The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development has taken the lead in disaster response management.

But progress can be achieved only if countries themselves take the lead for their own development.

Such opportunities for dialogue between the various stakeholders in social development could lead to tangible outcomes.

UNAIDS Secretariat to take the lead in the development of a scorecard style accountability tool by December 2005.

Free, prior and informed consent should be viewed as a process that could possibly lead towards equitable solutions and evolutionary development which may lead, in their turn, to co management and decision making.

Within the United Nations system, the Economic and Social Council, with its capacity for coordination of operational activities for development, must take the lead on development issues.

We hope that both sides will lead well in development strategy and better realize win win, mutually beneficial cooperation.

Developing country Governments could not lead the way towards sustainable development without the substantial support of their civil societies.

Slowly ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

New retail plans proposed by different types of industries will lead new retail development into a state of diversified growth.

This year's High level Dialogue on Financing for Development is being held in the lead up to the September summit.

The debates of the Commission reaffirmed that adequate financial resources were a prerequisite for social development, although the provision of resources itself did not automatically lead to social development.

Young people's needs must be taken into account, and young people must be able to lead the development of their societies.

Such a dialogue should lead to the development of common goals and meaningful governance processes supported by countries honouring commitments made.

In other cases, UNDP has resolved to find alternative sites for interviews to be conducted for the Leadership Development (LEAD) programme.

It is envisaged that this project will lead to the development of a national Science and Technology Databank for the country.

Where this is not the case, those same forces are just as likely to lead to marginalization and or enclave type development.

We are convinced that political harmony, once restored, will lead all Haitians to mobilize for the development and prosperity of their country.

Lack of coordination among national research and development programmes can lead to unnecessary redundancies, missed opportunities for productive collaboration and the problem of critical research and development topics falling through the cracks .

The United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) continues to take the lead in coordinating system wide activities in sustainable development.

These include increased industrial development and other activities that could lead to higher levels of background air pollution and other health risk factors.

Taking the lead in gender mainstreaming, in 2003 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development designed and began to implement its strategy to mainstream gender in the field of agriculture and rural development .

Additionally, economic development patterns that encourage migration (domestic and international), discourage sustainability, and disadvantage local economies, lead to even greater incidences of women's exploitation.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has taken the lead in monitoring and evaluating sport and development programmes and in selecting impact indicators showing the benefits of sport and development programmes in the field.

Today, more than ever before, we need effective action that will reduce the inequalities of development and lead to greater investment by more developed nations.

In Turkey, the Technological Development Zones (TDZ) Law of 2000 promotes the establishment of science and technology parks under the guidance and lead of universities.

In that regard, UNESCO, as the lead agency of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, would have an important role to play.

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To focus exclusively on the so called security problems in Haiti, without considering the fact that only development and progress will lead to peace and stability in that suffering Caribbean nation, would be a short sighted and unrealistic view that would soon lead to failure.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been set as an ambitious pathway for eradicating poverty a pathway that should also lead to ensuring long term sustainable development, peace and security in all countries of the world.

The challenge for your successor is to now lead the General Assembly in the direction of implementation and development of what has been put in place.

I trust that God will give us the necessary wisdom and strength required to lead our countries along the path of liberty, peace, development and justice.

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The lessons we have learned from our own experience lead us to conclude that achieving the Millennium Development Goals poses specific challenges to countries emerging from conflict.

Because of its cross sectoral mandate and global platform, UNDP is the most suitable United Nations entity to lead the United Nations development system in this area.

Chemical exposures can also interfere with primary education by impairing children's physical growth and emotional development and, in the case of metals such as lead and mercury, can have serious and irreversible adverse effects on children's mental development.

In addition, the need for coherence of aid and trade policies was underlined in order to ensure that official development assistance, trade and debt relief, when taken together, would lead to a net result that was positive for development.

This work should be linked with actions on financing for development stemming from the Monterrey Summit so as to consolidate a coherent multilateral system that would lead to greater correspondence between national development strategies and the global economic process.

The 2005 summit was an important stage in exploring mutually acceptable formulas and in adopting goals whose implementation will lead us to the achievement of development and security.

Mr. Sundaram (Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development) stressed that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was the lead agency in responding to natural disasters.

So one meeting tends to lead to another meeting and tends to lead to another meeting.