The Ministry of the Family has promoted a number of family education initiatives.

The Ministry of Gender Equality had been expanded and restructured, renamed the Ministry of Gender Equality and the Family, and given responsibility for family policies such as child rearing and family health in addition to gender issues.

58,000 Lady Health Workers under the Ministry of Health and 13000 village based family planning workers under the Ministry of Population Welfare have been integrated to create a cadre of 71,000 family health workers under the National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Health Care.

Other countries opened new offices concerned with family policy issues within an existing ministry.

Acknowledgement can also take the form of a reorganization of a ministry or ministries to give greater emphasis to family issues, as in the case of Denmark, which established the new Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs.

Nevertheless, her Ministry was currently defining the terms of reference for a study of the family.

In coordination with Costa Rica's Family in Focus programme, the Ministry of the Family has also organized conferences and seminars on a variety of topics that help to promote values and improve family relationships and communication within the family.

The Ministry of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights and the Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity had shared responsibility for drafting the report currently before the Committee.

He also agreed with the need to support the work of the Ministry for Gender and Family Affairs.

WHO is also supporting the Ministry of Public Health in introducing measures to improve the family planning programme.

The Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity was the body chiefly responsible for affairs related to women.

For example, Peru established an office on the family and community within the Ministry of Women and Social Development.

The Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity was seeking solutions to the difficulties women experienced in employment.

WHO is currently developing a surveillance system, and in collaboration with Family Health International, training staff from the Ministry of Health.

She wished to know how the Observatory interacted with the Ministry for the Family and whether it was independent or subordinate to it.

In addition, a number of technical departments, committees and commissions within, inter alia, the Ministry of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration and the Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity were responsible for taking measures to protect and promote women's rights.

Mexico has developed the National System for the Integral Development of the Family the Ministry of Social Development of the Sultanate of Oman has created coordinating mechanisms for family affairs and Qatar has initiated the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, which addresses family issues as an inseparable part of the entire range of social issues.

According to a census by the Ministry of Social Affairs, there are 9 million family units constituting close to 37 million people living in poverty.

The Ministry of Justice is preparing to submit to the Government the amendment to Decree 68 2002 ND CP on the implementation of some articles of the Marriage and Family Law on marriage and family relations with foreign elements.

The Ministry of Health carries out, on a regular basis, a program for active health protection of mothers and children that comprises activities in the field of family planning (education, visiting nurse services, visiting counseling services for family planning, prescription of contraceptives, etc.).

The Division for Family and Women's Affairs of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour sought to improve women's awareness of their rights and to improve their situation.

Throughout 2003 2004, the Ministry of Children and Family Development provided a variety of services to assist high risk youth wanting to exit homelessness and or the street.

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Fertility rates had been reduced, family planning was practised and women had access to free birth control and counselling services in all institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Health.

He also mentioned that the mission had met with the Minister for Gender and Family Affairs and he urged the Prime Minister to support the work of her Ministry.

According to the estimations made by the Ministry, the total Republika Srpska population of 1,513,127, with an average family of 4 members, indicates that there are about 378,281 families.

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Moreover, regulations were adopted for the creation of a Family Support and Development Department within the Ministry of the Family. The task of that Department is to design programmes to reduce teenage pregnancy and to promote responsible parenthood and comprehensive, ethical and caring sex education.

From 2002 to 2003, the Ministry of Children and Family Development enhanced the types of supports available to provide families with the skills and assistance they need to help them care safely for their children, including the use of family group conferences to draw on the full resources of a family and to help them become healthier.

In addition, the Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity was cooperating with the Human Rights Board to promote and implement the provisions of the Convention through local mechanisms.

They had many channels for doing so, such as the Ministry for the Family, the Protection of Children and the Advancement of Women and a number of specific parliamentary committees.

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The Social Services Department in the Ministry of Social Affairs refers children to day care centers due to dysfunctional family situations these day care centers also care for working mothers' children.

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The Department of Social Welfare, under the Ministry of Women, Family and Social Development, had been restructured and given additional resources in 2005, and a dedicated unit for children had been established.

With regard to the institutional structure for dealing with women's rights, she said that the Ministry for Special Assignments for Children and Family Affairs had been established to coordinate and monitor the implementation of measures relating to the protection of children's rights, as well as youth and family issues.

ODEFPA was definitely a non governmental organization that received funding from various national and foreign partners, but at the same time it had to have a corresponding Ministry to which to convey its concerns, hence the link to the Ministry for the Family, the Protection of Children and the Advancement of Women.

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It is specifically for the purpose of expanding the rural population's access to family planning services that the Ministry of Health is employing the practice of training midwives who work in rural areas.

Led by the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs of Norway, its objective was to enhance the participation of women in business and agriculture and to strengthen their role in economic decision making.

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