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CONFERENCE VIEWPOINT
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Mr
Normand Lauzon Executif Secretary of The United
Nations Capital Development Fund
M Lauzon, your institution
is yet to be known by the general public in our
countries. What is it’s line of activity?
The
United Nations Capital Fund has been set up in 1966
by the United Nations General Assembly. It has been
involved in investment, particularly through its
support to the decentralized public investment and
micro-finance |
What
response would the new established democracies expect
from the numerous decentralized investment needs?
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UNCDF, just like many others development partners
supplies investment credit in the form of grants to
enable local authorities to have access to those investment
in collaboration with the populations. We represent
and organisation which is at the disposal of the LDCs
with a view to help him our too areas of intervention
which I underlined earlier. |
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Mr
Nouréni Tidjani-Serpos, UNESCO Assistant Director
General, Priority Africa Department.
Honourable
Assistant Director General, the LDCs Ministerial Conference
of in which you are taking part focuses on the central
theme of Poverty eradication. You seem not to appreciate
very much such concept… |
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UNESCO, we do not talk about poverty eradication.
It is a dangerous concept we teach youth and children.
On the contrary, when you talk about wealth generation
in the country, job creation, autonomy, this becomes
positive. Thus, you request these young people to
walk headway. Poverty eradication gives the impression
that we are in the presence of beggars, wretched.
Whereas Africa is the richest continent of the world.
There is need for us to transform all the potentials… |
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MRS
Rokiatou TRAORE, Director of International Cooperation
and nationals of Mali living abroad; delegate of the
LDCs Ministerial Conference in Cotonou.
Mrs
TRAORE, you are representing Mali, a land-locked country
which should brave desertification phenomenon. Would
you tell how you appreciate the assistance of institutions
specialised in such area ?
Mali
is a 2/3 desert country and where more than 2/3 of
the population live on 1/3 of the territory. You can
easily guess the extent of the damage caused by the
population on the environment. |
With
support from the international community, we endeavour
to raise populations awareness so that they do not
daily destroy their environment to survive but rather
adopt a protection attitude as far as their living
environment is concerned UNCDF has already been working
to enhance and promote good governance.
This institution has been performing remarkably in
Mali. It has been helping us to guide the populations
by providing them with maximum information. |
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