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The Special Rapporteur is grateful to the Government for inviting him, for facilitating his visit and for continuing its cooperation with the Council’s accountability mechanisms that apply to all States.1 2. (...) Similarly, large numbers of welfare recipients are assumed to be living high on “the dole”. (...) The percentage of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit dollars issued to ineligible households or to eligible households in excessive amounts was as low as 2.96 per cent in 2014. 46 According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the overwhelming majority of those errors result from mistakes by different parties, rather than from dishonesty or fraud by recipients.47 Almost 60 per cent of the dollar value of overpayments by states resulted from mistakes by the government, rather than recipients.48 In 2015, 55 per cent of 723,111 investigations found no fraud.49 41 Robert A.

Additionally, he is grateful to the representatives of the following federal government departments who met with him: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Health Canada; Human Resources and Skills Development Canada; Justice Canada; and the Canadian International Development Agency. (...) The Special Rapporteur also extends his gratitude to the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, the Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation and the International Indian Treaty Council for facilitating his visits in Alberta (where he met with chiefs, council members and communities from Treaties 6, 7, 8, the Enoch Cree First Nation and the Northwest Territories). He is grateful for the hospitality of the First Nations communities, and he thanks them for their time and engagement with him. (...) et al., Affordability of a Nutritious Diet for Income Assistance Recipients in Nova Scotia (2002-2010), Canadian Journal of Public Health; For Ontario, see James Milway et al., The Poor Still Pay More: Challenges Low Income Families Face in Consuming a Nutritious Diet, Institute for Competitiveness Prosperity, December 2010. 29 Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates for a single person are Can$1,064 per month for basic needs and shelter. 30 Daily Bread Food Bank, “Fighting Hunger, Who’s Hungry: 2011 Profile of Hunger in the GTA,” p. 5, A/HRC/22/50/Add.1 12 GE.12-18955 the average amount remaining per person per day after rent and utilities are paid is $5.67, and 46 per cent of people living in subsidized housing have reported not eating for an entire day because of lack of money for food.31 36.

The purpose of the visit was to assess the consistency between the Government’s anti-poverty policies and its human rights obligations and to offer recommendations to the Government and other stakeholders. He is grateful to the Government for inviting him and facilitating his visit and for engaging in constructive dialogue. (...) This inability continues, despite calls by the international community for Lebanon to diversify its economy dating back to 2018.7 While the country desperately needs an economic relief package negotiated with international 1 The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the excellent research and analysis undertaken by Paula Fernandez-Wulff and staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2 See https://www.srpoverty.org/schedule-lebanon-mission/. 3 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2020. 4 Central Administration of Statistics, consumer price index, December 2021. 5 Gallup, “Leaving Lebanon: crisis has most people looking for exit”, 2 December 2021. 6 Reuters, “Analysis: Lebanon’s savers to bear burden under new rescue plan”, 3 February 2022. 7 Reuters, “Lebanon wins pledges exceeding $11 billion in Paris”, 6 April 2018. (...) Those interest rates were already deemed above market by the IMF in 201657 and represented windfall profits to the recipients to an equivalent of 10 per cent of GDP.58 While this operation arguably strengthened the capital buffers of banks,59 it weakened the financial stability of the banking sector by generating significant losses on the BDL balance sheet, ultimately leading to the currency collapse and depositor wealth destruction.

The Special Rapporteur is grateful to the Government for inviting him and facilitating his visit and for its continuing engagement. (...) The percentage of those living on less than $1.90 per day fell from 52.4 per cent in 1997 to 22.7 per cent in 2012, which reflects the most recent data available.3 Net secondary school enrolment has increased from 27 per cent in 2002 to 50 per cent in 2012.4 The rate of women dying of pregnancy-related causes fell by half between 2005 and 2015,5 and, although a troubling 33 per cent of children under 5 years of age are stunted, that percentage is down from 44 per cent in 2012.6 The Government has established the Poverty 1 The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the excellent research and analysis undertaken by Bassam Khawaja, Rebecca Riddell and staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 2 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx? (...) According to one research institute, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic received the fourth highest amount of aid, among recipients of Chinese non-concessional official flows in the world from 2000 to 2014.

