Pilot joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting

Joint procurement arrangements for the Headquarters organizations are now more common than in previous years.

These meetings resulted in broad agreement on joint promotional activities.

The Global Fund and the World Bank to complete piloting of joint financial management and procurement assessments, and joint programmatic and financial reporting by December 2005.

In particular, there was agreement on the identified need for greater efficiency and effectiveness in procurement.

In 2004 OHCHR undertook joint activities under its letter of agreement with UNAIDS.

1. Takes note of the agreement of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

The claimant served a notice of default under the joint venture agreement on the ground that the respondent was in breach of the agreement.

Several agencies have common manuals, and UNICEF is interested in working with those agencies to compile a joint procurement and procedures manual.

The text of the 1981 GATT Agreement on Government Procurement is available at http www.wto.org english docs_e legal_e tokyo_gpr_e.pdf.

Similar wording has been considered for inclusion in article 10 of Chapter XVIII (Government Procurement) of the draft FTAA agreement.

Some progress has been made, but more is needed for example, getting China to join the World Trade Organization s Government Procurement Agreement.

One of the achievements of the Working Group was the agreement to harmonize procurement related financial regulations and rules and contract documents.

As described above, the military component would actively participate in and support the following bodies established by the Ceasefire Agreement to assist in its implementation the Ceasefire Joint Military Committee, the Area Joint Military Committees and the joint military teams.

Agreement was reached on the over arching goal of the six party talks and a joint statement was issued.

Status of the proposed agreement between the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board and the Government of the Russian Federation

He welcomed the Cooperation Agreement concluded between UNIDO and UNDP and the launch of a number of joint pilot projects.

UNICEF agrees to initiate negotiations at the appropriate level to conclude a framework agreement on pharmaceutical procurement services with other relevant United Nations organizations.

It also welcomed the recommendations for greater joint procurement, post implementation benefit audits, efforts to ensure implementation of information security policies and improved ICT audits, costing and staff training.

The Executive Secretary, in agreement with the Department of Management, has taken over most of the responsibility for financial, procurement and personnel management of the secretariat.

(i) If referral to the Joint Disciplinary Committee is waived by mutual agreement of the staff member concerned and the Secretary General

a The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade withdrew from the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund as from 31 December 1998.

It had signed an agreement with Nigeria and had taken joint action with all neighbouring countries and with the Central African countries.

The Government of South Africa and the Government of Swaziland signed a Joint Bilateral Commission for Cooperation agreement on 20 December 2004.

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The Cooperation Agreement contains a clear description of the areas of UNIDO technical cooperation within which the two organizations envisioned developing joint programmes.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services was of the view that UNCC was responsible for conducting the procurement exercise and entering into an agreement with the consultant selected.

OHCHRB and the Human Rights Division (HRD) of ONUB have reinforced their coordination and cooperation through a cooperation agreement and a joint action plan.

As indicated above, UNIDO concluded a cooperation agreement with UNDP in September 2004 to develop joint technical cooperation programmes in the area of PSD.

A good example of joint decision making was the agreement between the Voisey Bay Nickel Company, the Innu Nation and the Labrador Inuit Association.

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The joint statement released by European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif referred to the agreement as a joint plan of action that sets out an approach toward reaching a long term comprehensive solution.

The Entity ministers of education have signed the Agreement on Development and Implementation of the Joint Strategy for Modernization of Primary and General Secondary Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, known under the name of the Jahorina Agreement .

In paragraph 270, the Board recommended that UNICEF initiate negotiations at the appropriate level to conclude a framework agreement on pharmaceutical procurement services with other relevant United Nations organizations.

ChevronTexaco recently negotiated an agreement with Nigeria and Sao Tome that includes a transparency clause requiring publication of company payments in the joint production zone.

The libraries have made groundbreaking progress in joint procurement of these costly resources by using the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium to negotiate subscriptions at a lower cost to the Organization.

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.