Private Sector Partnership Vital for Poverty Eradication
12 February 2010
[Port Vila – February 12] Working in partnership with the private sector can lift more people out of poverty and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and moral leadership has a key role to play in this, Mark Ingram, Chief Executive Officer of Business for Millennium Development said today. “The only way to unleash the latent potential of the poor and achieve the MDGs is to partner in business with the poor,” said Mr. Ingram at a lunch time session at the Pacific Conference on the Human Face of the Global Economic Crisis held in Vanuatu over the last three days.
12 February 2010
[Port Vila – February 12] Working in partnership with the private sector can lift more people out of poverty and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and moral leadership has a key role to play in this, Mark Ingram, Chief Executive Officer of Business for Millennium Development said today. “The only way to unleash the latent potential of the poor and achieve the MDGs is to partner in business with the poor,” said Mr. Ingram at a lunch time session at the Pacific Conference on the Human Face of the Global Economic Crisis held in Vanuatu over the last three days.
Regional Response to Protect the Pacific's Vulnerable
12 February 2010
[Port Vila – February 12] The human face of the vulnerable in the Pacific could be a young girl in Tokelau straining her eyes to read her school books by the light of a kerosene lamp. Another human face of the vulnerable in the Pacific could be an elderly woman in Solomon Islands elated to have her own water tank to store clean drinking water. Yet another human face of the vulnerable could be a young boy from Kiribati who has been denied the appropriate medical treatment because there are no doctors at the hospital to attend to him.
12 February 2010
[Port Vila – February 12] The human face of the vulnerable in the Pacific could be a young girl in Tokelau straining her eyes to read her school books by the light of a kerosene lamp. Another human face of the vulnerable in the Pacific could be an elderly woman in Solomon Islands elated to have her own water tank to store clean drinking water. Yet another human face of the vulnerable could be a young boy from Kiribati who has been denied the appropriate medical treatment because there are no doctors at the hospital to attend to him.
Gender Equality A Must to Address Crisis
12 February 2010
[Port Vila, Vanuatu – February 11, 2010] The impact of the global economic and financial crisis in the Pacific cannot be fully addressed unless gender is integrated in all the responses. Merilyn Tahi, the coordinator of the Vanuatu...
12 February 2010
[Port Vila, Vanuatu – February 11, 2010] The impact of the global economic and financial crisis in the Pacific cannot be fully addressed unless gender is integrated in all the responses. Merilyn Tahi, the coordinator of the Vanuatu...
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark Calls for Increased Social Protection in the Pacific
10 February 2010
Port Vila, Vanuatu, February 10 – The ongoing economic and financial crisis presents an opportunity to implement social protection programmes in the Pacific that address the needs of the vulnerable, said United Nations Development Programme...
10 February 2010
Port Vila, Vanuatu, February 10 – The ongoing economic and financial crisis presents an opportunity to implement social protection programmes in the Pacific that address the needs of the vulnerable, said United Nations Development Programme...
ADB VP TO VISIT VANUATU
09 February 2010
(Manila, Philippines, 3 February 2010) – Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President C. Lawrence Greenwood Jr. will visit Vanuatu next week to attend the "Pacific Conference on the Human Face of the Global Economic Crisis...
09 February 2010
(Manila, Philippines, 3 February 2010) – Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President C. Lawrence Greenwood Jr. will visit Vanuatu next week to attend the "Pacific Conference on the Human Face of the Global Economic Crisis...