2.2 Policies, programmes and resource allocations of regional, national and local organizations are consistent with gender equality

(ii) Develop criteria for allocations

Allocations from the state budget

Gender analysis of national budgets has also emerged as an important means of ensuring that resource allocations match policy commitments on gender mainstreaming.

The legislative criteria for financial allocations

The Committee is concerned that budgetary allocations are insufficient to respond to national and local priorities for the protection and promotion of children's rights.

African Governments have also committed themselves to increasing national budget allocations for agriculture to 10 per cent per annum over the next five years.

(a) To increase budgetary allocations to education

While grants are expenditure items, allocations are advances.

The allocations for the third Replenishment were approximately

These budgetary allocations rose sharply, by 33.08 per cent.

They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.

Such support includes legislation, implementation mechanisms, social policies and budgetary allocations.

Currently several organizations have not made specific allocations for this factor.

She wanted to know the extent to which budgetary allocations to that Ministry had been improved to ensure that the second national reproductive health plan for 2003 2008 was better implemented.

Rich countries should therefore lend their allocations to the countries in need.

This also means that peace related programs should get priority in budget allocations.

Such a framework would also ensure that the objectives of global forest policy are internalized by those member States that ratify the convention, with commitments into agreed targets, improved coordination on the national level through translating commitments to integrated national policies and budgetary allocations.

Massive budgetary allocations will be made (2 of GDP in the case of Kobe).

Direct allocations for field operations account for 90 per cent of the regular budget.

1.5 Resource mobilization and allocations support the implementation of gender equality plans and policies

Since 2002 allocations have been made from the state budget to promote women's cooperation.

Priorities, opportunities, budget allocations and responsibilities were not transparent and not communicated sufficiently in advance.

Furthermore at least 50 of all development allocations are now being provided to girls' schools.

However, it notes that the overall level of allocations to the social sector remains very low.

Indicators include the existence of appropriate institutional mechanisms, provision of sufficient human resources and budget allocations.

Other significant information on recent policies, programmes, budgetary allocations and activities regarding indigenous issues within UNITAR

Such initiatives aim to ensure that policy commitments on gender equality are aligned with resource allocations.

Thailand reported that budget allocations for gender training and development of tools and guidelines had increased.

The Committee, while appreciating the commitment of the State party in providing resources for social expenditure, remains concerned that budgetary allocations are insufficient to respond to national and local priorities for the promotion and protection of children's rights.

The best solutions include sufficient increases in rich countries foreign aid allocations and more ambitious trade liberalization.

Peace related activities particularly reintegration and other reconciliation programs need to be given priority in budget allocations.

(b) Increase substantially State budgetary allocations in order to meet Millennium Development Goal 2 for indigenous children

The Committee welcomes the information that the scheduled budgetary allocations for education have been increased for 2004.

Amounts provided to the United Nations executing agencies are made in the form of allocations, not grants.

The communications teams of the Department manage large allocations of satellite bandwidth for effective communications among missions.

While these areas are important, their allocations should be reduced further to create space for growth enhancing investments.

One response is to point out that most plans already have a default option that determines savings allocations.

Since moving from allocations to full disbursement takes many months, the Consultative Committee will recommend adjustments if required.

Requested financial allocations were made from the 2004 Kosovo consolidated budget for recovery and reconstruction assistance (a priority).

Significant allocations were made to meet the needs of chronically and newly vulnerable Palestinians during the reporting period.

Extrabudgetary resources, an important supplement to regular budget allocations, should be scrutinized as carefully as the regular budget.

Decisions on budget priorities, donor resource allocations and United Nations activities are largely made at the country level.

(a) Prioritizing budgetary allocations at the national and local levels in the context of decentralization to ensure implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children, in particular those belonging to economically disadvantaged groups, to the maximum extent of available resources

More efforts are therefore required to increase budget allocations for training and mobilize extrabudgetary resources from all appropriate sources.