An initiative promoted by the United Nations Capital Development Fund and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat.

They form part of a growing trend towards corporate social responsibility and self regulation and include the Ethical Trading Initiative, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Global Compact initiated by the Secretary General of the United Nations.

So why is the Bush administration spending time and energy proposing radical changes to the Social Security System as its signature domestic policy initiative indeed, as virtually its only policy initiative? Everyone who worries about America s weak fiscal position puts Social Security s relatively small funding imbalance far down the list of priorities.

The initiative further aimed to reduce poverty through community reconstruction, increase food production, fight environmental degradation and improve basic social services and living standards.

The elimination of economic and social threats to durable peace and sustainable development in Africa is at the very heart of the NEPAD initiative.

Civil society and corporate sector, which would contribute to the initiative, ruled by principles of corporate responsibility and social, cultural, environmental and technical sustainability.

The free travel scheme operated by the Department of Social and Family Affairs had been extended to the rural transport initiative in July 2003.

of the Krakow Initiative Proliferation Security Initiative

The Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs continues work on the technical assistance initiative launched in 2003 to support Member States in implementing the Madrid Plan of Action.

In any case, advancement in relation to the social sector is significant and presents a consequence of a much bigger role of personal initiative and smaller institutional barriers for the advancement of women in the social hierarchy.

At the same time, in the social framework of the Arab development process, the Joint Arab Action initiative has begun to recover a measure of vitality.

Requests the Secretary General to adopt the appropriate measures to disseminate information about the Social Forum, invite the relevant individuals and organizations to the Social Forum and take all practical measures required for the success of this initiative.

Over the past four years, we have been striving for national revitalization and institutional overhaul based on transparency, freedom, the rule of law, social equality and individual initiative.

Welcoming the fact that the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative have enabled heavily indebted poor countries to increase their expenditures on health, education and other social services consistent with national priorities, development plans and internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

We commend the Secretary General for his initiative aimed at enabling young people to get a foothold in the labour market, thereby contributing to the reduction of social inequalities.

The World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen in March 1995, recommended that States should implement the 20 20 initiative, namely to earmark 20 per cent of budget expenditure and 20 per cent of external aid to financing essential social services.

31 May marks the second anniversary of Krakow Initiative Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Significant results in reaching children have been seen in such countries as Afghanistan, India and Pakistan from targeted social mobilization and communication in support of the global polio eradication initiative.

The Nova Scotia Diversity and Social Inclusion in Primary Health Care Initiative is a three year plan, started in 2003 and funded by Health Canada's Primary Health Care Transition Fund.

At the end of 2003 the first support group for women suffering violence was opened in Tallinn at the initiative of the non governmental organisation Centre for Estonian Social Programmes.

the Beijing Initiative.

National homelessness initiative

A significant initiative.

An international initiative.

Community initiative Leader

Procurement training initiative

The Guiding Plan of Spanish Cooperation 2005 2008 envisages that at least 20 per cent of ODA will be targeted to basic social sectors, in accordance with the 20 20 initiative.

A regional website has also been developed by the Inter American Development Bank, through its Inter American Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development, containing best practices and related news on volunteerism.

The initiative to create the Peacebuilding Commission and proposals to specifically define its activities as a United Nations institution along the lines of the Economic and Social Council are timely and significant.

New Croatian Initiative NHI

The E Tourism initiative

There is also a concern that the Initiative provides for only a modest relaxation of a Government's budget constraints, as under the main provisions of the Initiative a Government may simply swap one type of spending commitment for another of equal value,15 although debt relief has contributed to an increase in social spending.

The PEI Department of Health and Social Services is gathering information relative to the Aboriginal Health Transition Fund, Aboriginal Blueprint process and the Aboriginal Human Resource initiative (see the Introduction to this report).

Poland also joined the Proliferation Security initiative, also known as the Krakow initiative, launched in May 2003, and supported the Interdiction Principles for the initiative adopted in London in October 2003.

Recognises that, in light of the increased threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the Proliferation Security Initiative, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and the G8 Global Partnership Initiative should be approved.

On the initiative of the Government, the use of time among women and men, the coverage of gender equality issues in the media and the problems of poverty and social exclusion have been studied.

In 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the Education for All Initiative as part of the follow up to the World Summit on Social Development.

While this points to the need to anchor the heavily indebted poor countries initiative to a comprehensive development strategy, tailored to suit the needs of each country, it has also been observed that the initiative places too much importance on the role of exports and does not adequately reflect the true burden of debt on social spending.

The Grass roots Initiative Support Programme.

Objectives of the Country led Initiative

This initiative is bearing some fruit.

A fourth initiative is to teach children about the rule of law and personal autonomy this serves to prevent lawbreaking by young persons and to create a better social environment in which they can grow up.

Referring to the high rate of maternal mortality, she noted that the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare had set up a safe maternity initiative emphasizing prenatal care, quality, safe birthing techniques and family planning.

In cases where countries had accumulated significant arrears before benefiting from the Initiative, the transfer of budgetary revenue to the special account used to finance earmarked social expenditures implies additional expenditure, as arrears have to be cleared.

It's called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.