Several experts noted that in many countries there is a lack of coherence between FDI policies and science and technology policies.

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

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

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

However, domestic capital market development requires wide ranging reform and achieving coherence between the policies is not easy.

In line with the emphasis provided by the Monterrey Consensus, achieving coherence and consistency between policies is a central focus of the study.

The major institutional stakeholders agreed to facilitate the Monterrey Consensus through increased coherence, coordination and cooperation in the implementation of international development policies.

Secondly, country ownership, enhanced by the mobilization of all domestic resources and close cooperation and coherence of policies among development partners, is of crucial importance.

Successful implementation of summit outcomes required policy coherence and consistency, as inconsistencies between economic, financial and social policies were key obstacles to objectives being met.

Addressing the question of coherence between the various policies, the observance of policy space, and strengthening the role of UNCTAD would help to deliver such an environment.

Coherence and consistency of relevant policies, laws and regulations need to be improved so as to remove some of the barriers to the implementation of climate change strategies.

System coherence

In this sense, France is paying the price for the lack of continuity, coherence, and appropriate funding given to social development policies over the past 30 years.

Any such reform would need to give priority to ensuring coherence in the macroeconomic policies of the major players, in both the developed and the developing worlds.

22. Calls upon the international community, relevant multilateral institutions and developed countries to enhance coherence in their trade, investment and aid policies towards African countries

System wide coherence

System wide coherence

There was a need for an appropriate balance between commitments and flexibility for development policies, and, related to this, a need to ensure coherence in governance.

22. Reiterates the need for the international community, relevant multilateral institutions and developed countries to enhance coherence in their trade, investment, aid and debt policies towards African countries

A. Coherence, effectiveness and relevance

We therefore call for renewed international attention to the need for coherence in development, trade and finance policies to avert the erosion of development gains and the aggravation of poverty in developing countries.

For starters, the coherence of Europe s policies toward Russia improved the EU threatened to use the World Trade Organization s dispute settlement mechanism when the Kremlin announced new protectionist measures in late 2012.

First, it should ensure system wide coherence, including with the Bretton Woods institutions and the WTO, in respect to the policies and operational activities which impact the achievement of the agreed development goals.

Coherence, effectiveness and relevance of operational activities for development

Efforts are still being made to achieve coherence in formulating annual plans and implementing policies, in other words, to bring together the different crosscutting themes, including gender, in a coherent manner.

4. Calls upon all countries, in particular the major developed economies, to enhance coherence among their financial, investment, trade and development cooperation policies, with a view to enhancing the development prospects of developing countries

While coherence between national economic policies and international economic processes was essential, it was equally important for the development prescriptions of the international financial, monetary and trade institutions to be coherent with each other.

The main theme of UNCTAD XI was the interface and coherence between international processes and negotiations on the one hand and the development strategies and policies that developing countries need to pursue on the other .

International systemic coherence therefore assumed particular importance.

Spatial justice stands as a unifying concept for the social sciences its coherence stems from a reflection on the modalities of the political decision making and on the policies implemented in order to improve spatial distributions.

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.

Finally, because of its location at the junction between the domestic and the international economic environment, UNCTAD assistance is directly instrumental in achieving MDG 8, which specifically concerns the coherence between national development policies and international processes.

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

In addition, the need for coherence of aid and trade policies was underlined in order to ensure that official development assistance, trade and debt relief, when taken together, would lead to a net result that was positive for development.

To call for greater coordination among international institutions and agencies particularly those dealing with development, finance, monetary and trade issues to promote greater coherence in their policies with a view to making them more development oriented.

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.

There must be coherence between national development strategies and global economic processes, and the developing countries must have the policy space which they needed if they were to pursue development policies in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world economy.

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