The root causes of exclusion and the main factors that contribute to making children invisible must be tackled by eradicating extreme poverty, combating HIV/AIDS, providing special assistance to and protection for children caught up in conflict, maintaining assistance to children in failing States, and addressing discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, gender or disability.
A group of 45 senators asked the president to maintain energy assistance and weatherization assistance programs.
He promised Meara that Berlusconi had decided to maintain African assistance levels – even increasing the budget allocation for foreign assistance slightly, to €4.1bn, or 0.27% of GDP.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said America, by far the largest donor, planned to maintain its assistance at about $2bn a year until 2017.
Passage is invariably engineered by a coalition of urban Democratic legislators seeking to maintain food assistance under attack from conservative budget cutters, and rural Republicans determined to shield subsidies for sugar, corn, cotton and other commodities.
Under these deals, Libya was promised more than $225 million to enforce stricter border controls and maintain migrant assistance centers that respect "international humanitarian standards". Last week, Libya's Western-backed government asked European leaders in Brussels for more money to cope with the crisis.
Going forward, we must continue to build on these efforts while still maintaining international assistance. 5. Elevate health as a force for social transformation The AIDS response has crystallized the role of health as a force for social transformation.
Maintain effective development assistance and trade policies for African agriculture.
Many longstanding programs like low-income housing assistance maintain current levels or are cut.
It needs to decide whether to maintain emergency liquidity assistance that has been providing a lifeline.
In order to receive a grant under this division, an eligible entity described in section 1070a 21 c)(1) of this title shall establish or maintain a financial assistance program that awards scholarships to students in accordance with the requirements of this section.
