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Funding for the humanitarian coordination system and common planning processes, including financing, has flattened and not kept pace with requirements.

[...] [...] new resources fails to keep up with demand.

While the sheer volume of waste does not constitute the problem, the inability of Governments and waste-disposal firms to keep up with waste is the core issue.

This increase in the poverty rate reflects such factors as the increased income of high-income individuals while social benefits fall short of growth trends in remuneration.

In some camps managed by UNHCR, over 80 per cent of all children under 10 years of age suffer from anaemia and are incapable of following UNHCR school programmes.

However, due to the LED lighting product technology of high-speed update, on the one hand, the cycle of product standards couldn't catch up with the speed of technology development, forming a lack of standard and lag phenomenon, in the restrict technological innovation achievement rapid diffusion at the same time, also causes the product quality supervision problem; On the other hand the formulation of standards revision process links, from the draft and the release of the implementation cycle is long, the part of the index and even face standard is behind The Times on the situation, the user to LED product quality lack of scientific evaluation basis, market competition, the product quality is the good and bad are intermingled, and have restricted the healthy development of the LED industry.

For purposes of comparison, it is interesting to note that while the number of United Nations peacekeepers is roughly the same as the number of soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) deployed in Afghanistan, the total expenditure for United Nations peacekeeping in the last two decades (under $50 billion) is reportedly less than the annual expenditure on ISAF.

At the 29 May 2009 meeting of the Standing Committee on the General Status and Operation of the Convention, the Director of the ISU informed the States Parties that voluntary contributions were no longer keeping pace with the costs of services demanded by the States Parties.

We have set targets, goals, parameters and developed countless campaigns and policies yet financial resources still lag behind these commitments and policies – and that points to a failure of political will – nationally and internationally.

You could be in the crossfire and get killed because you were outside at the wrong time.

Eduardo tells some little white lies to the nursery residents of Foster's, and now has to cover his tracks so they can't catch up to him.

But if it is able to manage this complex process, Myanmar has the possibility to finally realise its enormous economic potential, catching up with its neighbours while avoiding some of their mistakes.

It sits in the middle of a vibrant region and in integrating with it has the opportunity to catch-up to its neighbours, as well as learn from their successes and failures.

[...] [...] night, in order to comply with the closing times of Canadian airports, with the resulting increase in flight [...] [...]

[...] [...] reveal the height of impunity and hypocrisy by the occupying Power, which, as illustrated by the recent military order and other colonization practices, is clearly seeking to displace and expel more Palestinian civilians from their own homeland, [...] [...]

After 18 months of implementation, the main challenge remains the increase in the number of sites on the World Heritage List (46 in two years) with no parallel financial increase in the World Heritage Fund or in the Regular Programme.

Given the pace of technical development in the field, and the range of technical approaches that can be brought to bear, it would be excessively burdensome to maintain technical recommendations that keep pace with evolving guidelines from professional organizations that frame technical approaches and practical considerations, and define quality assurance standards or best practices.

In less than 30 years Brazil has turned itself from a food importer into one of the world’s greatest breadbaskets,” reported The Economist in August 2010, noting that it was the first country to have caught up with the traditional big five grain exporters – the US, Canada, Australia, Argentina and the EU.

GISTI, an association that defends the rights of foreign workers, points out, for example, that at Bondi on 26 September, at SaintDenis on 10 October, and at Bagnolet on 24 October 2007 and in other cities, the police carried out down raids on sites occupied by Roma (Bulgarian and Romanian nationals), loaded the occupants onto specially chartered buses, and gave them the choice between “prison” and immediate departure to their countries of origin “with return assistance”.

In the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Project Team, the Secretary-General is proposing to reinstate four IPSAS-related positions (2 P-4, 2 P-3) which were not continued in 2010/11, to support the change to IPSAS-compliant accounting and reporting on peacekeeping operations and meet the IPSAS implementation target date of 2014.

Examples of such programmes include those being provided by the Ministry of Education of the Sudan to help students in Darfur to catch up with their schooling and the Complementary Rapid Education for Primary School Programme for adolescents affected by the conflict in Sierra Leone, being provided by the Ministry of Education of Sierra Leone and UNICEF (see box 3).

But the CAC must take additional steps to keep pace with international developments by better managing its work so that it addresses high priority issues in a timely manner and that standards development work is completed within specified time frames.