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Acronyms
Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Women 2000: Gender equality, development and peace in the twenty-first century - A/S-23/8
CEB/2005/HLCM/7
Education Grant
Termination on health grounds in relation to disability benefits
Session Reports
One United Nations (Ch 2, paras 20 - 22)
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20. Three premises have guided the UN system’s strategy to support implementation of the Millennium Declaration’s development objectives. First is the holistic nature of human centred development and the consequential linkages and interdependencies both among all three pillars of collective action addressed in the Declaration and among its development goals. For example, while the goal of reducing and ultimately eradicating extreme poverty should be understood as central, progress towards it depends heavily on progress towards all the Declaration’s other objectives. Consider how hunger is the single largest contributor to disease, weakening the immune system, reducing capacity to recover from infection and inhibiting achievement of the goals relating to health. Malnutrition has consequences for goals relating to different stages in the lifecycle: it limits school completion for children; reduces labour productivity and jeopardizes employment, and hence poverty reduction, among adults; and increases the risk of degenerative diseases in later life. At the same time, lack of progress in stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis will jeopardize improvements in areas such as education, employment and health services.
21. The second premise of the UN system’s strategy is that the achievement of the Declaration’s goals and targets requires sustained and, in most cases, enhanced economic growth. This is particularly so in countries facing the greatest development challenges. The UN system’s strategy has therefore placed a core emphasis on improving the conditions for growth in developing countries.
22. This relates directly to a third basic premise: that the achievement of the Millennium Declaration’s development objectives requires the creation of a supportive, enabling international environment. A successful, pro-development and timely conclusion of the Doha Trade Round and the provision of more aid and debt relief have so far fallen short of the Monterrey vision. The UN system stands united in its commitment to realize that vision.
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