Translation of "Directeur régional de la sécurité du revenu " (French → English) :

From the Department of Human Resources Development Canada: Deborah Tunis, Director, Social Policy Development, Strategic Policy; Allen Zeesman, Director, Income Security and Social Development Studies, Applied Research Branch.

As explained in the Second Cohesion report, therefore, 'a region which (has) a low level of production might well have a (relatively high) level of final income because of large social security transfers, but it would still be a less favoured region'.

Asia is also home to two-thirds of the world's poor, with 800 million people living on less than $1 per day, with food security, health, and access to basic services still ever-present issues in most of the lower-income countries of the region, and with serious disparities of income and opportunity still challenging many middle-income countries.

This policy framework was complemented by the Communication on the EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from Food Security Crises[5], which underlines how nutrition and resilience are highly interlinked in some contexts (particularly in the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions where resilience is the guiding principle of the AGIR[6] and SHARE[7] multi-partner initiatives to address food and nutrition crises).

5. Welcomes the initiative by the Israeli Ministry of Environment to elaborate a master plan for landscape development in the Lower Jordan River area; urges the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority to take similar initiatives with the aim of adopting master plans for the rehabilitation of sections of the River that flow through their respective territories provided that Israel permits the Palestinian Authority to have access to the Lower Jordan River according to relevant UN Security Council resolutions and International Law; notes that such master plans could become a basis for a comprehensive ...[+++]regional plan to rehabilitate and protect the Lower Jordan River area; takes note of Palestinian Authority plans to establish a West Ghor Canal envisioned in the 1955 Johnston Plan for the irrigation of Palestinian riparian areas of the occupied West Bank;

5. Notes the initiative by the Israeli Ministry of Environment to elaborate a master plan for landscape development in the Lower Jordan River area; asks the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority to take similar initiatives with the aim of adopting master plans for the rehabilitation of sections of the River that flow through their respective territories, provided that Israel permits the Palestinian National Authority to have access to the Lower Jordan River pursuant to relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions and international law; notes that such master plans could become a basis for a comp ...[+++]rehensive regional plan to rehabilitate and protect the Lower Jordan River area; and notes Palestinian National Authority plans to establish a West Ghor Canal, envisioned in the 1955 Johnston Plan, for the irrigation of Palestinian riparian areas of the occupied West Bank;