Sector reports on rural financial markets strategic options and a review of the transport sector.

Urban rural data suggests that the age at first marriage for males in the urban sector is slightly higher at 26 years than that for the rural sector at 25 years.

A vibrant rural sector generates local demand for locally produced goods and services.

Food pricing policies, agricultural techniques, rural non farm activities with employment linkages, rural infrastructure and environmentally appropriate conservation programmes are essential components of support for the rural sector.

The Government considered that boosting the rural sector was a priority and was conducting a programme to guarantee equal opportunities for rural women.

It is also important to have enabling production sector strategies, including those addressing rural development.

In the rural sector, community based initiatives bore testimony to the visible empowerment of women.

In Malawi, for example, rural to rural migration is the principal form of internal migration as people search for seasonal employment in the agricultural sector.

Despite decades of immense government support, Japan s rural sector cannot even aspire to feed its declining population.

We are strengthening the export sector, promoting investments to create jobs and speeding up rural economic development.

They do not cover rural unemployment or underemployment nor do they cover the large and growing informal sector.

(g) To assist in providing training in management skills for women, adapted to the particular conditions of different types of women (urban, rural, formal sector, informal sector, literate, illiterate).

11.14 While these figures reflect the formal sector, the average monthly salary in the informal sector varies quite considerably according to industry as well as between rural and urban settings.

Some youth state that the entrepreneurial spirit should be developed in rural areas, but not exclusively in the agricultural sector.

Aiming at reinforcing women's employment in agriculture, and, in general, in the rural sector, certain motives for rural women have been created by the Operational Programmes of the 3rd Community Support Framework.

Held biennially since 1962, the seminar is designed for leaders of national, regional and local rural youth organizations of the private or public sector and which have responsibility for conducting rural youth work.

Seventy eight per cent of women in Mali lived in rural areas and played an important role in the informal sector.

Farmers should also look beyond their own farms, and participate in efforts of the whole rural sector to mitigate climate change.

But, most important, rapid growth of the domestic market, especially the service sector, needs to largely replace the export sector as the employment engine pulling the rural population into the modern economy.

Indeed, the private sector has a pivotal role to play in rural development, not just in Haiti but throughout the developing world.

Forestry, paper factories, and the agricultural sector (on which taxpayers spend around 3 billion euros annually) are politically sensitive to rural residents.

UNICEF will also reinforce cooperation with the World Bank in supporting national water supply and sanitation programmes, particularly in the rural sector.

In recent years, the Government of Vietnam has carried out many measures to develop the household economic sector, especially in rural areas.

Sustainability will be ensured through stakeholder involvement (including with private sector operators), central and local authorities government, rural communities and entrepreneurs and NGOs.

Moreover, most workers are in the rural sector and do not have the education or job skills required to compete for ICT jobs.

The activity of women in the modern sector, small and medium sized enterprises and the rural sector was affected by such problems as insufficient social and health services and a lack of financing and training.

In these countries, informal sector enterprises are an important provider of employment and income opportunities not only in rural but also in urban areas.

Another sector receiving support is that of agro industries, which can strengthen urban rural linkages critical for job creation, poverty reduction and combating hunger.

72. The strong interlinkage between gender and poverty is evidenced by the rising numbers of households headed by females, particularly in the rural sector.

The rural village electrification programme is an integral part of the total power sector development in Pakistan in order to increase the productive capacity and socio economic standard of 70 percent of population living in the rural areas.

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That is why Haiti needs the private sector now more than ever to help rebuild both the country and the livelihoods of poor rural people.

As a cross cutting service, technical assistance is also provided for developing the agricultural machinery manufacturing sector by establishing rural technology centres for technology transfer and appropriate repair and maintenance of basic agricultural tools and agro processing equipment in rural areas.

In addition of the above mentioned funds, there are other sources of rural development funding, namely projects, Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) and the informal sector characterized by interpersonal interactions at the rural level which allow and give incentives to credit initiatives.

35. Other activities include strengthening of women apos s management of agricultural production support for grain and meat production and the fishery sector support to food security planning and Central American regional projects of rural development and communication for rural development.

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A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro processing, services, and small scale manufacturing.

Sustainable Economic Opportunity The 30 indicators in the Sustainable Economic Opportunity category are divided into four sub categories Public Management, Business Environment, Infrastructure and Rural Sector.

In its Sector Plan, the Ministry of the Environment, privileges the involvement of rural communities, particularly women, in the management of the environment and natural resources.

Meanwhile, the agro industry sector is being improved in order to strengthen urban rural linkages, which are critical for job creation, poverty reduction and combating hunger.

The present health infrastructure in the public sector consists of 906 hospitals, 4,590 dispensaries, 550 Rural Health Centres, 5,308 Basic Health Units and 98,264 hospital beds.

92. Small scale mining has become a mainstay of many rural economies, and in many regions of the world, women have joined men in the sector.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

(d) To analyse the situation of domestic responsibilities for rural women, paying particular attention to those of female headed households, and to propose options for both the private sector and the public sector to bring affordable, viable relief for these responsibilities.

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