The level and availability of funds to cover all NAPA projects The range of funding sources The possibility of access to other funds for NAPA projects (eg.

(a) Determination of opportunities for synergism among conventions, and the identification of specific areas and criteria for project development and assessment in which synergy would be appropriate.

Other obstacles include slow disbursement of funds, administrative procedures of implementing agencies and lack of staff, time and capacity of national teams to deal with all the NAPA steps.

(d) The synergy obtained from linkages with other relevant regional centres

There is room for more synergy between regional programmes.

Some participants said synergies between mitigation and adaptation are important, while others said that coordination rather than synergies were important.

The search for synergy between the Rio conventions advocated in the reports provides a monitoring and assessment framework.

Greater synergy between the Rio conventions is advocated with regard to the sustainable management of natural resources.

Promotion of synergy

OSS has disseminated and shared its conceptual document on synergy between the three Rio conventions.

Promotion of synergies

The paper also examines barriers to synergy among MEAs within the NAPA process, and possible action by the LEG to promote synergy in accordance with the COP mandate within the LEG terms of reference.

This priority area could provide an implementation framework for the synergy between desertification and climate change conventions.

This synergy provides a unique opportunity to strengthen understanding of how the management of risk related to disasters should be linked to water resources management.

Special attention will be paid to assessing the synergy between cluster development, business linkages and access by SMEs in developing countries to global value chains.

Ongoing activities and possible synergy

The social costs would be significant, he warns, as the synergies between deposit taking and lending would be lost.

The potential remains to develop greater synergy among interventions, in supervision, administration, messages and outreach.

OSS has put its efforts into facilitating synergy and consistency between the NAPs and the Long Term Ecological Monitoring Observatories Network (ROSELT OSS).

Liaison between the KP and the DDI was encouraged in order to optimize synergies.

Synergy with other environmental objectives

Noting the need to seek synergy in providing capacity building among Parties, the financial mechanism, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and the private sector,

The group also agreed that while it is preferable to hold LEG meetings in LDCs, a meeting need not necessarily be organized in an LDC Party if it is more appropriate and effective to conduct it elsewhere.

The workshop was organized under a memorandum of understanding signed by the secretariat and the Italian Ministry of the Environment on the strengthening of synergies among the three Rio conventions.

Build in mechanisms for developing more synergy between related regional programmes so as to optimize strategic impact of each and achieve overall results.

(b) Synergies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Synergy refers to benefit resulting from mutual interaction.

It is essential to continue enhancing synergies among partners, particularly among the members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and to improve cooperation and policy and programme coordination in and outside the forest sector.

There was a need for coordination and the creation of synergies between the three bodies in order to maximize the overall effectiveness of the mechanism and to strengthen accountability.

One of the underlying aims of the new structure is to break down barriers between work units and promote synergy, founded on clear accountabilities.

Lessons learned and possible synergy with ongoing activities

It was also viewed as a means to avoid duplication, reduce costs, maximize synergies among agencies and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of programmes.

This is important in the context of the increasing importance of demonstrating the synergies between the objectives of the other conventions such as biodiversity, climate change and persistent organic pollutants.

Through their Joint Liaison Group, the secretariats of the three Rio conventions are collaborating and coordinating their approaches in order to develop synergies between the conventions.

Cooperation with the secretariats of other conventions and promotion

Synergy is considered an important and strategic topic for the UNCCD.

Local level synergy workshops Two synergy workshops with a particular focus on the development of methodologies for the involvement of local level stakeholders in the creation of synergies were organized during the biennium 2004 2005, in Kazakhstan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Completed and ongoing work under the work programme of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group Promoting synergy among multilateral environmental agreements, and regional synergy Paragraph 9 (d) of the LEG terms of reference mandates the group to promote synergy among multilateral environmental agreements.

This programme will also include technology, so that synergy can be maximized.

The second track would be for ESCAP to bring together various subregional initiatives so as to exploit synergies between these initiatives and to ensure consistency with the global mandates.

These measures, which are consistent with several of the goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, illustrate the synergies existing between the mutually reinforcing development goals and actions recommended by the Programme of Action.

Regional programme managers and indeed even regional programme advisers at the Regional Bureau for Arab States headquarters appear to have very limited substantive, planned interaction thereby reducing the overall coherence and synergies between programmes.

Several proposals were made with a view to strengthening collaboration and cooperation and enhancing the work of the functional commissions.

Synergy within the Convention and other MEAs

(c) Collaboration among national ozone units (NOU) of Parties all over the world should be enhanced to enable importing countries to obtain information from exporting countries.