The AFC, with its project development subsidiary, Africa Infrastructure, and Chinese equity and technical partners, WEMPCO, is launching a power generation initiative in Bissau.

Beyond the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative the development financing conundrum

Foreign direct investment (FDI), it was noted, is a particularly beneficial source of financing.

The programme management cycle initiative will also include the development of a proper monitoring, reporting and evaluation function within the Agency.

Over 140 initiatives are funded under the programme with an emphasis on breaking cycles of offending as early as possible.

These documents place particular emphasis on realising Pakistan's commitments under the Education for All initiative and the Millennium Development Goals.

There have also been public private initiatives to generate new and additional sources of financing for smaller firms.

This meeting on Financing for Development, which follows on from the previous meeting, is, therefore, of special importance.

In Québec, school financing is linked to the status of the school as a public or private educational institution.

In the absence of any initiative by UNITAR to establish a new funding mechanism that allows resources to be secured, the Board notes that funding sources for the General Fund remain fragile and highly dependent on the level of activity of the Institute and the interest of donors in its projects.

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

Special meetings may be convened on the initiative of one or more member States or the Director of the Executive Committee.

(d) The Marrakesh Action Plan for Statistics is a particularly important initiative that deserves the full support of the international statistical community.

It also puts significant emphasis on the development of solutions on the basis of international and inter agency cooperation within the framework of a broader marine litter initiative.

The fact that in many developing countries a large part of landed property is not formally registered thus creates an obstacle to financing business initiative.

A special article will also be added to the Act on counter terrorism to cover liability of legal persons for the financing of terrorist activity.

Belarus intends to establish a special State entity responsible for detecting suspicious transactions and preventing the financing of terrorism.

Likewise, the Bush administration opposed the OECD initiative to restrict bank secrecy until it realized that secret bank accounts help finance terrorists.

For the fiscal year 2004 2005, a total of 3 million will be provided to Alberta's seven municipalities under the Provincial Homeless Initiative Funding.

Specifically with respect to the image of women in the media, the most important initiative will begin in 2005 with the discussion on the classification criteria for television content.

Among fiscal measures, the reduction of taxes and the granting of tax breaks in selected areas such as venture capital financing were of particular importance.

They seized computers and files, disabling the animal rights movement as it was on the eve of launching a new initiative to enshrine the protection of animals in the Austrian constitution.

Multilateral financial institutions must maintain their central function in the international development architecture, and in particular in financing infrastructure investment.

5 Funding for training courses relating to the Kyoto Protocol will come from specific contributions by Parties for this purpose and will be kept separate from contributions provided for training under the Convention.

(c) Supporting the growth of Special Purpose Grants programmes, which are an important source of financing for the General Fund through programme support costs.

And based on these experiences as well as on special needs of groups of countries such as SIDS and LDCs, further guidance could be provided to the GEF on funding technologies for adaptation.

Some 62 projects costing approximately 630,000 have been approved for funding, mainly in the areas of rehabilitation of education and health facilities and other public utilities.

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In Mauritania, it was possible to incorporate WFP's contribution into the fast track initiative.

In order to address the gap between reality and perception, the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Global Footprint Network (GFN), together with a number of institutional investors, investment managers, and information providers, have launched E RISC, or Environmental Risk in Sovereign Credit analysis.

International organizations continue to play an important role in countering the financing of terrorism, with FATF being especially influential.

Other proposals, such as the creation of an international finance facility and substantial additional resources to assist the developing world, especially Africa, during the transitional process must also be supported.

Oman's initiative to raise global awareness about road safety is based on its own experience and realization that the problem can only get worse if nothing is done about it.

The Committee notes the efforts made by the State party to address the demands in the sphere of education, health care and food in regions hosting a large population of refugees, in particular through the Zambia Initiative.

That is an initiative that needs the meaningful support of the international community, especially given that it takes short term responses into consideration, whilst preventing and mitigating future vulnerabilities.

That is a very important initiative.

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Mr. Michel (European Community) (spoke in French) I am especially pleased to address the General Assembly today on the critical questions of financing for development and the follow up to the Monterrey Consensus.

How social development is financed, especially in poorer countries, is central to achieving the objective of improving social conditions, as highlighted at Copenhagen.

But many are now reinforcing the work of their Financial Intelligence Units with special inter agency task forces set up specifically to counter the financing of terrorism.

Several longer term ideas for innovative sources of finance to complement ODA have been proposed, and an important initiative led by Brazil, Chile, France, Germany and Spain is currently exploring some of them.

Within a framework of solidarity and cooperation, through the PetroCaribe initiative, up to 40 per cent of the cost of oil for a group of 14 Caribbean countries will be financed over a period of 25 years at a maximum of 2 per cent interest.