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Through institutional and individual capacity-building activities, such as postgraduate courses, ad hoc

The meeting strongly welcomed the advances in results-based programming which should, nonetheless, be further strengthened and refined with a view

All versions of the SM type use a fusible alloy as a thermal element and cover a range of operating temperatures from 76°C to 187°C. Some types are especially environmentally-friendly, complying with the Directive on Waste Electrical and

By encouraging the elimination of this heavy metal, we hope to

Since then, similar recommendations have been issued by the Committee almost on a yearly basis, the latest being the request issued by the Committee to the Secretariat at its forty-eighth session, “to continue to make methodological

They raised concerns about several issues: the low number of country offices submitting audited financial statements; the decrease from the last biennium in the rate of implementation of internal audit recommendations; the level of cash

In this regard, the Committee takes the view that the performance management system, which is currently being

With regard to such reform, the Secretary-General has identified a range of measures to improve and tighten

The results: there has been an institutional and normative strengthening of procedures and mechanisms for the assessment of draft laws and regulations from a gender perspective; a methodological basis for such assessments has been created; the Constitution, a number of codes, laws and legislation are now subject to assessment from a gender perspective; the President’s national council on questions relating to women, the family and gender mainstreaming is now functioning; it has become the practice of the Parliament to receive an assessment of proposed legislation from a gender perspective; the use of gender-disaggregated statistics has grown; a system of national mechanisms has been set up to monitor and evaluate the status of women; and standardized gender indicators have been produced on the basis of the Beijing Platform for

With regard to the assessment of peacebuilding so far and the

The following elements of quality education were highlighted: focus on assistance in curricula review and revision, particularly the introduction of values education and ethical approaches, in accordance with national priorities and Arab needs; “learner-centred” education; improvement of teaching including capacity-building and teacher training; improvement in the status

Five principles should inform the review: (a) local women and national gender experts should be consulted, and their views reflected, in all planning processes; (b) the analysis of needs and priorities should be based on an appreciation of the differential impact of conflict on women and men and boys and girls, and of the potential for prevailing gender relations to affect efforts to rebuild effective and equitable institutions; (c) resource allocations should be based on projections of the gender implications of

WIPO, especially under its Strategic Goal I (balanced evolution of the international normative framework for IP), Strategic Goal III (facilitating the use of IP for development) Strategic Goal V (world reference source for IP information and analysis) and Strategic Goal VII (addressing IP in relation to global policy issues), can

The approach includes (a) defining current and future skill requirements to identify gaps and the actions required to address them; (b) enhancing the skills of managers and staff to improve performance 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

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