They required access to markets to help them achieve development objectives.

Women's unequal access to many key resources impeded their contribution to economic development.

Measures that promote general economic growth in rural areas should benefit forest related enterprises, for example through access to credit, infrastructure development and improved access to markets.

To promote education and enhance access and use of ICT for development and to that end

37 Voices from the Field Women's Access to Land and other Natural Resources in Nepal, Women's Resource Access Programme, International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2001.

To that end, if the countries regarded as low middle income countries are to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, they will require increased support from the international community, including market access as well as access to financial sources such as the International Development Association and official development assistance.

The Inter American Development Bank developed a project on improving disability data and access to education.

Among other options, Africa needs market access and investments to generate resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Current activities explore capacity development for a human rights based approach in poverty reduction, democratic decentralization, the environment, access to justice and parliamentary development.

The price we have had to pay for this is to have access to aid and development finance denied to us at an early stage in our development.

In this respect, access to finance for new and expanding firms greatly influences firm development and growth.

Ensuring access to essential services is acknowledged as the principal means by which to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Access points should serve as development hubs for exchanging business and marketing information.

Development without access to energy won t happen. This crisis could help formulate a new approach increase access to reliable, affordable and renewable energy services for sustainable development, promote energy efficiency to make sure economic growth does not raise energy demand and environmental degradation, including climate change.

Their problems included displacement from their land, poor socio economic development and lack of access to decision making.

Development of standards and procedures relating to rules for access to and exit from buildings occupied by the Tax Administration

Goal eight of the Millennium Development Goals calls for global access to the benefits of new technologies, especially ICT.

Sustainable urban development (access to basic services such as water and sanitation, waste management, transport and energy urban planification).

The development of such technology should take account of the need to guarantee people more democratic access to knowledge and information.

Therefore, community access points are seen as cost effective tools in the realization of those socio economic development goals where information dissemination and access are important.

Thailand has achieved impressive gains in access to services essential for child survival and development, and in the process has come close to achieving virtually all the Millennium Development Goals.

Increased access and use of space technologies by developing countries in their efforts to promote economic, social and cultural development.

Moreover, the effective mobilization of women in development and their equal access to financial resources should be given adequate attention.

Continuing discrimination against women in access to education, health care, land, credits and productive means stifle reconstruction and development efforts.

The Government therefore launched the US 350 million Access to Justice Programme with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank.

Welcoming initiatives that aim to improve access to reliable, affordable, economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound energy services for sustainable development in order to contribute to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

46. Requests the United Nations development system to strengthen its role in facilitating access of developing countries to new and emerging technologies

There is also a need to ensure that enhancing access to safe drinking water and sanitation forms a part of development strategies.

International development partners could strengthen their assistance to developing countries in financial capacity building in order for developing countries to access financing.

In supporting SME development, the Government had put in place specific policies and initiatives, for example to facilitate SMEs' access to finance.

A major inhibiting factor over the years has been the lack of early access to substantial development aid, with its attendant adverse effect on long term reconstruction and development.

In that context, we asked for continued access to official development assistance (ODA), concessional financing arrangements, reduction of debt servicing and debt stock, access to private capital flows, the establishment of a normative and legal framework for foreign investment, improved access to markets and improved terms of trade for developing countries.

Furthermore, it is noted that, in future, access to official development assistance is likely to depend increasingly upon the identification of forest related programmes as national priorities within broader national development plans.

Issues to be addressed will include access, connectivity, policy and regulatory frameworks, e government, e commerce, and development of local content.

We recall the Millennium Development Goal (September, 2000) to halve the proportion of people unable to access affordable, safe drinking water by 2015.

Promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate, access to and the development, transfer and diffusion of technologies and corresponding know how to developing countries

They are also planning to undertake a joint interregional Development Account project on knowledge networks for disadvantaged communities through ICT access points.

6. Urges all Member States to encourage appropriate access to international markets for products of alternative development projects in order to support efforts aimed at eliminating the production of narcotic drugs and promoting sustainable development

The Committee will continue to promote the development of initiatives to facilitate access to United Nations system information by Member States and the general public.

Reference was also made to the need to improve market access for alternative development products, in order to reduce and alleviate poverty in rural areas.

ICTs have repeatedly been shown to support development activities by overcoming obstacles of geographic isolation, lack of access to information and challenges in communications.

In Burundi, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, South Africa, Tajikistan, Uruguay, and Viet Nam, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has facilitated rural women's access to credit and expanded market outreach for exporting their products through access to fair trade zones.

Improved access to education and health services, and opportunities for work outside the household, are critical conditions for women's full participation in development.

Special attention will be paid to assessing the synergy between cluster development, business linkages and access by SMEs in developing countries to global value chains.

We also stress the role of civil society and women in development and the need for poor people to have access to credit and investment.