Some have striven to integrate the Agenda 21 into their national economic and social development plan (e.g. Thailand).

His Government's position was that women were an important resource that could be mobilized to achieve the national development agenda.

Other Parties explicitly reported that they have developed their sustainable development strategy and action plan based on their national Agenda 21 (e.g. Brazil, Malaysia, Swaziland) and national priorities in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals.

Achieving the MDGs, therefore, requires a clear political commitment to make science and technology top priorities in the national development agenda.

As a trusted and impartial development partner the United Nations played an indispensable role in forging consensus among national stakeholders and other development actors for the advancement of the global development agenda.

The UNDP Administrator, describing the link between the Millennium Development Goal and national poverty reduction strategies, said that the Goals help set and frame the global development agenda.

Most non Annex I Parties developed their national action plans on Agenda 21 in the 1990s following the adoption of Agenda 21 that called all governments to adopt a national strategy for sustainable development based on the implementation of decisions taken at UNCED.

The road map defines two universal and essential facets of the national implementation process, particularly in developing countries and countries with economies in transition national capacity building and mainstreaming of ageing into the national development agenda.

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An important cross cutting dimension of the United Nations development agenda is the promotion of good governance at the global and national levels.

During 2002 2004, implementation of FES showed progress in promoting the interests of children as part of the local and national development agenda.

Health and medical care was a priority area on the national development agenda, and the average female life expectancy had continued to improve.

In 2004, UNIFEM had concentrated on helping countries move forward on that pathway, bringing women's human rights into the development agenda and national strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

4. Invites the international community to provide financial and technical assistance to support the Government's national reconstruction and development agenda, including the poverty reduction strategy process and the Millennium Development Goals

Agenda 21, the Millennium Development Goals and the Plan of Implementation adopted at the WSSD form the blueprint of their actions and measurable targets for sustainable development at the national level.

Africa New Agenda for Development

Financing the Next Development Agenda

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The United Nations development agenda

Agenda item 52 Sustainable development

Convinced that empowering youth through education will enable them to have equal access to participation in the national development agenda, Malawi implemented universal free primary education under the national Education for All programme.

This guidance may address issues relating to incorporating adaptation concerns in the project's cost benefit analysis and mainstreaming adaptation projects in the national development agenda.

National development priorities All reporting Parties identified their national development priorities.

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Agenda item 52 Sustainable development (continued)

Emphasizes that development should be at the centre of the international economic agenda and that coherence between national development strategies, and international obligation and commitments are imperative for an enabling environment for development and an inclusive and equitable globalization

2. Emphasizes that development should be at the centre of the international economic agenda and that coherence between national development strategies and international obligations and commitments is imperative for an enabling environment for development and an inclusive and equitable globalization

Mr. Ndjonkou (International Labour Organization (ILO)) said that the 2005 World Summit had put decent work and employment firmly back on the national and global development agenda.

Agenda item 90 Operational activities for development

A number of Parties mentioned that the preparation and publication of their national Agenda 21 was one of the first initiatives relating to sustainable development and climate change.

Emphasizes that development should be at the centre of the international economic agenda and that coherence between national development strategies, on the one hand, and international obligations and commitments, on the other, will contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for development

Those efforts should be supported by more resources and better development opportunities, including allocation by donor countries of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for development assistance innovative financing mechanisms increased debt relief where necessary and support for the Doha Development Agenda.

This emphasis on the demographic aspects of sustainable development was also underlined by China in its sustainable development strategy, China Agenda 21 the White Paper on China's Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century, as highlighted by its initial national communication.

National development plan.

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Agenda item 90 Operational activities for development (continued)

Sustainable development implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Allow me to briefly expatiate on the national development initiatives that the Government of Ghana has been pursuing in response to the global development agenda over the years, and on the modest but positive results yielded so far.

This Program is part of the ILO Decent Work National Agenda.

Emphasis was placed on ways to promote housing finance and urban development more squarely in the national development agenda, including in the Country Assistance Strategy used by the World Bank to establish investment programming and poverty reduction strategy papers.

While the majority of countries are focusing their national plans on the achievement of the millennial goals, others are already able to pursue a more ambitious Millennium Development Goal plus agenda.

Encourages UNFPA to further mainstream the ICPD agenda into country led frameworks such as sector wide approaches, poverty reduction strategy papers, health sector reforms and other national development plans and policies

These procedures will reduce transaction costs as well as provide a basis on which to support the development of national capacities in financial management, a key element of the Paris agenda.

National Health Policy 2001, The way forward, Agenda for Health Sector Reform.