Working with national policy frameworks

Croatia has had a national youth policy since 2000.

Bangladesh adopted a national youth policy in 2003.

Although the Government is making fiscal, institutional and policy measures to address both the short and long term challenges, they will need continued international assistance to implement these policies, if food aid is to be replaced by self sufficiency.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has no national health policy or national health care programme.

The Ministry of Population Welfare elaborated a National Population Policy Reproductive in July 2002.

In 1985, in conjunction with the United Nations International Youth Year, Malaysia formulated a national youth policy.

As part of our effort to fully attain this objective, my Government has adopted a national policy on gender development.

The government also adopted a National Policy for the Advancement of Women in 1996, based on the four strategic objectives described below.

Under a programme on education for children with special needs, a unit had been established to develop a national policy and facilitate its implementation.

The World Programme of Action for Youth provides a very good basis for any country to develop a national youth policy.

El Salvador responded by appointing a Secretary of Youth, whose department is working, with broad participation, on a national youth policy.

A national malaria policy had been approved and efforts to reduce child mortality linked to HIV AIDS prevention strategies.

Myanmar had enacted a national environmental policy upon which it was relying to attain sustainable development.

Reform is not just a plan it is already happening.

Therefore, any national or international policy for the effective eradication of poverty must be based on recognition of and respect for human rights.

National policy on mental health services was formulated with input from mental health service users and providers, patients' families and the community.

Brazil established a gender sensitive national women's health policy to guarantee women's human rights and reduce maternal mortality.

The Committee notes the State party's efforts to formulate a national strategic development plan for the period 2001 2004, which has not been finalized, and a draft national youth policy, but is concerned at the lack of a comprehensive national plan of action for the implementation of the Convention.

The Government aims to conduct a study on the situation of older persons in the short term and to elaborate a national policy on ageing in the longer term.

Israel established a national committee composed of representatives of the Government and organizations of persons with disabilities to formulate a joint policy before the sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee.

But seizing that opportunity requires moving past blame, learning from mistakes, and identifying how best to achieve a sensible, long term national energy policy.

By effectively enforcing property rights and implementing national policy, the Chinese Communist Party became the institutional mechanism that bridged the divide between the elites (the Party) and the masses.

In 2002, Thailand adopted a national policy and 10 year plan of action on children and youth to promote the role of the family in supporting and building the capacity of young persons.

In accordance with that vision, the Mexican Youth Institute was created as a governmental body charged with designing and implementing a national policy for the full integration of youth in the country's development.

The main objective of the Coordinating Agency is to build a national policy on rural education that addresses the specific characteristics of the different communities that comprise the rural environment in the country.

A revised national youth policy, which was developed on the basis of the 10 priority areas identified in the World Programme of Action for Youth, is under active consideration.

The main action point to emerge from the conference was the need to create a structure or mechanism to further develop and implement national gender policy.

She welcomed the fact that Benin had ratified a number of ILO Conventions, but noted that because of the difficult economic situation in the country and the consequent lack of female bargaining power, women had been entering the informal sector.

The estimated number of countries with a national policy on ECD has risen to 34 in 2004 from 17 in 2002.

Some of our countries have instituted a national policy for youth so that the young people may participate in shaping the societies in which they live while seeking to improve themselves and realize their full potential.

The memorandum should be seen as an initial step towards defining a position on the gender issue, raising awareness and putting into place an integrated national gender policy.

Secondly, the Commission concluded that the Government of the Sudan had not pursued a policy of genocide in other words, it did not find a demonstrated, specific intention, expressed as Government policy, to exterminate, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group protected under the definition of genocide.

The Government's fundamental objective was to achieve greater equity and respect for cultural and linguistic differences by implementing a national policy that was participatory, intercultural, and respectful of diversity.

It facilitates implementation of a national policy to integrate older persons in the formal and informal labour market, encourages life long education and promotes a model of the health of older persons among health care personnel.

Create a partnership between political parties join and the federal government to design a national security policy, consolidate law enforcement institutions, and impose authority throughout the national territory against all illegal armed groups

Policy harmonization and political will can come together through the adoption of a multisectoral State family policy, plan of action or programme in which implementation is spearheaded by a national coordinating mechanism.

Articulate a coherent national policy using international instruments in favor of the dignity of women and girls that explicitly denounces prostitution as a violation of the human rights of women and rejects its legalization.

Hence, every national youth policy should include measurable goals on how to improve the situation for all young women and young men, with special attention to marginalized youth, in order to secure our full participation in society.

This is the first national youth policy that has been established in Guatemala. We are proud to have developed it with broad participation by representatives of my country's diverse ethnic and linguistic groups and with the assistance of an interagency coordination effort.

We believe that unemployment will continue so long as the political crisis is not resolved and so long as there is not greater involvement on the part of young people in the context of a national youth policy that takes account of the Millennium Development Goals and of the actual needs of youth.

This year, we approved a national environmental policy focused on the conservation and appropriate usage of our natural and cultural heritage so as to guarantee the sustainability of development, the fair distribution of profits, environmental justice and the quality of life of present and future generations.

To further support actions to give recognition to people with disabilities, Government, with the assistance of DPA, developed the National Disability Policy which was approved by the Council of Ministers in April 2004.

She was perplexed by an apparent contradiction in the report, which stated that there was no comprehensive national policy on women but yet provided details of the National Policy for the Advancement of Gambian Women.

Moreover, some harmful practices such as widowhood rights and female genital mutilation had been criminalized under the criminal code, while a parliamentary committee on gender had been established and a national gender policy developed.