The mandates, resources, management support and access to decision making of focal points in line ministries should be enhanced and coordination between line ministries increased.

The project will be carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with other relevant line ministries.

The National Council for Women of Egypt, in collaboration with line ministries, developed methodologies for gender auditing in national budgets.

Bolivia, France and Uruguay established agreements and letters of intent among line ministries, local government, the private sector or NGOs.

She expressed appreciation for the joint efforts of the country office, line ministries and institutions in the preparation of the draft CPD.

Malaysia developed a prototype sex disaggregated database information system, which will be expanded in cooperation with line ministries and the Department of Statistics.

Several countries25 noted the important role that national machineries play in promoting, supporting and monitoring gender mainstreaming in line ministries and other bodies at national level.

In a number of responses, including those from Ecuador, Kenya and the Palestinian Authority, it was noted that line ministries had no dedicated budgets for gender mainstreaming.

The Women and Children Coordination Unit of Liberia established gender desk offices in 18 line ministries to coordinate efforts in planning and budgeting processes at the sectoral level.

The Ministry participated actively in consultations with key line ministries on the Afghan MDG targets and indicators to ensure that Afghan women's needs and priorities were taken into consideration.

The budget support has primarily served to strengthen the capacity of staff in the Ministry of Planning and Finance, line ministries and districts, particularly in the areas of planning and financial management.

It also helped some ministries to convince colleagues in the relevant ministries to expedite payment of contributions.

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Personnel policy at the ministries

(c) Continue to provide technical expertise and resources to the Ministry of Women's Affairs, line ministries and all governmental bodies in their efforts to mainstream gender and advance the situation of women and girls

The Ministry continued to support the Government's policy of advancing the role of women, including by providing assistance and guidance to line ministries in efforts to integrate gender perspectives into their work programmes and budgets.

Three new ministries have been established.

Efforts are under way to ensure that the national action plan for women is endorsed by the Government and integrated into the national development strategy, to be reflected in institutional budgets and implemented by line ministries.

The World Bank is preparing a multi donor planning and financial management capacity building project that will support technical assistance and training, both abroad and locally, for the Ministry of Planning and Finance and other line ministries.

Industry ministries oversee vertical swaths of firms.

Because the blue line is a better line. The red line is way downhill, the blue line is a good line.

In some countries they are both entrusted to Ministries, but in others regulatory functions are entrusted to agencies that are separate from Ministries.

Other churches may also have English speaking ministries.

The result is that both the government (except relevant sections of some line ministries) and UNDP country offices know relatively little about the regional programme, and reviews of performance are only undertaken between the project staff and RBAS headquarters.

That budget support will be conducted in conjunction with a multi donor grant funded programme to strengthen the capacity of staff in the Ministry of Planning and Finance, line ministries and districts, particularly in the areas of planning and financial management.

The Department for Equal Opportunities in the Slovak Republic, set up in 1999, carries out annual evaluations of the National Action Plan for Women and the Concept of Equal Opportunities Between Women and Men, in collaboration with other line ministries.

At present, there are 20 ministries, 6 ministry level agencies and 14 Government agencies (previously 17 ministries, 6 ministry level agencies and 25 Government agencies).

There is often a lack of synergy between policy (such as climate change policy) goals developed under environmental ministries and policies developed under other ministries.

Foreign ministries around the world should be equally nervous.

All ministries (except those under establishment) have language units.

It does not compete with other ministries, but ensures that specific ministries for example, the ministries for education, labour, health, social development, economy and finance include a youth dimension in their own development policies in the context of national, regional and local government.

(Indeed, all war ministries have become defense ministries, leaving one to wonder against whom a country must be defended if there are no longer any attackers.)

These activities are, in the majority of countries, covered by the ministries of agriculture and forestry and the ministries of economic relations, land planning and environment.

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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept line upon line, line upon line here a little, and there a little

Russia s foreign and defense ministries have both asserted primacy in the BMD dialogue with the US, but with competing perspectives and priorities. Russia s diplomats have generally, but not always, adopted a harder line, while Rogozin has been pushing his own BMD agenda.

Among its capacity building activities, UNICEF worked with the Ministries of Education and Health to address violence in schools, in line with the intent of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non violence for the children of the world.

Four other ministries went to pro revolution and Islamist figures.

His appointees effectively control most ministries and Iran s major cities.

Men and women in management positions in ministries and departments

Gender responsibility has, thus, been increased among ministries and agencies.

Alonso Martínez is a station on Line 4, Line 5 and Line 10 of the Madrid Metro.

Cuatro Caminos is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 6 of the Madrid Metro.

Water ministries are typically staffed with engineers and generalist civil servants.

The ministries have expressed their willingness to assist in the project.