One involves crisis response.

The euro is the composite currency of an area with a poor growth record and an inadequate response to the economic crisis.

Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Adviser, tweeted the story of one such elderly who, thankfully, made it out alive

Anticipating a problem is always more effective in terms of time and cost than responding to a crisis, no matter how viable the response.

The EU's unique, joint civilian military approach must be further developed to make us yet more flexible.

I hope that the global outpouring of solidarity and generosity will become a model for the response to other ongoing or future humanitarian crises.

Clearly, the world s ever expanding network of currency swap arrangements is far from a reliable mechanism for responding to crisis. This is particularly problematic for the emerging economies, which are especially vulnerable now.

This response is part of the transmission mechanism for the Japanese government s policies.

10. Welcomes the adoption of new coordination mechanisms aimed at ensuring a coherent and effective response to the multifaceted humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Poverty, hunger and diseases still decimate countless communities, while our capacity to respond to humanitarian crises needs to be reassessed and revitalized.

This program enables Stop Hunger Now to respond to crises immediately by working with organizations already on the ground.

The way humanitarian crises are funded affects the ability of the United Nations to respond promptly, effectively and in a principled manner.

6. Invites the Member States, the Secretary General and the United Nations system to strengthen the capacities of regional and subregional organizations in the context of the response to complex humanitarian crises

It has not, even as the European Union continues to respond inadequately to its own slow moving solvency crises.

The Australian Government considers more effective coordination, in particular a stronger Humanitarian Coordinator system, essential to improving response. We are eager to hear more from OCHA on the progress of this work.

Currently, given the normalization of the situation in the Chechen Republic, the Office had taken the right decision by making the transition starting in 2006 from emergency response to development assistance mechanisms.

Anticipating a problem is always more effective in terms of time and cost than responding to a crisis, no matter how viable the response. Unfortunately, we usually fight existing diseases but neglect looking forward.

How to improve the management and auditing mechanism for responding to the national AIDS response (can the AIDS response be better coordinated across ministries?

An early warning system in the Philippines, for instance, mobilizes government agencies to react quickly to crises, while a special fund pays for emergency evacuations.

Equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council are universally supported by Member States, which advocate enhancing the organ's representativeness and improving its working methods for responding to crises that threaten world peace and security.

UNIFEM has worked within the United Nations system to advocate for a consistently applied policy which addresses violence against women in post conflict needs assessments and in crisis response situations.

In that respect, it is encouraging that the General Assembly decided last week to upgrade the current Central Emergency Revolving Fund to the Central Emergency Response Fund, so as to ensure swifter and more predictable responses to humanitarian emergencies.

As part of this programme, the United States and the European Union also committed to streamline and make the multilateral non proliferation, arms control, and disarmament machinery more responsive.

There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis prone globalized world.

By the usual standards of financial crises, three years is a long time.

The United States supports a stronger and more effective response in humanitarian crises.

There already exist three Government run women crisis centers in the country.

Many emerging markets are now at risk of a severe financial crisis.

UN Water will continue to facilitate the coordinated system wide response necessary for the implementation of activities in support of the Water for Life Decade, giving equal consideration to water and sanitation.

This plan recommends that rapid response teams should be formed in all parts of the Kingdom. Training workshops for these teams were held in northern, central and southern Jordan in 2003 and 2004. All the agencies involved in rapid response and on site action training at the national level are represented on the teams.

The Greed is good mentality is a regular feature of financial crises.

In recent years, we have invested heavily in enhancing capacity building in public health and in improving the emergency response mechanism, and we have made vigorous efforts to prevent and treat major infectious diseases.

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Some crisis prone countries such as Latvia are already unable to sell any more debt.

In cooperation with women's organizations, the State Ministry organized fund raising activities for women who had been victims of violence in conflict areas of Aceh and Maluku.

Japan has also taken steps to address the forgotten crises in Africa and will continue to focus on those issues.

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Disaster response

Responding to earthquakes

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The response has been overwhelming.

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The Pulitzer Center of Crisis Reporting has created a beautiful multimedia website called the Heroes of HIV in the Caribbean.

The Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, for its part, usually takes a risk averse, gradualist approach to crisis management.

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.