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.

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

Re establishment with mangrove and other suitable species can offer significant benefits, but needs to form part of a realistic national forest plan that is developed within an integrated framework for management of coastal areas.

Specific criterion (ii) The extent to which countries have developed and started to implement national forest programmes or equivalent processes

Implementation of national forest programmes. The proposals for action have effectively shaped the national forest programmes and their equivalents in many countries, and these national forest programmes have become national institutional frameworks for achieving sustainable forest management.

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.

All of these processes occur within the context of national laws that set the limits within which any decentralised or devolved forest management occurs (Sayer et al.

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.

A large number of countries have national forest programmes or equivalent processes that take account of relevant IPF IFF proposals.

Sustainable forest management

The Executive Secretary stressed that any policy on sustainable forest management must aim at preserving existing forests and ensure that reforestation and afforestation policies were addressed and promoted.

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.

At the national level, important developments have included the formulation and implementation of national forest programmes and reforms in national legislation dealing with forests, land use and natural resources, as well as decentralization and the devolution of forest management to communities.

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.

Financing sustainable forest management

Some participants referred to the leading role for the FAO in this respect need for establishing an effective financial mechanism for the implementation of sustainable forest management promote a study of the financial consequences of the different modalities.

Many of the Convention's articles apply to forest ecosystems, although it makes no specific reference to forests.

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Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management

Economic, social and cultural aspects of forests

International trade and sustainable forest management