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The Special Committee recognizes the importance of holistic and integrated rule of law assistance being provided to host countries from the very outset of the establishment of new peacekeeping missions and, in this regard, urges the Secretariat to implement measures to ensure that United Nations staff are made available to implement fully mandates related to the rule of law throughout the life of the mission, taking into account the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions 63/250 and 61/279.

The UNCTs and the Resident Coordinators are supported by the two Regional Directors Teams (RDTs) for Africa and UNDG, with a view to facilitating and enhancing system-wide coherence, coordination and integration of operational aspects at the country level.

This is, in effect, an integrated and substantive way in which the Council can review progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of those conferences and summits and their follow-up processes and assess its impact on the achievement of the goals and targets of the conferences and summits, as envisaged by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/16.

The Special Committee reiterates the need to ensure cooperation and coordination among all relevant United Nations actors, including through the Rule of Law Coordination and Resource Group, in order to ensure a holistic and coherent United Nations approach to the rule of law.

We call for integrated, comprehensive, multisectoral and genderresponsive approaches to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, which are based on strong coordination and cooperation across all sectors.

Finally, to put everything in place, in the light of the inputs put forward today by delegations, the Security Council may now consider the creation of a special ad hoc working group exclusively tasked with preparing — after open-ended, transparent and inclusive consultations and a thorough review of the history of United Nations peacekeeping and previous mandates — a working paper on general plans, programmes, activities and strategies, which may be in the form of rules and regulations, on the entry, transition and exit of peacekeeping operations.

We lend our support to an integrated, coherent United Nations approach to the challenges confronting Somalia, and welcome the Secretary-General’s intention to take further steps towards establishing an integrated United Nations presence in Somalia.

Working in an integrated manner, special attention will be given to the safety and security of peacekeepers in the field, and careful consideration will be given to gender and geographical balance in the staffing of peacekeeping operations.

The Friends of Human Security agreed to promote the human security approach — a human-centred and integrated approach — in addressing United Nations agendas including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), peacebuilding, climate change, humanitarian assistance and protection of women and children, among others.

Bearing this in mind, the IBSP may design regionspecific actions (“regional IBSP Webs”) as the basic integral elements, oriented to meet the expectations and needs of countries in the regions, avoiding a fragmentation of regional activity and helping to enhance the returns on investments made.

The evaluation of activities will need to assess whether this comprehensive approach, in particular when it involves questions relating to sustainable development, covers all the political, scientific and ethical issues relating to human responsibility for environmental change.

Renewing our commitment to integrated regional development which should be inclusive and equitable, taking into account the importance of ensuring favorable treatment for the small vulnerable economies and land-locked and island developing states.

Meeting the complex and evolving challenges of modern peacekeeping requires an integrated approach and greater coordination and, as appropriate and mandated, support within the United Nations system and with external peacekeeping partners, including international financial institutions and regional organizations, to enhance the ability of the international community to maintain peace and security.

resources is an issue of great importance, and thus we must follow a more integrated method to continue to examine and strengthen measures that aim to conserve marine biodiversity from the effects of climate change, whether caused by humans or occurring naturally.

We commit ourselves to taking the necessary steps to achieve all the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals, by 2015.

(d) The Mental Health Act, 2008, aims to protect the rights of persons with mental health conditions, for example by providing them access to health care and enabling them to participate in society with their full capacity.

We commit to strengthen the Economic and Social Council within its mandate under the Charter, as a principal organ in the integrated and coordinated follow-up of the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social, environmental and related fields, and recognize its key role in achieving a balanced integration of the three dimensions of sustainable development.

The United Nations system entities were of the view that the report could have commented on the coherence of United Nations support in that respect and how the United Nations system could promote national ownership of poverty reduction strategies.

The report reviews the mandates and activities of the existing coordinating bodies that play a role in supporting African development and, through its recommendations, propose measures to enhance coordination and coherence at the regional, subregional and country levels.

UNODC has developed such an integrated approach in its field missions and other programme activities.

Consequently, MINUSTAH should continue its essential work and take an integrated approach, together with other United Nations bodies in the field, by reinforcing its support to institutional consolidation and economic and social development.

[...] [...] those of the regional and subregional programmes, in order to achieve increased coordination and coherence.

We have leveraged resources for partners to ensure that responses to SRH&R and HIV/AIDS are integrated and linked to better meet the needs of poor, vulnerable and marginalized people and increase aid effectiveness.

Summit that there is a link between development and security, and we therefore need a comprehensive and integrated approach to meeting these challenges, in particular in the Sahel region, which suffers problems of such scope and origins that the international community is compelled to dedicate the resources — in particular, the financial resources — necessary to resolving them.

Given the ongoing reform processes and the numerous reviews and evaluations conducted with a view to enhancing the coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of United Nations system support at the country level,56 this JIU evaluation focuses on some selected issues which, in the Inspectors’ view, appear noteworthy.

Intersectoral work holds particular promise for UNESCO in the context of the United Nations reform where the capacity to approach an issue in an integrated manner can add value when pursuing the Organization’s global goals, commitments and principles, agreed at country level.

(c) In 2007: integrating environment, development and conflict prevention — European and national, Berlin (March); German presidency meeting — informal integrated product policy network, Berlin, (June); Approaches and challenges to vector-borne diseases: impact of climate change on vectors and rodent reservoirs, Berlin (September)