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tool to promote cultural heritage, and to undertake research on cultural industries in the various regions with a view to generating reliable and policyrelevant data.

as well as through measures to enhance social protection and social justice, while simultaneously addressing the challenges of increasing social disparity and income inequality.

and to create a network of private sector employers and interest groups to mediate information, experience and best practices on promoting gender equality.

through: support to monitoring and situation analysis; strengthening capacities in key institutions promoting children’s rights; advocating for pro-child and gender-sensitive policies, laws and budgets; enhancing partnerships for children; facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience; and promoting attention to disparities, exclusion and discrimination, where these remain major issues.

the Organization’s future needs, also affected by delays in the current recruitment processes of the Organization; the gender and geographical balance of staff; a regulatory framework in need of updating, including the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules and policies; the need for staff contracts to be aligned with the best practices within the UN Common System; and the need to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of human resources processes.

necessary, particularly when, with sufficient supervision and support, volunteers or community health workers can perform those tasks effectively.

markets requiring specific certifications impacting production practices); infrastructure and installed capacity (for example, sufficient airfreight, cold room facilities); and large enough consumption of a given material or product to develop a market for it and ensure availability, and others.

and meet the needs of a more complex and demanding work environment; (c) streamlining basic human resources processes through the use of technology, thereby releasing time for staff to focus on the valueadding activities noted above; (d) providing quality guidance to internal customers at all levels; and (e) exploring opportunities to devolve activities and reap the benefits of economies of scale.

range of services such as installation of earthquake detection systems in nearby seas in Japan, a survey on cable burial conditions and whale behavior using the autonomous underwater robot, AE2000, and the best route selection for submarine cable laying, in addition to the services using the cable ships.

control; nicotine addiction; cessation guidelines; assessing nicotine dependence; available, accessible, affordable, cost-effective cessation pharmacotherapy; setting a quit date; behavioural support; arranging follow-up support; identifying symptoms of nicotine withdrawal; cues that trigger urges to smoke; tobacco use compensation behaviour; basic relevant anatomy and physiology, particularly the areas of the brain involved in reward and dependence, the lungs, and the cardiovascular system; available methods of verifying self-reported abstinence; treatment endpoints, in particular seven-day point prevalence and continuous abstinence; maintaining abstinence, seeking advice on complex cases; and risk-benefit assessment of specific population groups.

the Ministry of Mines and Energy and to include individuals from, inter alia, customs, the police, the gendarmerie, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and civil society, as all these institutions should be playing a role in ensuring the creation of a Kimberley Process framework, as well as its effective implementation and continued development.

treaties and optional protocols on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and notably the application of the Istanbul Protocol.

for implementing international statistical standards by emphasizing the following areas: (a) economic statistics and the 2008 SNA; (b) demographic statistics and the 2010 round of the population census; and (c) policy-relevant data analysis.

as their sole focusa – all of the content for health staff providing cessation support as part of their role, plus cessation medications in clients with cardiovascular disease and other co-existing medical conditions, pregnant women, and users of mental health and addiction treatment services (especially for those with complex psychological disorders) effects of smoking on the metabolism of various medications; allowing and documenting steps in dependence assessment and treatment planning and collecting and collating data on the cessation service provided to allow the standard monitoring of clients and service effectiveness; using more than one effective behavioural support method; ongoing support for clients; and treating nicotine dependence.