He assured that all information collected would be kept strictly confidential and appealed for full support from the trade to the survey.

One CE post is grossly insufficient to cope with these duties together with the additional workload due to resumption of HOS as well as those arising from other housing initiatives and the increased complexity in public housing planning and development works, such as the redevelopment of aged estates; increasing number of engineering feasibility studies; active participation in public consultations; increasing number of supporting projects under CWRF Head 711; more infrastructure improvement works and contract administration works; increasing number of engineering researches on development and standard to meet new environmental and engineering requirements; and enhancement of land surveying services.

It also repeals the six existing survey orders, namely, Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Industrial Production) Order (Cap. 316A), Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Wholesale, Retail and Import and Export Trades, Restaurants and Hotels) Order (Cap. 316C), Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Building, Construction and Real Estate Sectors) Order (Cap. 316E), Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Banks, Deposit-taking Companies, restricted Licence Banks and Representative Offices of Foreign Banks) Order (Cap. 316H), Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Storage, Communication, Financing, Insurance and Business Services) Order (Cap. 316I) and Census and Statistics (Annual Survey of Transport and Related Services) Order (Cap. 316J).

This entails a range of different initiatives, including: the preparation of “data plans” in close consultation with national statisticians to facilitate international reporting; the implementation of a new internal Data Quality Monitoring Framework; and the regular review and refinement of survey instruments and indicator frameworks.

They would conduct a large scale survey later to follow-up on the issue.

This entails a range of initiatives including: the preparation of “data plans” in close consultation with national statisticians to facilitate international reporting; the internal implementation of UIS Data Quality Monitoring Framework; and the regular review and refinement of survey instruments and indicator frameworks.

In this context, the Meeting noted that Eritrea might benefit from outreach to international mine action operators or advisors in order to take advantage of the latest survey methods, equipment and lessons learned on land release as well as to access additional sources of international funding.

The staffing establishment of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts/Headquarters Property Survey Board secretariat is currently comprised of four posts (1 D-1, 1 P-4, 1 P-3, 1 General Service (Other level)) funded from the support account for peacekeeping as well as four posts (1 P-5, 1 P-3, 2 General Service (Other level)) funded from the regular budget.

The basis of determining the emoluments payable to the Directors was a market survey included in the independent consultant’s report.

secretariat strengthen its efforts with regard to the sharing of experiences on the effectiveness of measures being employed to deal with the adverse impact of the financial and economic crisis and, in that regard, suggested that the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2010 include policy options to mitigate the adverse impact of the crisis.

Within the framework of the project, a survey is carried out to find out the awareness of employers about gender equality, attitudes to the issue and implementation of gender equality legislation in the private sector; to receive an overview of the guidelines, methods and measures used in the private sector of the EU member states to implement the principle of equal treatment of women and men and to promote gender equality; to draw up guidelines for the private sector workers in Estonia, inter alia for drafting the basic principles of wage calculation and criteria of work evaluation to eliminate the wage gap between women and men; to increase the private sector awareness of the relevant legislation and to improve their knowledge and skills in using the means and methods for promoting gender equality, and to create a network of private sector employers and interest groups to mediate information, experience and best practices on promoting gender equality.

As for changes in the number of smokers and their smoking frequency and habits, the impact of second-hand smoke outside the statutory no smoking areas, as well as public reaction towards the overall tobacco control efforts after the implementation of the amended Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (the Ordinance), we will conduct survey and study at a later stage to assess the effect of the new legislation.

The Working Group was mandated to: (a) survey the past and present activities of the United Nations and other relevant international organizations with regard to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction; (b) examine the scientific, technical, economic, legal, environmental, socio-economic and other aspects of those issues; (c) identify key issues and questions where more detailed background studies would facilitate consideration by States of those issues; (d) indicate, where appropriate, possible options and approaches to promote international cooperation and coordination for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.

Appropriate planning, use of information and communication technologies, and special outreach efforts in the implementation of the statistical survey should help solicit wider participation.

