Sustainable human development defined

For the purposes of sections 3 and 6(2), the expression “sustainable human development” shall be construed to include but not to be limited to any of the following10 (a) a programme of activities by a Non- Governmental Organisation which promotes, protects, educates and encourages respect of human rights generally and the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in Chapter II of the Belize Constitution in particular; (b) a programme of activities which encourages, promotes, protects and develops the educational system to meet the basic needs of the Belizean society and economy; (c) a programme of activities which educates the Belizean public or any section thereof about the Belize Constitution and laws and their constitutional and legal rights and obligations as enshrined thereunder; (d) a programme of activities that assists communities in general, and certain marginalised groups like women and the youth in particular, in the planning, implementation and successful execution of community-based developmental projects; (e) a programme of activities that promotes and encourages the responsible conservation, protection and sustainable use of Belize’s natural environment, resources, antiquities and monuments; (f) a programme of activities that promotes and encourages the formation and sustainable growth of social and civil society organisations, groups and societies concerned with the constitutional and legal rights of workers, and the legal rights of fishermen, farmers, indigenous peoples, women, children, youth, the elderly, the disabled, Non-Governmental Organisations[CAP. 315 11 marginalised sections of the society and other disadvantaged social groups; (g) a programme of activities that promotes and encourages in Belize the observance of primary and secondary health care and sanitary standards and health education; (h) a programme of activities that assists local, rural or urban communities in engaging in income generating production projects; (i) a programme of activities that promotes, among Belize’s multi-cultural citizens, patriotism and national consciousness as Belizeans over and above identity at the ethnic level; (j) a programme of activities that promotes, protects and disseminates Belizean culture, or the culture of a specific cultural or ethnic group thereof; (k) a programme of activities that promotes the participation of women in all spheres of national development, and that promotes gender awareness issues and sensitivity; (l) a programme of activities that aims to provide supervised micro-credit schemes to community groups for the implementation of income generating projects; (m) a programme of activities that improves and maintains the well-being of the people and the natural environment of Belize, and that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations, as well as which respects all human rights and 12 observes the principles of equity, co-operation and solidarity; or (n) any other programme of activities which promotes sustainable human development.