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Champions can also contribute by funding events that will highlight the importance of the campaign and recognize those Member States who have recently ratified.

Timely communication over problems and proper resolution will also help maintain the good results of the TNR work.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) served as the technical lead of the 15-entity Working Group.

Resources in the amount of $526,500 would provide for six months of services by someone leading the operations, 12 months of services by a data management expert and 12 months of services by a project manager.

Presentations were made by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Population Fund; Mr. Werner Obermeyer, Executive Director ad interim of the World Health Organization, New York Office; Dr. Julia Kim, the Cluster Leader for mainstreaming HIV and health into action on gender equality, poverty and broader Millennium Development Goals, within the United Nations Development Programme; Mr. Christopher Benn, Director of External Relations and Partnerships, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Ms. Mayra Buvinic, Sector Director of Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management at the World Bank; Ms. Diane Summers, senior specialist in public policy with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance); and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This concentration of effort has also enabled UNESCO to regain a degree of international “leadership” in these five fields, as is witnessed by, inter alia: the recognition (gradual and difficult, but real) of its role of general coordinator of the Education for All movement, after Dakar (April 2000); recognition, too, of its primary responsibility for the evaluation and monitoring of the state of water resources worldwide; its role as “lead agency” for all questions relating to bioethics within the United Nations system; its role of principal authority, in both normative and operational terms (in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere), with respect to the preservation of the cultural heritage; lastly, its role as the unique institution promoting dialogue, between government and civil society, in all matters relating to the defence of freedom of expression and the organization of knowledge societies.

In addition to providing technical advice related to socio-economic and policy matters, the researcher serves as Programme Leader, Research and Development, within CAPSA and as a de facto focal point for the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant ministries of the Government of Indonesia and Indonesian agricultural research centres.

The delegation also expressed concern that in some cases UNICEF staff members seemed unclear of their roles and responsibilities and recommended that the Executive Director take a leadership role in reminding staff members of their responsibilities as cluster leads.

Recognizing the need for UNESCO to strengthen its role as global leader in education, and with a view to accelerating progress towards the EFA goals and initiating preparations for 2015 and beyond, the internal consultation process identified key principles that will underlie the work of the Education Sector in the coming years.

The system provides guidance to practitioners, manages the improvement agenda for practice leads and links to practice knowledge-sharing systems.

With your permission, Mr. President, as co-lead with the United States of the Khartoum leg of the Security Council mission, I will now turn to the meetings the mission held there.

Paul has been training students to pass accountancy exams since 1995, and was Head of ACCA Courses in the UK until he moved to Singapore in 2010 with his family to become Head of ACCA Courses for London School of Business & Finance (LSBF) in Singapore.

The Steering Committee is jointly headed by two secretaries: the Ministry for Population and Environment and the Ministry for Industry, Commerce and Supplies.

(c) Leveraging innovation and technology for development: pro-poor entrepreneurship, innovation and technology – particularly for women and the next generation of leaders – and examination of the roles of business linkages and global value chains to support pro-poor measures.

As the Council expands its operations internationally, launches the Next Generation GMAT exam in June 2012, and seeks to expand the reach and impact of quality graduate management education globally, each of these leaders will be integral to our success and to the idea that business and management are critical to the economic and social well-being of people worldwide.

Similarly, in Germany, a six-module e-learning programme is about to be launched, which aims to educate target groups, such as team leaders and officials holding vulnerable positions, as well as staff at large.

After receiving the TNR application from the public, the next step is to contact the applicants one by one through e-mail or face-to-face meetings to give an overall introduction of the programme, including the TNR work requirements, all the kinds of help you can provide to them and the feedback required.

The Conference must take advantage of this positive momentum — which, as mentioned earlier, fortunately still characterizes the international area — to fully resume its role, which might even be a leadership role in the advancement of world peace and security.

A draft matrix of research activities conducted throughout the Asia-Pacific region was produced by the Programme Leader, Research and Development, of CAPSA, focusing on three main categories: (a) sustainable agriculture, (b) food security and (c) climate change.

ICCA members were also active leaders and partners in transforming the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction from concept to reality.

Filippo Veglio, Business Solutions Leader of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development pointed out that the business sector is part of the solution to development challenges.

Among the current duties is being one of the technical lead persons in implementation of article 76 of UNCLOS and has been involved in all the undertakings in the process of delineation of Kenya’s Continental shelf serving as a geologist and GIS specialist.

On Tuesdays, they would take part in a smaller but more extreme discussion group led by Ustad Darwo – who after being evicted from the Krapyak mosque was now holding meetings at his house.

Dr. John Lake and Dr. John Kersey, two distinguished physician leaders from the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS), visited Chongqing Medical University (CMU) in China as part of a scholarly exchange program of physicians between University of Minnesota and CMU sponsored in part through University of Minnesota International Medical Education and Research (IMER) program and University of Minnesota China Center.

As the second decade of the conflict in Somalia comes to a close, one realizes with sadness that the goal of achieving peace and security for the country has so far eluded us, in spite of the efforts carried out by the Somali people with the support of the international community.

In the process of outreach to street populations and to the communities of origin, contact was made with members of various indigenous peoples and urban settlements; through mapping and the collection of data and information, 15 indigenous urban groups, settlements and communities were identified with approximately 500 families and a total of 3,500 people.

Based on that position, the leader of El Batary camp informed the Tha’alba chief that his community neither had the rifle nor intended to pay the requesteddiya. 113.