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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Meeting the special needs of Africa

Acknowledging that enhancing women's opportunities, potential and activities requires a dual focus, namely, programmes aimed at meeting the basic needs and the specific needs of women for capacity building, organizational development and empowerment, together with gender mainstreaming in all programme formulation and implementation activities,

However, meeting the basic needs and the social and economic aspirations of society has traditionally required a heavy dependence upon highly polluting energy and industrial technologies, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.

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

VII. Meeting the special needs of Africa

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

The Programme of Action recognizes that meeting the basic human needs of growing populations is dependent on a healthy environment and it provides guidance on how to address the human dimensions of pressures on the environment.

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

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

Meeting the protection needs of refugee women and refugee children

Recognizing that development can only be sustainable on a long term basis if development policies are responsive to people's needs and ensure people's participation both in their design and implementation, while stressing the fact that meeting the basic human needs essential for survival is a sine qua non condition for an effective democracy,

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

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

Please do not ever think that only after meeting your physiological needs and other needs can you be thinking about your spiritual needs or your enlightenment.

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.

The recruitment campaign indicates difficulty in meeting staffing needs through local recruitment.

Such interventions, in addition to meeting immediate needs, help prevent future displacement.

Assessments of existing needs could be accompanied by proposals for meeting them.

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

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

Recognizing that enhancing women's opportunities, potential and activities requires a dual focus, namely, programmes aimed at meeting the basic as well as the specific needs of women for capacity building, organizational development and empowerment, together with gender mainstreaming in all programme formulation and implementation activities,

These positions are on representative government, citizen rights, international relations, natural resources, environmental protection, pollution control, and social policy including equality of opportunity, fiscal policy, health care, meeting basic human needs, childcare, early intervention for children at risk, violence prevention, gun control and urban policy.

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.

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.

And we're only eight doublings away from it meeting 100 percent of our energy 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.

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.

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.