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External sources (not reviewed)

in reaching out to key constituencies.

focusing on cultural heritage preservation, conservation and management; cultural industries and the promotion of living cultures; cultural tourism and the identification and protection of intangible cultural heritage with a view to the adoption of a comprehensive strategy and concrete operations in this regard.

processes, including the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the World Programme of Action on Youth, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration as well as the commitments adopted at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in 2010 and the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS.

of gender equality, ensuring gender balance at all decision-making levels, introducing a gender perspective in the socio-economic sphere, focusing on gender aspects of health and health care, promoting gender equality in education and culture, reducing gender violence and raising public awareness of issues of gender equality.

Development Goals, the Doha Outcome Document on Financing for Development, the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, the outcome of the forthcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, in 2011, and Commission resolutions 62/1, 63/4, and 64/6 on achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCAP region, 64/7 on financing for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in the ESCAP region, 65/1 on implementation of the Bali Outcome Document in addressing the food, fuel and financial crises, and 65/4 on strengthening of the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops Development in Asia and the Pacific.

in 2013 for final approval and will feed into the preparation of the next biennial budget cycle.

session, with the two overarching goals of (a) ensuring that all countries in the region have the capability to provide an agreed basic range of population, economic, social and environmental statistics by 2020, and (b) creating a more adaptive and cost-effective information management environment for national statistical offices through stronger collaboration.

business plans and to ensure that financial and business planning was based firmly on the compliance needs of Article 5 countries, especially for 2011, the last year of the current replenishment period, while taking into account the total resources remaining for the current year and the potential resources available for the coming triennium, compared to the funding levels in the business plans submitted for approval.

the capacity of States in their counter-terrorism efforts.

field to ensure women’s full participation at all stages of the peace process, especially in the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements.

efficiently, and deliver its mandate effectively while continuing to observe the concept of neutrality of the Secretariat and upholding the rule of law in the rapidly evolving external environment.

the adoption of an extended Programme of Action to that end, and called upon the international community to support measures to improve African countries’ disaster response capacity.

the secretariat worked to implement its decisions.

Committee on strengthening accountability for high-quality programming and risk management.

from all forms of violence (A/HRC/13/46)

among involved entities, monitoring and reacting on IPSAS Board outputs, coordination of accounting diversity, considering that fully consistent interpretation and application of IPSAS among United Nations system organizations will not be achievable, and guidance and support related to revisions of IPSAS standards and their interpretation.

and accountable leadership to the organization as a whole, and enables managers to lead their staff to achieve agreed unit-specific results, while holding each other accountable for those results within the overall executive direction of UN-Women.

He thanked Member States and partners in civil society for their support and noted that under his leadership, strengthening partnerships would be an ongoing strategic priority.