Implications for the long term development of Haiti

For too long, Africa has remained the backwater of development.

Long term development programmes must also be elaborated and implemented.

Medium and long term viability of development also needs to be ensured.

HIV AIDS is both an emergency and a long term development issue.

While ODA is an important source of financing for development, aid alone cannot ensure sustainable development over the long term.

The Ad Hoc Advisory Group is convinced that the long term development of Haiti requires a long term commitment by the international community.

The role of the international donor community in addressing Haiti's long term development

34. Emphasizes that funding of operational activities for development of the United Nations system should focus on long term development challenges based on national development strategies

The relative role of loans and grants in development assistance has long been debated.

However, in order to sustain long term economic growth, active development strategies are required.

15. Emphasizes also that funding of operational activities for development of the United Nations system should focus on long term development challenges based on national development strategies

Recognizing the clear relationship between emergency, rehabilitation and development and that, in order to ensure a smooth transition from relief to rehabilitation and development, emergency assistance must be provided in ways that will be supportive of recovery and long term development, and that emergency measures should be seen as a step towards long term development,

For the sake of long term interests, we have decided to sell the development department.

There is a clear need for both long term development programmes and quick impact projects.

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

The Millennium Development Goals are achievable, so long as we all make efforts and concessions.

To maximize their outcome, those initiatives should be coordinated with long term comprehensive development plans.

Sustainable development and the integration of climate change concerns into medium and long term planning

Unless these countries exploit the long term growth opportunities offered by industrial development, they will be unable to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

However, we must recognize that the question of development is far from being resolved, and international cooperation for development remains a long uphill journey.

The simple truth is that there is no hope for development without business and, in the long term, there is no business without development.

The role of MINUSTAH and the United Nations country team in addressing Haiti's long term development

This will go a long way in making the development policy formulation process more gender sensitive.

The international community should focus more on African long term stability and development and offer targeted assistance to support the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

Education at all levels should be the subject of priority attention in any long term development strategy.

The recent development of long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) presents a credible solution to the retreatment difficulties.

There is a need for seamless transition from humanitarian assistance to rehabilitation, reconstruction and long term development.

However, capacity development requirements became subsumed within broader development interventions, leading to inadequate attention to underlying capacity constraints and resulting in many development interventions being unsustainable in the medium to long term.

Seventeen regional technical assistance projects were also approved by the Asian Development Bank for US 7 million to promote long term development in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Such projects not only provided immediate humanitarian assistance, but also promoted medium term and long term industrial development.

By signing on to the Millennium Declaration, Armenia included the development goals in its long term strategy programmes.

This project aims at improving the radiological situation and creating conditions for long term, stable socio economic development.

That strategy encompasses a clear approach to achieving sustainable poverty reduction and long term economic and social development.

We have long recognized that good political, economic and corporate governance is an essential prerequisite of sustainable development.

To mobilize resources and support for both immediate assistance and the long term economic development of the Sudan

Official development assistance (ODA) was a catalyst for development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, because development was a long term process that required the mobilization of financial, human and technical resources beyond the means of many countries.

Of no less significance are the dimensions of sustainability of achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and of ensuring an enabling environment for medium and long term development.

At the same time, he emphasized the important link between relief and development and suggested that assistance should have inbuilt long term development support and strategies aimed at preventing such crises and promoting sustainable development.

The challenge, however, can be tackled in the long run only by acknowledging the interlinkage between security and development.

Similarly, loans for economic development should be extended at a concessionary interest rate with a long term payback schedule.

The arrest of Ante Gotovina on 7 December is indeed a welcome development, but also a long overdue one.

The long term commitment of the international community to the further development of Afghanistan is still of vital importance.

Local authorities must be empowered so that they are better able to provide basic services and long term development.

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.