Greater strategic focus for sustained results

Monetary policy itself has shifted to a far greater focus on inflation.

The European Union had also called for a greater focus on ICT.

Further synchronize capacity with expected output, with greater focus on vertical synchronization

We agree that the world needs to be steered towards a greater focus on those larger freedoms.

Most importantly, a greater focus on upkeep and restoration of the levees could have spared the city entirely.

Rallying greater support for the Millennium Development Goals, especially at the national level, remains a central focus for DPI.

UNHCR must play a mobilizing role in that area and focus greater attention on the necessity of resolving protracted refugee problems.

As requested by the Executive Board, greater focus is given in this report to major emergencies.

OIOS agrees, and suggests that correcting this deficiency could be the organizing principle for greater focus.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) is providing a basis for greater strategic focus in building alliances for girls' education.

On girls' education, a delegation said that there should be a greater shift from a project to a programme approach, and increased focus on capacity building and policy development.

Despite widespread calls for a greater focus on school security, some city private schools insist they have already taken appropriate action to protect their students.

Similarly, some focus areas of this plan are likely to receive relatively greater weight within UNICEF cooperation in LDCs or emergency affected countries (e.g., focus area 1), compared to others in middle to higher income countries (e.g., focus area 5).

Taxes on speculative activity might encourage banks to focus greater attention on performing their key societal role of providing credit.

A delegation said that there should be greater focus on abstinence, while others said that sexual and reproductive health should be more explicitly included in the MTSP.

In developing countries, shifting the focus of international investments from an exclusive focus on child survival to an integrated approach to early childhood health and development offers greater promise than addressing either domain alone.

New research by three Italian economists, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian does this, and, ultimately, provides a powerful economic case for a much greater focus on adaptation.

Monetary policy needs to look beyond its core focus on low and stable inflation and pay much greater attention to financial stability.

Proposals for greater country engagement by OHCHR should focus on national capacity building through the provision of technical assistance and advisory services.

With the border issue effectively controlled, there should be greater focus on trade and multilateral issues, where success could bring about a new and welcome chapter in bilateral ties.

There is increasing evidence that a greater focus on the household level increases the effectiveness of sectoral programmes, especially in the areas of sanitation, water quality and hygiene promotion.

But there has been an inadequate focus on the Syrian people s simple desire for genuine reform, greater personal freedom, and more economic opportunity.

Policymakers are increasingly shifting their focus to security and defence, often ignoring the needs of poor people, even as women confront greater challenges.

BEIJING The growing bloodshed in Iraq and Syria is being watched as keenly in China as anywhere else in the world. Indeed, the greater Middle East is becoming an ever greater focus of Chinese foreign policy.

The new strategy puts a greater focus on hygiene, water quality, emergency programming, interventions at the household level, capacity building at the intermediate level, the scaling up of national programmes and sustainability.

Recalling that the Commission was responsible for identifying the substantive items of the agenda of the congresses, he emphasized that there was a need for greater focus on the more technical discussions.

In the same year the Commission enlarged the program to a full European Mobility Week which now is the major focus of the Commission, with the Car Free Day part of a greater new mobility whole.

Officials there must focus not only on developing a pragmatic, realistic healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, but also on bringing about greater openness in China s media in order to spread life saving public information.

There should be a greater focus on adolescents and further emphasis on the provision of information to young people, youth participation, sexual education and peer education in the context of sexual and reproductive health.

More focus on innovation and creativity will be accompanied by strong real wage growth, provision of greater rights for urban migrants, and expansion of health care and pensions.

Critics now had a new focus.

This points to a need for moving beyond a traditional technology transfer mentality towards a greater focus on building the endogenous scientific and technical capacity of all nations and integrating these science and technology capacity building efforts into long term economic development programmes.

All you need to do is to take 10 minutes out a day to step back, to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

There have been many causes a decade of war in the greater Middle East, with its enormous cost in blood and treasure the financial and economic crisis high public debt reorientation toward internal problems and a new focus on Pacific affairs.

Indeed, given competition from low wage economies such as Bangladesh and Cambodia, Pakistan should abandon its focus on textiles altogether and expend much greater effort to develop its knowledge based industries.

Whereas the community focus should be on access to information, self monitoring, facilitation, and collective action, policymakers need greater flexibility, adaptiveness, and respect for the knowledge and potential of the populace.

Our official development assistance (ODA) programme has a focus on poverty elimination, with a core, but not exclusive, focus on the Pacific.

The Lisbon Treaty allows us to achieve a greater coherence and gives us a much greater capacity to act.

(a) The staff selection system introduced in the Secretariat in May 2002 has brought significant improvements, which include the delegation of selection decisions to executive heads, a focus on competencies, the reduction of processing time and greater career opportunities for staff through mobility.

Flourishing relationships also allow a dynamic balance between focus on the intimate relationships and focus on other social relationships.

Indeed, Western policy makers strong focus on persuading the Chinese authorities to permit greater appreciation of their currency is puzzling when one considers that Germany s current account surplus, as a share of GDP, is now much larger than China s.

On the contrary, it requires a special focus.

Focus

Regarding focus area 1, young child survival and development, greater attention was needed on child survival, with more guidance given to countries not among the 60 priority countries with high child mortality rates.