For example, improving energy efficiency and material use efficiency has been undertaken in many sectors under cleaner production and environmental management initiatives.

Recognizing also the need to improve coordination and harmonization among the various United Nations initiatives established to assist the development of Africa,

It also requests the Division to report periodically on civil society initiatives in order to enhance the interaction between civil society and the Committee.

Many new UNHCR initiatives have been launched in recent years with a view to improving the Office's internal functioning and external response and performance.

The Service is the essential enabler of all automation and process improvement initiatives undertaken by the secretariat entities in Vienna, leading and contributing to the improvement of overall management support provided by the Division.

It will seek to improve the efficiency of operations and reinforce synergy among regional institutions by focusing on several initiatives, including training of trainers and the establishment of expertise sharing networks.

Policy Initiative

Quick win initiatives

Tricontinental initiatives

Partnership initiatives

A policy option to complement that role is building partnerships with local authorities, community based organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector, particularly small scale service providers, to scale up sanitation initiatives.

Initiatives of the Palestinian Authority

C. Initiatives of the civil society

The Conakry meeting agreed to further enhance coordination within the United Nations system in various areas, including youth employment initiatives, HIV AIDS prevention and cross border issues.

There have been other international initiatives.

Other initiatives in the field of health

Furthermore, when designing new initiatives, it was necessary to view poor people not as passive recipients of aid but as active players who possess the ability to improve their economic status within institutional and legal environments.

Of paramount importance are improving health services as well as developing regional initiatives to address the prevailing and rapid growth of HIV AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, avian flu, SARS and other communicable diseases.

(a) To promote a UNEP wide integrated approach to the implementation of the outcome of the international environmental governance process in enhancing delivery of the capacity building initiatives of UNEP

Through that Conference and other international forums, we will continue to take active initiatives in the promotion of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation out of a desire to contribute towards improving the security environment in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

It had also taken part in regional initiatives, including those of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the East Asia and Pacific region.

Specific initiatives in the fight against poverty

Investigative and Study Initiatives by the Government

Replace expected accomplishment (i) with the following (i) Increased awareness of and sensitivity to the plight of the urban poor, and enhanced cooperation and partnership in slum upgrading initiatives in line with the Millennium Development Goal 'cities without slums' .

Mr. Kamal Abu Qamar, Deputy Field Relief and Social Services Programme and Women's Officer

A year ago, it set five policy initiatives in motion

WFP made considerable resources available for several major initiatives.

Initiatives by the secretariat in the context of the internal review of activities

SDI Initiatives to Support UN Goals and Objectives

Initiatives of the Palestinian Authority 61 63 18

C. Initiatives of the civil society 64 69 18

Initiatives of the United Nations country team

Recent global economic trends called for major policy initiatives, for example for export diversification, investment in infrastructure and control of price volatility.

Besides taking proactive measures at home, Governments within the region are sponsoring regional cooperation initiatives aimed at stimulating economic growth and improving people's living standards.

Monitor target civil society initiatives, websites, and movements.

The Ministry of the Family has promoted a number of family education initiatives.

Private sector initiatives to meet corporate environmental goals and develop more environment friendly products as part of strategic marketing initiatives are also drivers of change.

The Russian Federation also supported the initiative of Japan to improve the work of the Committee, but it did not believe that achieving that objective should entail any modification in the format of the Committee's sessions or any limitation of delegations' right to submit proposals for its consideration.

The Provisional Institutions have not yet fully engaged in the initiatives for inter community dialogue needed to rebuild confidence and trust.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

In addition to a recent memorandum of understanding signed with the Great Lakes Initiative on AIDS (GLIA), UNHCR worked on developing similar initiatives in West Africa and in Central Africa with the aim of improving continuity of services for mobile populations.

For this reason, we support initiatives such as the Best of the Blogs awards.

But with initiatives like this we need help.

First Committees Chairs are taking initiatives to rationalize the agenda and resolutions.

(g) Developing initiatives for the political and economic empowerment of youth