Families are main agents of sustainable development.

Growth is the main engine that drives development.

Development remains the main political and moral issue of our time.

Main elements of gender policy in the context of Dutch development cooperation

The main benefits of that development are improved quality assurance and data integration.

(c) A global partnership established on alternative development with the main development agents in countries affected by illicit crop cultivation

Official development assistance (ODA) remains the main source of external finance for landlocked developing countries.

The main constraint to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the lack of a congenial global trading system for agricultural products, which are among our main exports.

(a) Inequality, which is the main obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the region.

Governments will continue to be the main investors in the development of large scale water infrastructure.

This important development is covered in more detail in the main body of the report below.

Development was and would continue to be one of the main responsibilities of the multilateral system.

Noting that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should therefore make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development,

Implementing the Monterrey Consensus, the main outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development, remains critical for furthering the global development agenda, including the Millennium Development Goals.

The Permanent Representative of Afghanistan rightly called that the main challenge to stability and development in Afghanistan.

Main steps of this conceptual framework are information development and awareness raising planning and design implementation and monitoring.

Developing countries' main challenge is how to strengthen domestic supply capacity and reconcile trade, development, social and equity considerations.

Furthermore, legislation has been adopted to implement our country's main development projects and other draft bills are being studied.

However, other ways of funding social development must be sought since ODA alone could not be the main source.

UNGEI was increasingly recognized as the main partnership framework for girls' education within EFA and the Millennium Development Goals.

Poverty eradication should remain the main pillar of operational activities for development, which could play an important role in the development process, especially by means of capacity building.

Many structural improvement programs have been financed at the European level, but agricultural production and land use are not among them. The development of an Agricultural Main Structure would compliment the European Ecological Main Structure.

The Space Shuttle Main Engine program aggressively pursued the development and implementation of safety and reliability improvements in FY 1994.

Mongolia fully supports the equal emphasis placed by the Secretary General on three main areas development, security and human rights.

(b) Serves as the main general economic and social development forum within the United Nations system for the ESCAP region

Thailand has always attached great importance to the work of UNCTAD as a main agency for trade and development policies.

In fact, the United States policy regarding Cuba constituted the main obstacle to the achievement of Cuba's social development goals.

Landlocked developing countries are in greater need of technical and financial assistance for their physical infrastructure development which remains one of the main bottlenecks for economic growth and development.

Note that States have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development, that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development

For many developing countries, such as Ghana, the main challenge to building a global partnership for development lies outside their control.

The lack of financial resources had been the main cause of the failure to achieve an adequate level of general development.

We in Africa recognized the need to assume primary responsibility for addressing our development challenges and took practical steps through the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa's Development as the main framework to pursue sustainable development.

A further decree of 2004 on social and economic development has focused on the development of the provinces, with one of the main goals being support for the non oil sector.

(b) It is important to emphasize that poverty reduction is becoming the main force driving the reforms of United Nations development assistance.

Among the main causes are climate change, environmental degradation, increasing levels of vulnerability, inappropriate development patterns and inadequate mitigation and preparedness systems.

The promotion of economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development was identified as a main priority for the region.

The main factors impeding the sustainable development of water resources are chronic scarcity, deteriorating quality and unsustainable water utilization, especially in agriculture.

Our main tasks in September need to be the review of the progress of the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 and the creation of a development oriented trading and financial system.

The main agenda item of the special session would be Contribution of the Trade and Development Board to the follow up to the relevant United Nations development conferences, including the Millennium Summit .

Separatism is not only the main threat to our country's peace and security it is also the main obstacle to the further consolidation of the independence and the statehood of the Republic of Moldova and a hindrance to its economic development.

These organizations have three main functions (a) data collection and dissemination (b) the development of methodological standards and (c) training and capacity building.

In countries with low child mortality rates, the main focus of UNICEF will be on improving child growth and development and preventing injuries.

Since infrastructural development is one of the main priority areas of NEPAD, African Governments should strictly align budgetary expenditures with the set objectives.

The third panelist addressed the main obstacles to SME development in sub Saharan Africa from the point of view of the private sector.

To assist the Commission in its consideration of the main thematic issue of electronic commerce strategies for development, the secretariat has prepared a background paper E commerce strategies for development Selected trade and development aspects of information and communication technologies .