Destitute groups of the population include the elderly, pensioners by and large, whose pensions cannot satisfy basic living needs.

Consequently, 32 per cent and 20 per cent of Gaza and West Bank households, respectively, are living in extreme poverty, unable to meet their basic needs.

The National Development Program (Propenas 2000 2004) advocated two strategies to eradicate poverty, namely (a) satisfaction of the basic needs of the poor and protection of families and community groups living in poverty and, (b) assistance to community groups living in structural poverty.

Without these none of the four basic needs can be sustained.

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

We urgently need to improve basic services and the everyday standard of living.

If anything, those resources should be increased in order to fulfil basic humanitarian needs.

Women's advancement could only be achieved if women's health needs at basic levels were addressed.

Accelerating development and meeting people's basic needs would go a long way to improving security.

Iraqis expect tangible political and economic progress, particularly in terms of living conditions, jobs and basic services.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

Social need is considered the state in which a citizen or family needs aid to overcome social difficulties and meet their living needs.

Through the Emergency Shelter Program, homeless persons receive shelter, food and other services to meet basic needs.

Table 1 Poverty levels, calculated using the unmet basic needs (UBN) method, 1998 2001 (Percentages of the population)

There is a link between purely military action and economic action aimed at meeting the people's basic needs.

Palestinian children continued to be denied an adequate standard of living, basic health care and even access to food and education.

Studies show that once the basic needs of shelter and food are met, additional wealth adds very little to happiness.

Even among those employed, 45 per cent do not earn enough to provide for the basic needs of their families.

The program provides for a person's basic needs while encouraging and supporting them in their efforts to become self sufficient.

That is the centrepiece of peacebuilding building peace by building good governance, meeting basic human needs and fostering social harmony.

This violence manifests itself in many different forms women's most basic rights are continually violated their integration into labor market is hindered and their access to health, education, basic sanitation, living accommodations services, etc. is restricted.

Part of Bhutan s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation. This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan s relatively low income level.

However, even if most remittances fund consumption, they may still make a valuable contribution towards satisfying basic needs and relieving poverty.

Therefore, desertification ranks among the greatest environmental challenges today and is a major impediment to meeting basic human needs in drylands.

The identification of best practises and basic needs is one of the main outcomes of the first phase of the Programme.

She wondered, in particular, about the basic livelihood of women, including how much food was produced, how much international assistance was required to meet food needs, and whether such needs were being met.

Development of innovative, non traditional programmes and activities aimed at making services available to disadvantaged and marginalized social groups and helping the members of such groups to develop their capacities with a view to enabling them to improve their own situations and living conditions and meet their own basic needs

The initiative further aimed to reduce poverty through community reconstruction, increase food production, fight environmental degradation and improve basic social services and living standards.

The needs of children and youth, particularly with regard to their living environment, have to be taken fully into account.

1.140 To alleviate poverty among the most vulnerable within the Palestine refugee community by linking short term relief to longer term development needs, through a needs based approach which addresses actual needs while emphasizing equality of opportunity and the right to basic human development.

The recommendations address only one basic dimension of the issue, without referring to the needs and problems of third States in implementing sanctions.

In particular, they will the address the ad hoc basic needs of developing countries that are not covered through donor funded technical assistance.

After a year of respite, economic contraction continued in 2004, with dire consequences for poverty, production capacity and the Palestinian people's basic needs.

A young person whose basic needs for food, clothing and shelter are not met cannot reasonably be expected to attend school or pursue education.

The wall would have severe consequences for about 49,500 Palestinians living in 38 villages and towns of the Seam Zone , and separating more than 500,000 Palestinians living within 1 km of it from their families, farmlands, jobs and other basic facilities.

People living with HIV (including women) have their sexual and reproductive health needs as well, whether they are treated for or not.

As indicated in the World Programme of Action for Youth, the development of basic education and skills training for rural youth needs to be strengthened.

The poor represented a body of human resources with great potential, provided their basic needs were met and they were mobilized to create economic growth.

1.31 In the West Bank, the communities affected by the wall fence have increasing needs as access to basic services is more and more restricted.

In rural areas, basic energy needs have to be met in order to ensure good management and control of other essential resources such as water.

In fact, there's no diet on Earth that meets basic nutritional needs that won't promote growth, and many will make you much healthier than ours does.

1.153 Families faced with sudden emergency or crisis situations will have been provided with one time selective cash assistance directed at meeting their basic humanitarian needs.

The cost of 270 per day for each cell includes the provision of detention guards, detainee accommodations, meals of detainees, laundry, other living expenses and basic medical care.

Affected households account for a significant portion of country level spending, reducing the level of resources available for other basic needs, such as food, education and housing.

Millions of people are living in hardship. Additional millions do not have guarantees of basic human rights and essentially all live in fear as a result of global terrorism.