As part of our in-common campaign, we work with our members and alongside other organizations to ensure a strong and effective Canadian contribution to ending global poverty.

In 2005, the Assembly of First Nations and Elections Canada hosted a two-day first nation voter turnout forum that recommended the development of a communications strategy and collaborative public education outreach focused on sharing information with first nation voters.

With regard to the prevention of violence, including abuse and sexual exploitation perpetrated against children, young people and women and the protection of victims and groups at risk, the European Union can bring added value to the actions predominantly to be undertaken by Member States by the following means: the dissemination and exchange of information, experience and good practices; the promotion of an innovative approach; the joint establishment of priorities; the development of networking as appropriate; the selection of Community-wide projects including projects supporting free-phone child helplines and hotlines for missing ...[+++]and sexually exploited children; the motivation and mobilisation of all parties concerned; and Europe-wide awareness-raising campaigns against violence.

As the day of our first joint campaign undertaking approached, I became increasingly nervous.

(c) the promotion of sustainable energy systems and equipment in order to accelerate their penetration of the market and stimulate investment to facilitate the transition from the demonstration to the marketing of more efficient technologies, including dissemination of best practices and new cross-cutting technologies, awareness campaigns and the creation of institutional structures aimed at implementing the clean development mechanism and joint implementation under the Kyoto Protocol.

Five selection procedures, with a high number of applications per selection round showing interest in the programme, were concluded during 2005 for JEPs (curriculum development, university management, institution-building covering a wide range of areas), structural and complementary measures (design of quality assurance systems, introduction of credit transfer mechanisms, updating of training programmes, the use of information and communication technologies and the strengthening of international relations directly linked to the action lines of the Bologna process) and individual mobility grants (retraining and study periods, preparatory ...[+++]activities for JEPs and participation in specific conferences and seminars).