdom.

The Agenda marks the renewed commitment of the United Nations to support Africa apos s own development efforts.

In a world roiled by conflict, development efforts will always fall short.

The Economic and Social Council should also have an enhanced role in development efforts.

These steps, taken in the context of comprehensive humanitarian efforts, are all essential to set the stage for sustainable social, political and economic development.

2. Takes note of the report of the Secretary General on the follow up efforts to the International Conference on Financing for Development

The secret behind Sweden s successful development, and hence people s attitudes, is how the costs of change are distributed.

Efforts had been made to incorporate a rights based approach in development cooperation.

The debt burden continued to undermine development efforts and remained a major obstacle to the economic recovery and growth of developing countries.

81. Natural disasters can have an enormous and dramatic impact on development efforts.

More generally, efforts to include refugees and returnees in development programmes included UNHCR's Development Assistance for Refugees (DAR) initiative.

These efforts, however, require a comprehensive approach and joint action by all of the country's development partners.

The education of girls is a particularly important and efficacious component of successful human development efforts.

This causes severe hardships and jeopardizes development efforts, including the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

That amounted to a major economic jolt and was likely to undermine their efforts to achieve sustainable development.

We are encouraged by the steady progress made in various aspects of Timor Leste's development efforts.

These wars are responsible for the untold suffering and destruction which are hampering efforts at socio economic development and recovery in our continent.

The sheer multiplicity of actors and agents now threatens to overwhelm development efforts in some societies.

What is required of us is the full commitment of all the development partners to greater and special efforts.

Policies and measures needed to create an international environment that is strongly supportive of national development efforts are vital.

For Europe, this means that money that would otherwise go to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance can largely be saved and used in part for development.

They are linked because democracy is inherently attached to the question of governance, which has an impact on all aspects of development efforts.

Similarly, all the principles in the resolution must guide the efforts of the United Nations development system.

The World Development Report, published by the World Bank in collaboration with the World Health Organization, strongly emphasized the role of health in development efforts.

The United Nations Global Compact initiative provides the enabling context for the private sector to participate actively in the development effort.

The challenge for development efforts is to find methods that allow individuals and communities to solve their own problems the ability of a community to take on more complex social issues is a key indicator of progress.

Throughout that period Brazil's industrial development efforts had been hampered by shortcomings in education and scientific and technological innovation.

(d) Report of the Secretary General on follow up efforts to the International Conference on Financing for Development (A 57 319 E 2002 85).

This nullifies the development efforts made in the countries which are facing conflicts and also hampers NAP implementation.

In any efforts to increase coordination, the new orientation and focus on development should not be ignored.

quot Recognizing that there is a need to harmonize the efforts of different sources of funding for science and technology for development,

Both of these events are part of the region apos s endeavours to promote economic and social development in Central America.

This is to be achieved through sustained efforts in regard to economic development and through the strengthening of civil society and multilateral institutions.

And we must stand against protectionism. Without open trade, growth and development could break down entirely.

The conflict s end would also bolster development efforts in Colombia already a model of democracy and political and economic stability.

In the late 1970s, wells were drilled at Kufra and at Sabha as part of a major agricultural development effort.