The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed an agreement to help some countries in Asia and the Pacific region, including the Philippines, to reduce poverty and inequalities and improve child welfare.
The agreement was signed with five years remaining until the 2015 deadline for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Manila-based bank said in a statement released to media on Thursday.
The ADB said the two agencies will look for opportunities to work together to accelerate the achievement of the MDGs, including reducing infant and maternal mortality rates, improving the quality and relevance of basic education, promoting investments in water and hygiene, strengthening child protection systems, and combating HIV/AIDS.
They will also look at opportunities to cooperate on public-private partnerships and enable the poor to participate in and benefit from economic growth, the bank said.
The ADB said the agreement will run for five years from the date of the signing of the agreement, and it may be extended by mutual consent.
Apart from the Philippines, priority areas for the project include Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Georgia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, the bank said. —JE/VS, GMANews.TV
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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