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External sources (not reviewed)

counterparts as partners in promoting and delivering capacity development.

to adequate, nutritious food and clean water; the right to adequate housing; the right to a good standard of health; adequate access to sewerage and electricity; the right to marriage and family; the right to education; the right to work; the right to strike; the right to enjoy a pension; the right to take part in cultural life; and the right to enjoy property.

and technical support to strategic planning.

whilst encouraging more investment in new commercial database products and services, may at the same time greatly reduce the access of scientists and researchers in developing countries to the data they contain because they will often lack the financial means to pay for the necessary subscriptions.

building activities in developing countries, including regional workshops and STDF projects; encouraging co-hosting of Codex sessions; the use of mentoring mechanisms through intra-regional cooperation and exchange of experience, especially between Codex Contact Points; South-South cooperation; and timely distribution of documents in the official languages.

and contributing to the long-term sustainability of the response.

minority communities and NGOs to encourage the NCS parents’ participation in diversified Chinese activities together with their children to enhance their children’s exposure to and use of Chinese, summer bridging programmes specifically for the NCS students progressing to Primary 1 and Primary 4 to be expanded to allow the NCS parents to accompany their children to learn Chinese, an incentive grant scheme to be launched to enhance the professional competencies of Chinese Language teachers in teaching the NCS students with setting of appropriate targets for the NCS students’ acquisition of Chinese and a longitudinal study to be conducted to further evaluate the effectiveness of measures to support the NCS students’ learning of Chinese, with a view to improving the learning and teaching of the Chinese Language.

gender equality at all levels; (f) supporting the development of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

anti-corruption bodies and criminal justice institutions, to effectively prevent and control corruption in an integrated and coordinated way; (c) enhancing integrity, accountability and transparency in public and private sectors, including the management of public resources; (d) supporting relevant Government institutions in international cooperation and the recovery of assets at the domestic and international levels; (e) development of strategic and thematic partnerships with members of the international community and United Nations system to ensure coherency in the delivery of technical assistance; and (f) supporting the establishment of networks and platforms for policy dialogue and peer learning among Member States at the regional and international levels.

report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

(A/64/7/Add.15), which concerned the revised estimates under various sections of the proposed programme budget for 2010-2011 as well as the budget for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, she said that the Advisory Committee noted that phase I of the standardized access control project (PACT I) had been fully implemented at all locations except the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; in the Tribunal’s case, the project would be discontinued in view of the Tribunal’s impending closure.

developed countries in governance of the aid architecture.

awareness-raising and social networking.

opportunities for exchange among ministers and other delegates, and striking a balance between discussion of technical issues and programme and policy matters.

and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture, and for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their use, including through adequate and predictable funding.

for supervisors as well as staff, in order to ensure that programme managers take responsibility for identifying skills gaps and assessing the impact of training activities on the performance of their units.

violence and trafficking in persons, especially women and children by, inter alia, ensuring the full implementation of related laws and legislation, and also through the continued provision of adequate funding and the creation of a monitoring mechanism.

in Somalia and, through the established country-level task force, to support the Transitional Federal Government in the preparation of a time-bound action plan to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to conduct a dialogue with all other stakeholders, in accordance with Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004), 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009).

production practices, new incentives to reduce the price of imported alternatives and the correct identification of the specific pests or diseases affecting crops.