The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds thatalmost two-thirds of the Ryan budget’s spending cuts would comefrom such programs.

The State has decided to use its budget to build a center for women and development under the Women's Union of Vietnam and is study the project to establish the Institute for Women in order to response more effectively to women's needs for comprehensive development and female personnel training.

In this regard, UNICEF involvement in SWAps has several aims: provide technical advice on child-related issues; advocate for full coverage of services for children; and strengthen the capacity of Governments to exercise effective leadership over development policies, programmes and budgets that are child-centered and oriented to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals and to manage resources and improve decision-making for results.

Prince Faisal Ibn Fahd Ibn Abdelaziz - may Allay Rest his soul in peace - to an important sector of its future activities in the field of Islamic Heritage, in appreciation of His High Highness's unflagging support, during the Chairmanship of the Islamic Commission for the Preservation of Islamic Cultural Heritage, lauds particularly the efforts made by IRCICA's Governing Board in its 19th Session (Istanbul, 2-3 Dhul Hijja 1424H/24-25 January 2004) in which it discussed the proposals previously formulated by the Centre, the note of the General Secretariat of the OIC on the purpose, and the letter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the subject, and lauds the Governing Board's recommendation commissioning IRCICA to reserve a new innovative and large-scale activity to be concretized with the creation of an Award carrying the name of “Prince Faisal bin Fahad Award for the Preservation of Islamic Cultural Heritage” which will take place periodically through an international competition in one field of the preservation of Islamic Cultural Heritage and will be sponsored from the Center's budget. The first Competition will be devoted to the Preservation of Islamic Architectural Heritage.