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He pledged to work closely with the Commission with a view to further improving the situation on the ground.

[...] [...] progress in implementing the recommendations contained therein in order to demonstrate improved delivery on the ground.

In that context, and as members will have noted in the letter of the Secretary-General dated 3 March 2009 addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2009/128), the United Nations intends to review its presence on the ground in order to provide more consistent and better coordinated support for the implementation of the dialogue’s recommendations.

[...] [...] progress has been achieved over the past weeks [...] [...]

Malaysia appreciated the opportunity through UPR for delegations to engage in peaceful, constructive and non-confrontational dialogue to better understand, assess and ultimately effect tangible improvements to the human rights situation on the ground.

Furthermore, as a first practical step towards a [...] [...]

The report is not exhaustive of UNICEF activities; it contains a range of practices and case studies pertaining to the Fund’s interventions in the field, particularly as they relate to the ways in which the agency is responding to the recommendations of the Permanent Forum.

The Committee urges the State party to assign more staff to, and include more women in, the police forces responsible for security at camps for refugees and internally displaced persons.

[...] [...] picture of the reality on the ground in [...]

While in most cases they have an equal effect on other field-based and humanitarian agencies, UNHCR is particularly sensitive to measures that curtail its ability to reach its populations of concern or gain the acceptance of local communities.

These changes helped position UNV to focus more effectively on programmatic needs at country level and increase the impact of its volunteers in the field, while ensuring proper allocation and management of its resources.

[...] detached from reality in the region and therefore failed to accurately address the real issues on [...]

Field studies in a boreal forest in Hyytiälä, Finland and laboratory experiments reveal how atmospheric [...] [...]

[...] [...] way that the entity with overall control, not [...] [...]

[...] [...] and subsequent follow-up during the field stage.

[...] [...] limitations for more extensive field visits.

The Culture Sector drew up a global post-conflict intervention strategy, thus demonstrating the relevance of UNESCO’s action in the field to the encouragement of both renewed cultural and economic development in the countries affected and the promotion of dialogue and reconciliation among all stakeholders.

Since the midterm report, the Group has conducted a comprehensive field investigation of the country to assess the progress of fiscal reunification and the curbing of illegal “parallel” taxation.

The audit was carried out through visits to field offices in the Gaza Strip, the Syrian Arab Republic, Jordan, and UNRWA Gaza headquarters, as well as a review of the financial transactions and operations at headquarters in Amman.

(ii) The continuation of cost-reducing measures that have been in practice since 2008, which include using economy class air travel for all missions, using excursion air tickets with fixed departure/return dates if possible, shortening the duration of, and assigning less staff to, field study trips of TMA-based courses and reducing telephone costs by utilizing email communications.

[...] [...] enabling him to verify with the Executive Committee [...] [...]

Therefore, in order to ensure the faithful representation of the views received from States, section II of the present report contains a compilation of the unaltered views as submitted by the following States: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania (on behalf of the League of Arab States), Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago (on behalf of the Caribbean Community), Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Zambia, the Holy See and the European Union.

Regular monitoring and support missions from the capital to the field level is needed, especially with regard to ensuring the level and quality of assistance, the timely transfer of funds, and the efficiency of project closures and verification.

OHCHR acknowledged that there was potential to institutionalize the linkages with the field through the existing field presences including informal information-sharing meetings to ensure coordinated approaches with other United Nations agencies and the UNCTs.

While we share the scepticism expressed by various members of the Council regarding the commitment of the Government of Syria to complying with all six points in the Special Envoy’s proposal — points that the Government has committed to — we believe that the best course of action is to give the Government and the members of the opposition the benefit of the doubt, and to trust that the presence of United Nations observers on the ground will make a genuine difference to the capacity of the United Nations and the League of Arab States to help find a way out of this crisis.

The Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director stated that the report on the regional architecture follows the direction that the Executive Board set out in the strategic plan and the approved institutional budget for the biennium 2012-2013 (see UNW/2011/13, decision 2011/5) to strengthen capacity of the Entity on the ground, not only to achieve results at the country level, but also to ensure better linkages between the normative and operational aspects of the mandate of UN-Women.

Extensive interviews were also conducted in Bangkok, Canberra, The Hague, Jakarta, New York, Phnom Penh, and Singapore.

The spirit of the language in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation seems overly positive, in comparison to the on-the-ground reality of mining activities in both developing and developed countries.