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The Special Rapporteur was encouraged to learn that Switzerland operated a generalized system of preferences for developing countries, meaning that the agricultural products of those countries can be imported at a lower rate of duty. (...) Generalized systems of trade preferences are not enough in themselves to encourage imports from least developed countries. (...) It is focused on equality in employment relationships and applies to all private and public employment relationships, regardless of the size of the employer or number of employees; private households; multinational companies; municipalities; public institutions, such as hospitals and schools; and the federal administration and large public entities.

We urge our development partners, countries of both the North and the South, the United Nations development system, multilateral development banks, the International Monetary Fund, the private sector and foundations to act on our calls as early as possible. (...) This could affect many LDCs that are highly dependent on foreign investors both for export-oriented industrial activity and in public-private partnership projects in infrastructure development such as power generation plants and industrial parks. (...) We also call upon creditors, both public and private, for additional effective measures A/75/534 20-14061 15/23 to facilitate financing of our economic development, including access to

We also call upon creditors, both public and private, for additional effective measures to facilitate financing of our economic development, including access to both concessional and non-concessional resources for investment in critically needed infrastructure and development projects. (...) (d) Facilitating increased access to other means of financing, including private finance, green bond financing and GDP-indexed bonds. (...) (g) Legal assistance to transition from the EU’s Everything But Arms to the enhanced Generalised Scheme of Preferences to mitigate abrupt loss of preferences as the GSP+ offers an additional preference (in some cases comparable with the EBA).

It is a matter of concern that foreign investors overstate domestic risks and we invite national, regional and global development banks to play an instrumental role in mobilizing private capit al for specific projects, through co-financing, providing risk guarantees and other instruments. (...) We also call upon creditors, both public and private, for additional effective measures to facilitate financing of our economic development, including access to both concessional and non-concessional resources for investment in critically needed infrastructure and development projects. (...) We call upon all actors, including development partners, intergovernmental financial institutions, the private sector and civil society, to work together to ensure universal, seamless and affordable access to energy, especially renewable energy to LDCs, with the establishment of modern generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.

The indicators cover various aspects of life, such as family, health, participation, housing, education, employment and economic status, for persons with disabilities aged between 20 and 66 living in private homes. However, there is no official data available on children and youth with disabilities below 20 years of age, or on persons with disabilities aged over 67. (...) The latter require that all new public and private buildings open to the public, including workplaces, have universal design. (...) Under the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act, public and private employers have a duty to provide reasonable accommodation to workers and job seekers with disabilities (in line with articles 2 and 27 of the Convention), and to make active efforts to promote equality in the workplace.

Awareness-raising and sensitization needed to target specifically the private sphere and informal carers, particularly as collective prejudice against older persons and public awareness influenced the way in which abuse and violence was perceived, recognized and reported. 32. (...) It also covered accessibility to public transport, public and private properties and services, and equality under law and before State and other authorities. (...) Problems occurred when an older person, who had been prescribed medical examinations or medicine, could not obtain them in public health institutions (including public pharmacies), so had to go to private health institutions and pay for the examinations and medicine.

Through the same sector reform, a private operator, Sénégalaise des Eaux, became responsible for operating the public water service in those urban areas. (...) The Directorate monitors the quality of drinking water and promotes activities to sensitize communities on hygiene standards. E. Private sector involvement in the provision of water 28. (...) Moreover, regardless of the chosen modalities of concession to the private sector, further attention to the regulation of the water and sanitation sectors is crucial (see paragraphs 33 to 37 below), and Senegal must, at least, empower an independent monitoring body to ensure that both public and private providers deliver sanitation and water to all without discrimination, at affordable costs and with adequate quality.

We call for multi-stakeholder partnerships that will bring together government, private sector, civil society, academia and communities focusing on integrated adaptation, mitigation and resilience planning at national and local levels. (...) We also call for a dedicated financing mechanism that delivers catalytic investment capital for SMEs and small investment projects in African LDCs and Haiti to mobilize sustainable private investments that advance the SDGs and act as a crisis facility to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. 32. (...) We also call upon creditors, both public and private, for additional effective measures to facilitate financing of our economic development, including access to grants and concessional resources for investment in critically needed infrastructure and development projects to avoid further indebtedness.

(b) Pillar 2 - Enable changes through circularity, transformative multistakeholder and public-private partnerships, tools and solutions across high-impact systems and sectors 1) The strategy contributes to shift societal choices and markets towards low- carbon, circular, less-polluting and nature-supportive consumption and production patterns, with a view of reducing their environmental footprint and addressing, wherever relevant, the challenges of over- and under-consumption. (...) A/77/607 8/20 22-27397 efforts in this area will be established with the partners of the One Planet Network, building on leading platforms on circularity15 and key public and private stakeholders, such as the finance community, to encourage the implementation of circular economy policies and business models in high-impact systems and sectors, and contribute to the achievement of several targets set by the international community, in particular under SDG12 (SDG 12.216, SDG 12.417 and SDG 12.518). (...) b) Sustainable Construction and Built Environment: the objective is to support governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to have access to strategic principles, tools and solutions that can help mainstream a holistic approach to buildings, construction and infrastructures, through a whole-life cycle approach, circularity, material efficiency and low-emission solutions, including passive solutions (lightning, ventilation, heating).

Nearly 2,500 media outlets function in the country of which approximately, 90% are private. Today Kazakhstan is an important international center of inter-cultural and inter- religious dialogue. (...) Creating an effective private sector economy and developing public private partnerships. (...) • The attitude towards budgeting processes must become as careful and thoughtful, as to private investments. In other words, not a single tenge from the budget should be wasted