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The Group also met with the Core Group, MINUSTAH staff and the United Nations country team.

It is also envisaged that the Officer would be deployed with the UNCT, if the United Nations takes a decision in the future to move the UNCT to Mogadishu.

The Development Section would comprise the United Nations country team and the Office of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator.

The United Nations country team in Haiti talked of a pacte de gouvernabilité and a pacte de stabilité économique.

The United Nations country team is working with the Transitional Government of Haiti to prepare the groundwork for an eventual Poverty Reduction Strategy.

UNCT would not move to Mogadishu until the security situation was conducive to United Nations operations there.

The Regional Director said that the United Nations country team created a framework for monitoring and evaluation with indicators, but this was evolving.

In order to enhance ownership by other partners in the system, financial arrangements, including cost sharing, between the agencies participating in the United Nations country team could be envisaged for the country coordination plan itself.

Similarly, in performance assessments, the UNICEF Regional Directors have placed greater importance on contributions that UNICEF Representatives made to the work of the UNCT.

Accountability of the system would be greatly enhanced through a common assessment by all members of the United Nations country team of the performance of resident coordinators.

The country team in Cape Verde prepared the first ever common country programme document, which was approved by the Executive Boards of UNDP UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP in 2005.

The joint UN system Global Fund team will meet regularly to help address problems identified by country level stakeholders.

I am very grateful for the support provided by the United Nations country team for ensuring a substantively and logistically successful visit.

In general, it is the relevant United Nations country team, under the leadership of the humanitarian coordinator, which is best placed to identify the opportunities and constraints.

He commended the country team for its work, and highlighted the Government's effective cooperation with UNICEF in particular.

The United Nations country team also informed me that it has filed numerous compensation claims with the Israeli Supreme Court for the destruction of United Nations property.

It is proposed that, during the CCA stage carried out by the United Nations country team (UNCT), UNDP utilize an effective diagnostic tool to assist in identifying underlying absorptive capacity constraints, as well as aid management weaknesses, across the board.

The work of this integrated office would develop and consolidate further the continuing initiatives of the United Nations country team.

UNDG organizations should include in the performance appraisal system for the resident coordinator and United Nations country team an assessment of teamwork and horizontal cooperation.

The resident country team and the resident coordinator should make it a priority to ensure that all the capacities of the system were geared towards responding to country requirements.

Steps are being taken to strengthen the role of the United Nations country team, including the recruitment of a new Chief of the Resident Coordinator's Office and the identification of additional staff.

In this spirit, the Group has elaborated specific recommendations addressed to the Economic and Social Council, to MINUSTAH and the United Nations country team, to the Haitian authorities and to the donor community for consideration and action by the Council.

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For example, in the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan, the Programme has, in its work with the United Nations country team, stressed the massive influx of migration to Khartoum resulting from the conflict.

Delegations generally shared the view that, at the country level, the United Nations should be seen as operating as one team under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator.

Instead, consideration needed to be given to a coherent programming and monitoring framework and to the contribution of the United Nations country team in its entirety to the national poverty reduction strategy.

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Approved the two year extensions of the second country cooperation framework for Mexico and the country programme for Timor Leste

It is expected that the United Nations integrated office would provide the necessary training to national officers with a view to handing over the radio station to the United Nations country team and the Government of Sierra Leone by mid 2006.

Welcome the deployment of a Senior Human Rights Adviser to the United Nations Country Team in Suva to cover the Pacific Island States to assist in the strengthening of national human rights protection capacities

Finally, throughout the transition, MINUGUA worked closely with the country team to ensure continuity on key technical assistance projects, especially on land issues, citizen participation, public security and the justice sector.

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The UNDP country director would focus on managing and raising resources for the UNDP country programme.

She expressed appreciation for the joint efforts of the country office, line ministries and institutions in the preparation of the draft CPD.

At country level, UNICEF staff continue to be very active in UNCT theme groups.

(a) The review of the grade structure of field representatives should take into account their responsibilities and accountability with a view to facilitating cooperation among United Nations country team members and to ensure consistency across the United Nations system.

We note with interest that the architecture and plans for the operation of the new integrated office were based on close and extensive cooperation among relevant parties of the United Nations Secretariat and various United Nations agencies and organizations that constituted the country team.

The country team is also developing regional transition plans for each province to build confidence in the peace process by outlining the immediate actions envisaged by the international community at the regional level following the holding of elections.

United Nations country team fortnightly meetings, consisting of heads of agencies, chaired by the United Nations Resident Coordinator, who also serves as the Special Representative of the Secretary General, are frequently attended by senior officials of UNOTIL.