Fortunately, the focus of the debate is on reserves and not resources.

Their focus is mainly on capacity building at individual (human resources) and institutional levels.

Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources.

Protecting water resources from contamination and excessive consumption will be a special area of focus.

The UNDP country director would focus on managing and raising resources for the UNDP country programme.

Other speakers suggested a stronger articulation of the links between the focus areas and resources distribution.

The question of the resources allocated to operational activities must remain the focus of the Committee's deliberations.

Some delegations urged that a larger proportion of regular resources should be allocated to this focus area.

So it makes sense for China to focus its scientific prowess on new technologies that use fewer resources.

What determines your resources? We've said decisions shape destiny, which is my focus here. If decisions shape destiny, what determines it is three decisions. What are you going to focus on?

The American Local History Network (ALHN) in the USA provides a focus for accessing independent genealogical and historical resources.

That multidisciplinary approach was proving effective, providing better focus for government resources and expanding the options for their application.

The GM has supported its demand side focus in part through the provision of catalytic resources from its own budget.

Further embedding and broadening of the principles of human resources management reform in the Secretariat continued to be the main focus.

Additional resources should be attracted through implementation of the strategic long term vision statement, with its strong focus on poverty alleviation.

The current focus was on advancement of the President's vision of human resources development through employment, income generation and poverty reduction.

Expenditures that support activities beyond the five focus areas are projected at 1 per cent of both regular resources and total expenditures.

For whatever reason lack of time, energy, resources, or strategic foresight they have failed to devote sufficient focus and attention to the matter.

It was determined earlier on that the Government Performance Project analysis would not focus on who did the best with the most resources .

A further important UNICEF focus will be on working with partners to identify and leverage additional resources for accelerating results and impact for children.

It is no secret that, despite broad agreement that Africa must remain a focus and a priority, both human and financial resources go elsewhere.

Recognizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for Global Environment Facility focal areas, including a focus on land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation,

Such international efforts are important for helping countries with scarce resources, especially developing countries, to focus their commitments and funding on attaining the agreed targets.

In this context, a key stipulation in Executive Board decision 95 23 on the utilization of TRAC 1.1.2 resources is its focus on capacity development.

However, TRAC 1.1.3 resources, in principle, focus on post conflict and crisis countries, the increasing number of which requires the full availability of this earmarking.

Canada's engagement in Afghanistan draws on resources and expertise from across the whole of our Government, with a particular focus on defence, diplomacy and development.

She called for a focus on new sectors, and she appealed for adequate resources to be devoted to work in the area of creative industries.

UNOPS must focus on markets where demand is clear, returns on portfolios cover costs, and it has the skills and resources to fulfill client expectations.

Building on this approach for allocating TRAC 1.1.2 resources, the proposed allocation criteria would focus to the greatest extent possible on making these resources available up front for integral capacity development programmes within the framework of country programmes.

Second, it can focus new resources in critical areas such as education, malaria, agriculture, and infrastructure, and ensure that most funding goes to well governed countries.

Such plans must be within the resources available to the centres and should include, as appropriate, a focus on least developed countries and developing island States.

The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter gatherers, but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally.

While the focus area on policy advocacy and partnerships will also seek significant other resources, its projected share of total programme assistance expenditure is 6 per cent.

Core resources now need to be significantly increased given the focus on implementation and accountability emerging from the 10 year review of the Beijing Platform for Action.

3. Invites the Regional Centre, taking into account the availability of financial resources, to focus its actions on the priorities identified in the recommendations of the Consultative Mechanism

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library will focus staff resources on accessibility of the unique United Nations documents collections to ensure that their unique content is put to best use.

Recently, in the international debate on the sustainable management of marine resources and the protection of marine ecosystems, there has been a strong focus on the high seas.

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Specific support will focus on community management of local water resources, including rainwater harvesting (for use by households and schools, and groundwater recharge), micro watershed management and operational research.

Several delegations pointed to the need to identify priorities for UNCTAD's work programme in order to focus UNCTAD's resources on those areas where they could have the greatest impact.

The independent evaluation led the COP to request the GM to focus mainly on its primary role of mobilizing financial resources rather than providing technical advice on project design.

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Fortunately, the focus of the debate is on reserves and not resources. Reserves are defined as the quantities of petroleum that are expected to be commercially recoverable from known fields.

One option was to defer important policy initiatives (in health care, energy, and the environment, including climate change) and focus political capital and fiscal resources on restoring growth and employment.