Design choices about the geographic scale, inclusion of sectors, the generation and delineation of adaptation options, specification of possible pathways, the related performance metrics and the type of assessment are interdependent, but they are also influenced by contextual aspects.
Without more inclusion of the sector by both governments and funders in programs and education sector plans, many of the world's poorest children continue to be underserved, in turn, perpetuating the cycle of poverty and illiteracy.
The need to quantify the carbon stocks in cocoa systems in Ghana is necessitated by the recent inclusion of the sector as an option that could result in a net increase in terrestrial carbon stocks.
Now readers of this column won't be surprised that arguably the most important national story of rising indebtedness is that of China: including financial sector borrowing, its indebtedness since 2007 has almost quadrupled, from $7.4tn to $28.2tn, or from 158% of GDP to 282% of GDP (nb the increment here is different from the one for China above, because of the inclusion of financial sector debt).
The inclusion of private sector, state and civil society actors from both high and low income states on the Global Fund Board reflects the growing role of non-state actors on the global stage.
"The inclusion of private-sector business leaders to head the key economic ministries is in itself a powerful signal that this is the time for fundamental change," said Kumbirai Katsande, president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries.
Bridging the gap between the NCCP (inclusion of the health sector) and the NCCAS (exclusion of the health sector) is vital.
Last week, the European Commission emphasized that the attack would not set back its plans to include international airlines in the system beginning in 2012, and it vowed to impose "high-security standards in its legislation to prepare for the inclusion of the aviation sector" in the system.
The recent inclusion of the cocoa sector as an option for carbon storage necessitates the need to quantify the C stocks in cocoa systems of Ghana.
With the recent inclusion of the cocoa sector in the national C emission accounting budgets of Ghana [13], the need to quantify the carbon sequestered in cocoa ecosystems is urgent.