Mr. Makanaky suggested that the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development could start a series of long-term research projects to deliver data for decision-makers; UNESCO could assist States and academia in setting up programmes that would connect the African diaspora with the African continent; WHO could sponsor regional initiatives to address challenges faced by people of African descent in the area of health; ILO could conduct a survey on discrimination against people of African descent at work; the United Nations Development Programme, as the coordinator of the United Nations family, could follow up on initiatives decided by the Working Group.

Problem drug users tend to be more marginalized and less likely to be captured in a population-based survey; thus, special methods and techniques are required to estimate the size of that subgroup.

International, regional and national-level organizations, such as the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and the United States Geological Survey, and initiatives, such as Sentinel Asia and the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, had provided imagery and maps to the national space agency of Pakistan to assist during the disasters.

In cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics, under the auspices of the World Bank and with the contribution of the experts of the European Bureau of the WHO the preparation of the organisation of the household survey have been initiated, planned for implementation in the half of 2008, which will allow the valuation of the healthcare related expenses, including of the informal payment with a much more objective identification of persons that require direct financial protection from the state when paying insurance premiums.

Based on the results of the pilot test, some minor modifications to the survey arrangements were made but no change to the questionnaire was required.

Under this item, delegations will be invited to address the issues referred to in paragraph 73 (a) and (b) of General Assembly resolution 59/24, namely: to survey the past and present activities of the United Nations and other relevant international organizations with regard to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction; and to examine the scientific, technical, economic, legal, environmental, socio-economic and other aspects of these issues.

The Commission had before it the summary of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2012 (E/ESCAP/68/21) and the summary of the theme study for the sixty-eighth session (E/ESCAP/68/22).

Besides, in terms of various kinds of public policies, another survey in late April showed that, among the 25 issues, the 11 issues which people are most concerned with, in the priority from 1 to 10, are 1) increasing job opportunities and alleviating the unemployment problem, 2) lifting the leading ability of the government, 3) improving air quality, 4) improving public health mechanism, 5) poverty problem, 6) improving relations between the executive and legislative branches, 7) implementing small-class teaching in primary schools, 8) reforming the CSSA system. 9) re-developing old districts, 10) setting up a centralized slaughtering system for poultry and "up and down" bus fare adjustment mechanism.

Data collected from the survey will be analyzed to monitor the situation of women and children globally, enabling countries to track their progress against national goals and global commitments, including the Millennium Development Goals.

As part of the review process a 12 months Short Term Land Reform Project completed at the end of 2008 focused on issues such as: land lease audits, raising awareness to the public, review of legislations such as: Land Lease Act, Land Acquisition Act, Strata Title Act, Valuation Act, Land Survey Act and the Lands Tribunal Act and also review of land lease administrative systems and the re-zoning of Luganville town.

By making the best use of the expertise and high technologies cultivated through the rich experience, KCS offers a wide range of services such as installation of earthquake detection systems in nearby seas in Japan, a survey on cable burial conditions and whale behavior using the autonomous underwater robot, AE2000, and the best route selection for submarine cable laying, in addition to the services using the cable ships.

According to a recent assessment conducted by UNEP and the Centre for Technology and Industrial Information Management (see document by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), “Sustainable consumption and production, mining, transport, chemicals and waste management: the results, trends and challenges of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean”), 14 out of the 20 countries surveyed in the region have instituted mechanisms (policies, programmes, projects or plans) to accelerate change towards sustainable consumption and production.

Although the no-fly zone addressed the entire Libyan territory, the active part covered by NATO was from the northern boundary of the Libyan flight information region to the 25th parallel; according to NATO, south of this line, the Libyan air space contiguous to Egypt, the Sudan, Chad, the Niger and Algeria was not surveyed.

In response to the request for a comprehensive review of ethics-related activities in the Secretariat made by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in its report on the 2005 World Summit Outcome (A/60/7/Add.13 and Corr.1 and 2), the Ethics Office had conducted a survey of departments and offices regarding rules, guidelines or training that had been developed to inform staff members how to discharge their duties while ensuring that they, their family members and associated third parties did not benefit or appear to benefit from their decisions, influence or access to information.