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The Act established measures for the promotion of the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources from rural areas while ensuring the sustainable development of these areas' agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
The case involves negligence on the part of the police in the investigation of an alleged gang rape of a deaf-mute woman. The court directed the initiation of criminal proceedings against the delinquent officers.
The National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation sets out guidelines and principles for climate change adaptation, as well as identified adaptation goals, for the period of 2013-2020. These goals include improving overall adaptation capacity, fulfilling key adaptation tasks, and forming regional adaptation setups.
The Act implements and gave effect to the obligations of the Kingdom of Tonga concerning certain United Nations counter-terrorism conventions and instruments, as well as the Transnational Organized Crime Convention and Protocols.
The National Energy Policy articulates the Fiji Government's direction for the energy sector from 2013 to 2020. The Government envisions a resource efficient, cost effective, and environmentally sustainable energy sector.
The Communications Strategy seeks to enhance understanding of climate change and climate disaster risk reduction and impacts, enhance relationships among partners to support climate change awareness initiatives, maintain a high profile for the government's climate change initiatives, and strengthen communication capacity, procedures and collaboration across government departments. The Strategy presents certain overarching messages that may be refined and tailored as suitable for the target audience, channel, tool and budget.
The development of this Framework for Implementation of National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) is a follow-up of the NCCP, the parent document providing broader framework concerning how to adapt to the changing impacts of climate and how to play a role in its mitigation. This Framework for Implementation of NCCP is developed keeping in view the current and future anticipated climate change threats to Pakistan’s various sectors.
The use of solid fuels (fuel wood, biomass such as crop residues, rice husk briquettes and cow dung) puts a strain on the country's limited forest resources, as well as causes household pollution which is a serious health hazard. To address this, the action plan defines what is needed to kick-start and develop the clean cookstove market in Bangladesh.
The Act mandates that the Government shall establish a Witness Protection Programme for protection and safety of witnesses in any proceeding relating to the Act. It provides for the actions which may be taken for the protection of the witnesses such as the establishment of a new identity, concealment of identity, compensation to heirs in case of death of the witness due to his/her involvement in the case, and the like.
The Act defines bullying and provides the legal obligation of all elementary and secondary schools to adopt policies which would prevent and address acts of bullying in their institutions.