Advancing global initiatives that strengthen policy coherence, both nationally and internationally, is crucial.

Improving the coherence of trade policies and development initiatives remains a critical element in achieving the MDGs.

These initiatives have helped to promote greater coherence and coordination among various actors, but there are still visible gaps to be addressed.

Concerning joint programming, some speakers said that the initiatives seeking greater coherence and streamlining of operational activities would result in lower transaction costs for national counterparts.

To urge greater coordination among our Ministries of Foreign Ministers, Finance, Planning and Trade in order to promote greater coherence in our initiatives with the rest of the world.

System coherence

System wide coherence

System wide coherence

Participants recommended institutional mechanisms that promote coherence among local, national and regional frameworks that support local pro poor and pro environment initiatives and called for the creation of a World Environment Organization.

International donors are aligning themselves to strategic action, including around good donorship initiatives that reflect a strong commitment to harmonize and bring more policy coherence to their role as funders of the development system.

A. Coherence, effectiveness and relevance

Coherence, effectiveness and relevance of operational activities for development

International systemic coherence therefore assumed particular importance.

Consistent with objectives of the Monterrey Consensus at the regional level, there is a need for regional initiatives and cooperation to increase the coherence and consistency of monetary, financial and trading systems and to reduce the vulnerability in the event of financial crisis.

Goal 1 coherence, relevance and sustainability of UNIFEM products and services

Quantity, quality and coherence are our guiding principles.

The reform should improve coherence in the system.

Ensuring policy coherence is a major Government responsibility.

Scope and Coherence of the Land Degradation Activities in the GEF, paras.

Even the word neo liberal exaggerates the intellectual coherence of this counter force.

The objective is to achieve an improved coherence of the international development agenda.

The EU underscores its support for stronger United Nations wide coherence, starting with the implementation of the measures identified at the summit to promote coherence of policy, operational activities, humanitarian assistance and environmental activities.

It is about policy coherence, improved delivery and untying aid.

The Union has undertaken a political commitment to coherence in development.

(a) Given that non core funding has impacts on programme orientation and coherence, such an inter agency task force would allow for a systematic exchange of information and proper planning and allow, wherever possible, for joint démarches, especially in favour of joint initiatives in programme implementation in the field.

It is also of key importance that the report addresses the issue of system wide coherence.

The Peacebuilding Commission is required to perform the vital role of ensuring system wide coherence.

The responsibility for securing fundamental coherence had to be shared by donors, beneficiaries and secretariats the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed targets provided the conceptual framework for that coherence.

169. We support stronger system wide coherence by implementing the following measures

In the Roadmap, the need for greater coordination and coherence was recognized.

The secretariat seeks to optimize coherence and synergy between its information systems.

It must maintain some semblance of coherence for any campaign that should be established to succeed.

The Study Group agreed, however, that such clauses might sometimes erode the coherence of the treaty.

The system shows greater coherence, and its disparate elements now work better together.

Firstly, ensuring coherence between international policies and legislation was one of the main functions of the United Nations.

In this regard, strategic communications and coordination are crucial for the coherence and success of such efforts.

Review of United Nations initiatives

(c) Consideration of further initiatives.

Initiatives of the Palestinian Authority

The Philippines was also convinced that global economic policy making required increased multidimensional coherence.

Kenya praised the efforts by the United Nations system to improve coherence and coordination.

The growing strength and coherence of the opposition is not due to the number of disaffected Chávez supporters alone.

Hamilton turned America s financial wreckage of the 1780 s into prosperity and political coherence in the 1790 s.

For that, we need to improve the quantity, quality and effectiveness of aid, as well as policy coherence.

As well as entailing greater operational efficiency, coordination also meant increasing the coherence of development policies and priorities.