The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the support provided by the United Nations country team, and especially grateful for the logistical and substantive support provided by the Human Rights Unit within the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). 3. (...) The Special Rapporteur is grateful to her interlocutors, including the women who shared their experiences of survival with her.

In particular, he is grateful to the Government of Japan for its invitation and willingness to engage in constructive dialogue. (...) The relatively high use of loans reflects the belief of Japan that the requirement to repay encourages recipients to be fiscally responsible and to allocate resources more efficiently. (...) About one third of Japanese ODA is provided to multilateral organizations. The largest recipients are the World Bank (US$ 1.55 billion) and regional development banks (US$ 969 million), followed by United Nations agencies (US$ 679 million). 18.

The Indigenous Fund shall organize its operations according to a system of classification by programme and project area, in order to facilitate the concentration of administrative and financial efforts and the programming by means of periodic financial statements that will permit the fulfilment of its specific objectives. 6.2. Recipients. The direct, exclusive recipients of programmes and projects supported by the Indigenous Fund shall be the indigenous peoples of Latin American and Caribbean States which are members of the Fund or have signed a special agreement with the Fund enabling their country’s indigenous peoples to participate in its activities, in accordance with article 5. 6.3. (...) The General Meeting shall adopt specific criteria for determining the eligibility of applicants to and recipients of the Indigenous Fund in an interdependent manner, taking into account the diversity of its recipients, and for establishing priorities among programmes and projects. 6.4. (...) Special consideration shall be given to requests to that end made by the recipients of such programmes and projects.

Freshwater resources A/53/358 19 Country Description of Projects Cost in USD Dates of Initiation & Completion Observations Japan Recipient: Fiji Project: Study on groundwater development 6.9 million 1993/1995 Feasibility confirmed Japan Recipient: Jamaica Project: Development of water supply system 37 million 1988/1997 Japan Recipient: Papua New Guinea Project: Water supply development project 15.1 million 1994/1996 Port Moresby Japan Recipient: Solomon Islands Project: Improvement of water supply system 8.3 million 1996/1998 New Zealand Recipients: Cook Islands,Solomon Islands, Vanuatu Project: Waterway access; water supply and sanitation; technical advice and training on water resources 1.5 million 1994/1998 Various projects VI. (...) Project: Feasibility study on agricultural development project 2.6 million 1994/1995 Japan Recipient: Fiji Project: Mineral exploration 1.5 million 1995/1998 Japan Recipient: Jamaica Project: Development of Blue Mountain coffee production 25 million 1984/1997 New Zealand Recipients: Cook Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu Project: Soil and crop evaluation; land management; subsistence and commercial agriculture; agricultural research 2.3 million 1994/1998 Various projects New Zealand Recipients: Fiji, Niue Project: Development of hardwood forestry 965,000 1994/1998 Various projects New Zealand Recipients: Fiji, Kiribati and Pacific region Project: Developing nature tourism; village/home improvement; fresh produce marketing 1.5 million 1994/1998 Various projects VII. (...) Science and technology Japan Recipient: Singapore Project: Development of expertise in artificial intelligence technology 10.5 million 1990/1995 Developed 10 prototype applications New Zealand Recipients: Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tuvalu Project: Support to meteorological services 1.6 million 1994/1998 XIV.

The Independent Expert is grateful to the Government of Morocco for its invitation and full cooperation during her visit. (...) It also calls for an international monitoring system to ensure that donors and recipients are mutually accountable. In 2008, Morocco reported on progress made in implementing the Paris Declaration. 9 “Morocco between Millennium Development Goal and Sustainable Development Goals, p. 14. 10 See World Bank Group, “Country partnership strategy for the Kingdom of Morocco for the period FY 2014-2017”.

She also appreciates the spirit of openness with which she was able to engage in dialogue with the authorities. She is grateful to the United Nations Information Centre for its support and offers her sincere gratitude to everyone who took the time to meet her, particularly those who shared personal experiences. (...) In 2015, the number of recipients amounted to around 1.6 million persons, of whom 542,796 were children aged 15 or less and 836,645 were women.28 32.