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[DOWNLOAD THE COUNTRY PROGRAMME FOR MAURITIUS 2009-2011] UNDP Mauritius Annual Report 2008 The formulation of the new country programme document for Mauritius (2005-2007) was led jointly by the Government of Mauritius and UNDP, with active participation from other partners. The programme focuses on some development priority areas identified mainly in the CCA and in the MDG Status Report, consistent with national priorities. Mauritius became a category C country in January 2004, following the closing of UNICEF and UNFPA offices on 31 December 2003, which left only UNDP and WHO. The 2003 Country Programme Review noted positive key results in the areas of good governance, poverty alleviation, protection of the environment, and gender equality. Given the limited target for resource assignment from the core (TRAC) resources, the new country programme is guided by national development priorities, the comparative advantage of UNDP in the area of poverty alleviation, gender empowerment, environmental protection, available resources and resource mobilization potential from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), trust funds and other partnerships to achieve the MDG targets, foster good governance and build capacity. The new CP between Government of Mauritius and UNDP focus on two broad objectives. (1) Fostering an enabling environment for policy and decision-making in order to achieve the MDGs, with emphasis on poverty reduction, gender equality and empowerment of women, a policy, institutional and regulatory framework for community-based organizations, a national ICT strategy and capacity building for IT incubators, promoting good governance and support government efforts to raise the level of academic achievement in deprived regions. (2) Promotion and protection of the environment and
energy, the focus will be on the removal of barriers to energy efficiency
and energy conservation in buildings, capacity building for sustainable
land management (SLM), partnerships for environmental sustainability
of marine protected areas and a strategy development for sustainable
management and disposal of hazardous substances in a small- island context.
It is evident that there is a nexus between the two objectives which
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