Protecting vulnerable groups

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Where necessary, governments should promote (i) the organization of national, intercountry and interregional symposia and other meetings for exchange of information among agencies and groups concerned with the health of children, youth, women and indigenous peoples, and (ii) women's organizations, youth groups, indigenous peoples' organizations and various bodies and organizations under occupation, to facilitate health; and consult them on the creation, amendment and enforcement of legal frameworks to ensure a healthy environment for children, youth, women, indigenous peoples and people under occupation.

1. Strengthening capacity
2. Strengthening
3. Protecting the vulnerable
4. Protecting against vulnerability

1. Respecting rights of vulnerable groups during states of emergency
2. Providing foreign aid in support of impoverished vulnerable groups
3. Protecting vulnerable women
4. Protecting vulnerable groups during disasters
5. Integrating poverty alleviation in vulnerable areas into national development strategies
6. Developing human resources to protect vulnerable groups
7. Assessing influence of vulnerable groups on sustainable development
8. Assessing costs and financing to protect vulnerable groups

1. Protecting against excessive institutionalization of vulnerable groups

1. Lack of protection for the vulnerable

1. Vulnerability
2. Undercapacity
3. Overcapacity
4. Capacity