For these, basic entrepreneurial, managerial and technical support can make the difference between continued stagnation or being placed on a path of upgrading and growth.

Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurship development, managerial and technical skill upgrading, quality improvements, application of appropriate technology and diversification into higher value added activities.

This is being addressed by the Slum Upgrading Facility, a new initiative of UN Habitat aimed at assisting developing countries in mobilizing domestic capital for their slum and urban upgrading activities by facilitating links among local actors and by packaging the financial, technical and political elements of development projects.

C. Slum Upgrading Facility

9. Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and the technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN Habitat to assist developing countries to mobilize public investment and private capital for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services

9. Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and the technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN Habitat to assist developing countries to mobilize public investment and private capital for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services

11. Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and the technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN Habitat to assist developing countries in mobilizing public investment and private capital for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services

Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and the technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN Habitat to assist developing countries to mobilize public investment and private capital for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services

Significant progress was made in establishing the Slum Upgrading Facility, a technical assistance and seed capital vehicle for attracting domestic capital investments for slum upgrading, including raising 1.8 million for the design phase and 10 million for a three year pilot phase, with an additional amount of 10 million pledged.

When fully functional, the Slum Upgrading Facility will provide follow up assistance to ongoing pre investment activities carried out under the Programme's technical cooperation activities (see paras. 17 22, below).

Technical and financial assistance, including exchange of experience, technology and information, to facilitate the necessary upgrading of existing and future MOTAPM to promote their reliability and minimize their humanitarian risks.

Tangible steps taken in this direction are the slum upgrading initiatives in Eastern Africa, including the Kenya slum upgrading programme.

(a) The governing policy in regard to technical assistance for which UN Habitat is the executing agency should be that relevant pilot projects which involve direct technical assistance for slum upgrading be designed to scale up, if they are assessed to have had a positive impact

Upgrading traditional economic sectors though enhanced productivity

(e) Upgrading of outdated systems and technology.

UN Habitat will implement the Facility by combining in house political and technical expertise on slum upgrading with the support of an international service contractor, recruited through competitive bidding, specializing in investment and project finance.

g) Others, for example construction or upgrading of warehouses.

Development of official and private technical and vocational training centres with high performance quality standards to deliver training courses aimed at teaching skills to and upgrading the capacities of heads of families of both sexes with a view to enhancing their self reliance linkage of vocational training programmes with current and anticipated long term job market needs and constant renewal and upgrading of those programmes

If not, one or the other needs upgrading, isn't it?

Help in forming cooperative groups, technical assistance on business methods and upgrading ICT related knowledge, and instituting price controls on basic products in order to protect the poor may also need to be considered by policymakers in developing countries.

Furthermore, the additional resources will, among other things, be used to obtain a coherent and up to date IT platform and a technical upgrading in connection with the handling of surveillance and investigational tasks, e.g. within the IT and telecommunication areas.

Governments and financial institutions are encouraged to contribute generously to the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund, the Slum Upgrading Facility and other technical cooperation trust funds to enable UN Habitat to mobilize public investment and private capital for shelter and basic services.

The Cuban Government remained fully committed to protecting its workers and guaranteeing the pensions of retired persons and the disabled, and had allocated two thirds of the 2005 State budget to upgrading education, health services, social assistance and scientific and technical research.

They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.

Slum upgrading provides a unique opportunity for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

Poverty reduction policies needed to focus on job creation and upgrading skills.

a) Expansion, upgrading and major rehabilitation of primary education and health infrastructure

Upgrading Women's Studies Centres at five major universities to full fledged departments.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

These global forum activities will thus represent an important complement to UNIDO's technical cooperation services, and will cover areas such as the transfer and upgrading of technology, learning, innovation, and the building of skills and capabilities, which have a direct bearing on productivity growth.

Despite the positive examples illustrated in table 1, a number of pilot projects involving direct technical assistance to slum upgrading designed and implemented by UN Habitat in developing countries rarely lead to large scale, long term programmes capable of reversing the growth of slum settlements.

OSCE works to implement its Maastricht decision on upgrading travel documents security through promoting ICAO security standards for the handling and issuance of passports, upgrading to machine readable travel documents and introducing into them biometric identifiers.

Emphasis has been placed on national polices for urban development, shelter and slum upgrading.

The implementation of occupational retraining measures and upgrading the skills of the affected population

The third requires a far reaching overhaul and upgrading of our human rights machinery.

Pursuant to the goals it has established, the Government is upgrading city neighbourhoods and settlements.

The third requires a far reaching overhaul and upgrading of our existing human rights machinery.

During the period under review, significant progress was made in establishing a slum upgrading facility.

Regional bureaux should strengthen their gender expertise by recruiting regional experts and upgrading staff skills.

Current projects targeted the upgrading to the latest version of the programme by implementing ASYCUDA .

Through Cities Alliance, one of UN Habitat's main partners in slum upgrading work is the World Bank.

Pro poor policies could be a means to engage the poor in city development and slum upgrading.

Topics such as trade capacity building, innovation, technology upgrading, investment promotion and SME development would be covered.

According to press reports, Cable and Wireless is upgrading its network with the most technologically advanced systems.

(a) Strengthening national regulatory and justice system infrastructure (upgrading essential legislation, specialized training and improved judicial cooperation)