C. Alternative livelihoods and protecting the environment

We must follow up our promises with regard to alternative livelihoods.

Promoting alternative livelihoods is the key to moving away from a drugs based economy.

First, by the introduction of alternative livelihoods that have less of an impact on dryland resources.

We must take a multidimensional and coherent approach that promotes alternative livelihoods, law enforcement and information activities.

(c) Provision of alternative livelihoods and creation of the national development budget and the counter narcotic trust fund to provide financial support

(c) Provision of alternative livelihoods and creation of the national development budget and the counter narcotics trust fund to provide financial support

Alternative livelihoods had to be found to replace opium cultivation, while there had to be a reduction in the demand of consuming countries.

Yet another delegation noted that if small scale fisheries were unsustainable, there was a need to assist countries in finding alternative livelihoods for fishers.

Referring to the positive results of annual surveys, those representatives expressed their gratitude to UNODC and to donor countries for supporting opium poppy surveys, training national authorities in monitoring systems and promoting alternative development and the creation of alternative livelihoods.

They also make available reliable information upon which development strategies can be based in order to offer alternative sustainable livelihoods to farmers dependent on such illicit cultivation.

We would also like to emphasize the importance of providing alternative livelihoods to farmers in order to reduce the incentive for the cultivation and production of opium.

4. Urges all stakeholders to accelerate efforts to implement a combined strategy, comprising law enforcement, eradication, interdiction, demand reduction and awareness building, including alternative livelihoods conceived in a broader development context than currently understood, with a view to creating sustainable livelihoods, independent of illicit opium

13.6 In pursuing its objectives, UNODC will make every effort to integrate and mainstream the gender perspective, particularly in its projects on prevention, the provision of alternative livelihoods and human trafficking.

UNODC will continue also to develop programmes to improve national and subregional capacity in alternative livelihoods to reduce dependence on opium and to assist Governments in implementing national growth and poverty eradication strategies.

The aim is to break the vicious cycle of poverty through identification and propagation of alternative livelihoods and the sustainability of the opium poppy elimination programmes that have been successfully implemented in the region.

For sustainable livelihoods

Several representatives expressed support for the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan, UNODC and the international community aimed at the elimination of illicit opium poppy cultivation and the promotion of sustainable alternative livelihoods in Afghanistan.

Speakers emphasized the importance of work in the area of sustainable livelihoods, which provided support to the design and implementation of quality alternative development programmes and projects in all key regions where illicit drugs were produced.

In July 2004, the World Bank and UNODC signed a cooperation agreement on a set of thematic and regional topics, including the fight against money laundering and corruption, and promotion of alternative livelihoods and good governance.

Sustainable livelihoods. Sustainable development.

We also endorse the efforts made by the Government of Afghanistan and the international community to end poppy cultivation, to build relevant judicial and police capacity and to provide sustainable alternative livelihoods for those engaged in poppy cultivation.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has focused its work in the area of sustainable livelihoods on providing support to the design and implementation of quality alternative development programmes and projects in all key regions producing illicit drugs.

Improving livelihoods in an urbanizing world

Some commented that there was a need for an approach in which measures, including the controlled eradication of opium poppy fields and the creation of alternative livelihoods, as well as law enforcement and information activities, would be applied in the appropriate sequence.

It was acknowledged that there was a need for an approach in which measures, including the controlled eradication of opium poppy fields and the creation of alternative livelihoods, as well as law enforcement and information activities, would be applied in the right sequence.

C. Grass roots innovations and rural livelihoods

B. Protecting improving the livelihoods of primary producers

We must help to rebuild livelihoods and communities.

Livelihoods destroyed by the tsunami have not been restored.

Some representatives welcomed the increased involvement of UNODC in activities dealing with HIV AIDS, but noted that projected decreases in the areas of creating alternative livelihoods and drug abuse prevention and treatment, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, should be re examined when formulating the budget.

The Ministry developed a counter narcotics implementation plan in February 2005, comprising eight pillars (a) institution building, (b) information campaigns, (c) alternative sustainable livelihoods, (d) interdiction and law enforcement, (e) criminal justice, (f) eradication, (g) demand reduction and treatment of drug addicts, and (h) regional cooperation.

He's created a cooperative to help people diversify their livelihoods.

We are supporting governance, human rights and sustainable rural livelihoods.

The strategic plan (2004 2007) is to protect livelihoods in crisis situations and enhance resilience to shocks by creating assets, by disaster mitigation and by enabling more sustainable livelihoods.

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Furthermore, in March 2005, a memorandum of understanding was signed between UNODC and UNIDO, which has resulted in joint projects in the areas of trafficking and environmentally safe disposal of seized narcotics and chemicals, work to combat corruption as well as to further alternative livelihoods and other field based projects.

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