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The Executive Secretary informed the Commission about the steps the secretariat had initiated to strengthen the resultsoriented focus of its technical cooperation work, which included: (a) larger, longerterm and better aligned capacity development projects, with emphasis on improved performance through strengthened results-based management; (b) a resource mobilization strategy that provides a framework for a more proactive approach to partnerships and donor relations,

The Economic Community of Central African States may be a good forum for exchange

The following six high-level interactive thematic debates were organized as part of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries: (i) Enhancing productive capacities and the role of the

The section is also responsible for monitoring, management and reporting on the status of contributions and budget performance; and (iii) the Resource Mobilization Section is responsible for

Having examined 32 C/DR.18 (submitted by Kenya, supported by Eritrea, Malawi, Congo), concerning paragraph 02210, proposing to insert an item aiming to make reference to UNESCO Chairs and further requesting to allocate US $50,000 to the UNESCO Chair at Moi University in Kenya to undertake surveys of IT requirements and to generate US $19,950,000 in extrabudgetary funding to strengthen cooperative activities in the field of basic and applied sciences, the Commission recommends that the General Conference decide that the concerns expressed by this draft resolution are already addressed in paragraph 02210 of document 32 C/5 and that the financial aspects of this request should to the extent possible be accommodated within the work plans of the subprogramme “Capacity-building in the

Convinced also that a stable and transparent environment for national and international

The subprogramme is expected to achieve its objectives and accomplishments on the assumption that: (a) relevant stakeholders at the national and international levels continue to accord the necessary priority to statistics development; (b) national institutions are willing to pursue regional cooperation in a range of statistics

The report also presents a list of recommendations for the protection of children in

Another representative said that while he shared the concern of the proponents that the continued increase in HFCs could become a major concern for the environment, the difficulties in mobilizing funds at the

(c) Recommendations were presented for the protection of children in

The Agency informed the Working Group of the fund-raising challenges that it faces, which include the need to: (a) increase substantially the level of funds received from existing donors and expand the donor base that contributes to the Agency’s General Fund, as well as to projects and emergency appeals, including through partnerships with the private sector and foundations; (b) restore the financial health of the Agency by ensuring predictable and sustainable funding at appropriate levels; (c) re-establish an adequate working capital reserve; (d) communicate in a more strategic manner through the development of a stronger single corporate identity and the use

Recognizing that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness from world markets, and prohibitive transit costs and risks continue to impose serious constraints on the export

Many participants acknowledged that this software will be a useful tool for the

An analysis of women’s needs and the strengthening of their overall participation in peacebuilding processes will also facilitate clearer awareness of the causes of the conflict,

The Expert Group should make clear, feasible and practical recommendations on issues introduced in the resolution, including the components and elements for a comprehensive strategy or strategies that prevent a piecemeal approach to forest financing, improve the enabling environment, catalyse use of resources from all sources, consider the crosscutting nature of forest financing, promote resource realignment and enhance resource efficiency, promote coordination on forest financing at all levels, make national, regional and international actions mutually supportive, strengthen and improve access to forest financing, and mobilize adequate resources for the

(c) The Thai chiller programme with co-financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Mexican chiller project with co-funding from a local financing institution and the recently expanded chiller replacement demonstration programmes have generated experiences and lessons learned on how the Multilateral Fund has worked with other financing institutions (multilateral like GEF, bilateral like the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and local banks), how the funding schemes were put together, how they complemented each other in their mandates, what barriers were encountered and how they were overcome, how policy changes like the introduction of the Resource Allocation Framework in the GEF may have affected access to funding, and how the operating procedures and

The African Task Force on Food and Nutrition Development, the African Union Commission and its NEPAD programme, regional economic communities, UNICEF, WHO, FAO and WFP met in Addis Ababa in November 2009 to harmonize the implementation of the Africa Regional Nutrition Strategy (2005-2015) in order to address emerging nutrition issues such as increasing cases of hunger and famine and high food prices; developed a

The United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP), in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and several United Nations agencies, has committed over $62.8 million in funds to a number of development projects in Africa, including supplying measles vaccinations in order to reduce annual global measles deaths by 90 per cent by 2010; malaria prevention activities in

The G20 has also endorsed South-South cooperation strongly as an innovative tool to

Integrating a gender perspective in the design and work of the Peacebuilding Commission is a key element for the success of the Commission’s work, taking into

This included providing assistance to firms created after the July