An important second goal was to provide rural tele education services to underserved areas.

In a few instances in Zambia, for example countries report that staff are being redeployed to underserved areas.

Vinay Venkatraman Technology crafts for the digitally underserved

3. we must believe that the opportunity is currently underserved and

UNICEF will strengthen its capacity to support high impact national programme initiatives in the focus areas of this MTSP, particularly to support the expansion of basic services to the most underserved populations.

To prepare the region for the forthcoming satellite broadband services, fostering public private partnerships for an affordable and sustainable service mechanism that would support broadband penetration into remote and underserved areas was essential.

The round table recognized that space technology could help bridge the digital divide through satellite connected community e centres to support the provision of ICT services and development oriented applications for underserved areas.

The challenge of providing treatment, care and support in historically underserved communities is daunting, and cannot be minimized.

Although not all slum dwellers are poor, those having the greatest needs are among the poor and underserved populations focused on by the Programme of Action when it stresses the importance of providing underserved groups with information, education, jobs, skill development and reproductive health services (para.

In the second quarter of 1997, attention focused on underserved areas, particularly in north Lebanon and the northern Bekaa, which are generally believed to have a high incidence of poverty confirming efforts to attract additional financing to bring these areas within the mainstream of development, made through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported programme of Integrated Rural Development for Baalbeck Hermel in recent years.

The Programme of Action also recognizes that high priority should be given to meeting the needs, and increasing the opportunities, for information, education, jobs, skill development and relevant reproductive health services, of all underserved members of society (para. 3.19), who generally include the poor in both urban and rural areas.

The full implementation of the Programme of Action would ensure access to health care services for all people and especially for the most underserved and vulnerable groups.

The Programme of Action provides guidance on the types of improvements required and, implicitly, recognizes the importance of targeting programmes to satisfy the particular needs of underserved population groups.

The new global infrastructure that WorldSpace was creating would enable broadcasters and advertisers to reach underserved emerging markets, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Additionally, 25,241 underserved refugee children and young people took advantage of various training or tutoring and skills building activities in computers, languages, leadership training, sports, theatre, music, and summer and winter camps.

China 2030 also calls for expanding opportunities, promoting social security, and reducing the country s relatively high social and economic inequality by addressing the rural urban disparities in access to jobs, finance, and high quality public services. Doing so will require greater sustained attention to underserved rural areas and migrant populations, and to restructuring social policies in order to ensure secure safety nets.

Recognizing the need to strengthen national health and social infrastructures to reinforce measures to eliminate discrimination in access to public health, information and education for all people, especially for the most underserved and vulnerable groups,

Recognizing the need to strengthen national health and social infrastructures to reinforce measures to eliminate discrimination in access to public health, information and education for all people, and especially for the most underserved and vulnerable groups,

Recognizing the need to strengthen national health and social infrastructures to reinforce measures to eliminate discrimination in access to public health, information and education for all people, and especially for the most underserved and vulnerable groups,

(b) To strengthen the capacity of health systems to provide the essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that do occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post partum care, to young women and girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common

In fact, the poorest areas were not rural areas but areas adjacent to large cities.

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(c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay

c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay d) Countries with areas prone to natural disasters

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Urban areas grew at the expense of rural areas.

In urban areas poverty affects badly the slum areas.

Noting that addressing the information and communications needs of the poor and marginalized was an important component of a wider strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion, he said that access to communication media, especially for underserved and marginalized groups, must be increased.

There was considerable interest in creating new global satellite systems to offer communication services to parts of the world that were currently underserved, and to exploit the anticipated growth in demand for data distribution arising from the computer to computer distribution of multimedia.

TB centers in urban areas outnumber those in rural areas.

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The fall was higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

(a) Illiteracy rates Blacks, 43 per cent in rural areas and 23.2 per cent in urban areas Whites, 20 per cent in rural areas and 7.3 per cent in urban areas

The economic activity rates for females in rural areas are higher than in urban areas owing to the fact that women's employment is more concentrated in rural areas than in urban areas

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