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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The challenge for the United Nations was to develop one consolidated, integrated and coordinated United Nations system response to the needs of developing countries, based on the comparative advantages of the partners in the United Nations country team and building on the normative capacity of the United Nations in general.

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.

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.

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.

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

Implementation of the UNAMSIL United Nations country team transition plan

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

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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

27 See the website of the Yemen country office of the United Nations Development Programme (http www.undp.org.ye education.htm).

The facilities that will be required by UNIOSIL are being prepared in close coordination with 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.

One of the prerequisites for an efficient and coordinated United Nations presence at the country level was a strong United Nations country team headed by a resident coordinator.

United Nations peacekeeping and peace building operations, humanitarian organizations and country presences of other United Nations agencies and organizations

In the field, there is to be one designated official for all United Nations civilian personnel, supported by one country security adviser.

Moreover, while we support the humanitarian coordinator system and an improved definition of that function within the United Nations country team, we wish also to stress the need to maintain the independence of humanitarian action in the framework of integrated United Nations missions.

61. Requests that, when raising funds, resident coordinators concentrate on raising funds for the whole of the United Nations at the country level

In 2002, the United Nations country team began working with the previous government on the editing of a National Report on the Millennium Development Goals with a view to undertaking broad national consultations for the production of a PRS.

In February 2004, the NI Unit provided a preliminary training course to the UNCT in Jordan concerning the Paris Principles.

The working group has agreed to conduct its work in complete transparency vis à vis the wider membership of the United Nations.

(c) Working Group on the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people.

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.

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

Also welcomes the placement by the Office of the High Commissioner of regional representatives in subregions and in regional commissions, in particular the placement of a senior human rights adviser with the United Nations Country Team in Fiji to cover the Pacific region as well as the deployment of a regional adviser for Central Asia

Also welcomes the placement by the Office of the High Commissioner of regional representatives in subregions and in regional commissions, in particular the placement of a senior human rights adviser with the United Nations Country Team in Fiji to cover the Pacific region as well as the deployment of a regional adviser for Central Asia

The Security Council's agreement on the above recommendations would enable UNOGBIS to step up its efforts, working closely with the United Nations country team, towards integrating development and peace and security agendas within a cohesive peacebuilding strategy.

6. Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, in his capacity as Chair of the United Nations Development Group, to assist countries graduating from the list of least developed countries by providing, if requested, the support of the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Country Team to the consultative mechanism