Carry out government policy for poverty alleviation through community empowerment strategies.

Women's economic empowerment does not necessarily lead to enhanced decision making in households and local communities.

Communities where all citizens are empowered to participate in social, economic and political opportunities are instrumental in the eradication of poverty.

The participation of civil society, including people living in poverty, the empowerment of local communities, and a genuine feeling of ownership by the Government and local communities are essential for poverty eradication strategies.

The national vision on women empowerment has been the realization of gender equality and justice within the family, community and state.

A people's movement led to the passing of a Land Reform Act, which gave communities the right to acquire ownership of land, including woodlands.

A community empowerment project would be developed in countries hosting evacuees to provide social services, childcare and job placement schemes.

They give us our identity and a sense of community.

We have also supported a peacebuilding and women's empowerment programme, which seeks to promote community based trauma counselling initiatives, peacebuilding and reconciliation between communities.

Access to micro credit, especially in remote rural areas, is an effective tool in enhancing socio economic conditions and empowering poor communities and individuals.

The economic and social bases of the village will be strengthened and the village empowered through the implementation of social mobilization programmes

(b) Promoting the economic and social empowerment of women as well as their legal and human rights

Ever since first established, it has continued to run empowerment training courses for women, particularly in rural areas, with the aim of familiarizing them with their legal, social and health rights, instilling in them the principle of equality with men and empowering them to make decisions.

In addition, in 2001, the Government drafted the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction based on four pillars (i) employment creation (ii) community empowerment (iii) capacity building and (iv) social protection.

The fourth meeting of the Committee, which would be held in the Philippines in November 2005, would focus on economic and social empowerment of ASEAN women.

The State has granted these associations the right to audit and to examine the commercial position of the cooperatives to ensure that they have conducted their affairs properly.

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In 1945, the framers of the Charter did not give the Economic and Social Council enforcement powers.

C. Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women (gender and environment)

Welcoming the contribution by Member States, the international community and civil society to the global Campaign to End Fistula, bearing in mind that a people centred approach to social and economic development is fundamental to protecting and empowering individuals and communities,

They seek full citizenship, social justice and empowerment based on respect for international standards of human rights.

It was, for instance, introducing a strategy to empower women politically, economically and socially.

The exclusion of women from all levels of societal decision making is linked to their disempowerment.

C. Empowerment of women

Constitutional rights!

It is. By divine right.

This requires national, regional and international efforts devised within the context of health, human rights and women s empowerment.

In our view, it cannot be said that by including socio economic rights within the bill of rights, a task is conferred upon the courts so different from that ordinarily conferred upon them by a bill of rights that it results in a breach of separation of powers .

177. As a result of the adoption of Peru apos s 1993 Constitution, responsibility for defending the constitutional and fundamental rights of the individual and of the community, amongst others, was vested in the Office of the Ombudsman under the terms of chapter nine, section four, where it is specified that the Ombudsman is appointed and dismissed by Congress and that he is responsible for defending the constitutional and fundamental rights of the individual and of the community.

152. CSOs conducted various empowerment activities targeting women in small scale businesses.

Similar goals are established for the civil society for poverty reduction programme in sub Saharan Africa.

(e) Empowering and building the capacities of poor communities, women and families for combined delivery of multiple interventions at community level that support the continuum of care concept .

The consumer is empowered.

Participation and empowerment

Empowerment is positive.

By divine right, is that not so?

Many jurisdictions now provide allocution rights to victims at sentencing or parole hearings.

The role of the customary areas shall be enhanced, particularly by giving the area councils a role in the clarification and interpretation of the customary rules.

These community structures facilitate community representation in the assessment and selection of community empowerment projects.

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If devolution of power is to be meaningful, the power to enact laws on devolved subjects should be vested in the regional councils.

Accordingly, the regional list included in the proposals contains 46 subjects and legislative power in respect of these subjects have been vested in the regional councils.

21. In October 1997, the Subregional Development Centre for Eastern Africa organized a high level seminar on women s advancement and economic and social empowerment in the Eastern and Southern African subregion.

Recalling also the resolution of the General Assembly at its twenty fifth special session on the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium as well as the development goals set forth in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 8 September 2000,

As a first step, the United Nations should be given a standing authority to send a fact finding mission to the area where a conflict has broken out.