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Besides which, it would be rather cumbersome because of the variety of cultural goods and services (or even educational, scientific and cultural services) which would have to be included.

Such measures could range from ICT-enabled early warning to emergency communications.

[...] variety of needs across the organisation, [...] [...]

This would greatly increase the productivity of the legal officers, as they would be relieved of multifarious administrative and secretarial burdens (see also A/65/304, paras. 66 and 71).

The multifaceted nature of violence against women necessitates different strategies to respond to the diverse manifestations of violence and the various settings in which it occurs, both in private and public life, whether committed in the home, the workplace, educational and training institutions, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict or natural disaster.

of the various and varied complex destabilizing factors in the energy market and appreciated the efforts of NAM countries to stabilize it for the benefit of all.

Based on the findings of the study, the Institute recommended a strategy to eliminate disparities that would include cross-cultural education and training; policy and regulatory changes to address the fragmentation of health plans along socio-economic lines; healthsystem interventions to promote the use of clinical-practice guidelines; language and cultural interpretation where needed; and the collection of further data to refine the understanding of the problem.

But the determinants of effective technology transfer are many and various.

The diverse constituencies served by the Office and the various internal communication tools used by the Secretariat, funds and programmes and UNHCR make it challenging and time-consuming to reach out to staff in a symbiotic manner.

Threats to peace and security in Africa [...]

In addition, various definitions of sustainable forest management, different interpretations of that concept and a lack of consensus among countries and organizations to agree on a specific definition would diminish countries’ ability to have a full comparison of what has been done for forests and what else should be done.

In practice, rates lower than the standard rate are frequently negotiated by some donors, and many waivers, submitted to the Director-General as required under UNESCO’s financial rules and regulations, are granted.21 A wide variety of reasons, such as project urgency, potential economies of scale of multi-year programmes, prior practice of UNICEF (or other organizations of the United Nations system), the donor’s origin, rates usually charged for some United Nations joint programmes, is given as justification for such waivers.

It was also time to put an end to the diversity of contractual arrangements for staff members with the same background and duties and, as the Organization prepared to embark on an ambitious technology project, to review the posts of staff members with highly technical functions in order to recruit and retain the best staff in a competitive market.

There is great variety in the structure, scope, content, quality, degree of detail, use of terminology and context in the available ERM documents in the United Nations system.

The McKinsey evaluation concluded that while the Global Compact had established itself as an important voice in the corporate citizenships chorus, and was well placed to provide meaningful impetus for corporate change due to its solid roster of participants and dynamic local networks, inconsistent participation and divergent and unfulfilled expectations eroded its impact and threatened its credibility.

Such fragmentation of frameworks and proliferation of results and indicators have resulted in increased transaction costs for organizations, weakened strategic focus and added complexity in managing for results.