The Regional Director said that discussions with national counterparts to finalize the CPD had already started.

Begun in March 2002, the 30 million pound programme is managed by the British Council, together with national counterparts.

UNHCR and its partners worked with relevant counterparts to establish, reactivate and or strengthen national eligibility procedures and improve decision making.

The country had established a national anti terrorism centre, which was actively cooperating with its counterparts at the international and regional levels.

It also required that staff focus less on verification and reporting, and more on strengthening the skills of national counterparts to carry out these functions.

Concerning joint programming, some speakers said that the initiatives seeking greater coherence and streamlining of operational activities would result in lower transaction costs for national counterparts.

His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.

Even so, East Central Europeans, who are still recovering from the terrible political calamities caused by Europe s historical demons, find the intensity of their Western counterparts national egoism a bit frightening.

However, in 2004, the National Council of Higher Education (CONESUP), started the reorganization of all the degree granting schemes of the accredited universities in order to pair them with foreign counterparts.

(b) Ensuring the enhanced and systematic involvement of UNICEF in both PRSs and SWAps, in conjunction with national counterparts, the World Bank and United Nations partners, to influence strategic investment decisions

In that regard, we were happy to hear Mr. Guéhenno report that gender units in peacekeeping operations have been supporting the capacity development of national counterparts in Government and non governmental sectors.

They had also shared information with their counterparts in other countries.

Besides, three counterparts agree on salary levels Government, employer and union.

Yet today, universities in the United States easily outperform their European counterparts.

The mechanical counterparts of these properties are, respectively, mass, stiffness and damping.

Like its counterparts in other countries, it is a non governmental organization.

Local counterparts include the PFESP and the Palestinian Federation of Industries (PFI).

Particular reference was made to the effective contributions of the Southern African Regional Directors Team (RDT) in supporting coordination measures aimed at a reduction of transaction costs and undue demands placed on national counterparts.

As described more fully below, the transition strategy employed during the Mission's final two years involved sharing Mission know how with national counterparts to improve their capacity to promote peace accords implementation in the future.

Wherever they live, women face greater obstacles and frustrations than their male counterparts.

Bloggers and activists taking part in the meeting didn't forget their Palestinian counterparts.

Israeli judges, members of Parliament and company directors far outnumbered their Palestinian counterparts.

UNICEF has initiated measures in the sphere of capacity building with its counterparts.

They were worried about the EU s future certainly more so than their Western counterparts.

In some cases, ideas banks can be more humor oriented than their serious counterparts.

In theory, women have same access to health care services as their male counterparts.

Asked how programmes could be made more sustainable, the Regional Director said that UNICEF would continue to support capacity building of national counterparts, as exemplified by the secondment of a UNICEF education adviser to the Ministry of Education.

For poor regions, investment in equipment and training would have to come from wealthier counterparts.

In many cases, these cultures expanded at a later date than their Old World counterparts.

Quite frequently, women's formal education is neglected in favor of that of their male counterparts.

Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.

But Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya then consulted his counterparts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam.

In the US, the far right shares many of the characteristics of its populist European counterparts.

Such collaborative efforts among developing countries ultimately foster closer cooperation between them and their developed counterparts.

With fewer firm specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.

The Financial Intelligence Unit shares information with overseas counterparts, both directly and through law enforcement channels.

First, democratic States now outnumber their non democratic counterparts, establishing a significant precedent in world history.

In the following months, UNMISET civilian police advisers will continue to work closely with their counterparts in an effort to reduce incidents of misconduct and human rights abuses and eventually transform the national police into an impartial and professional police service.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock solid compared to their debt heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.

As a result, Chinese commercial banks can operate longer with a higher RRR than their counterparts elsewhere.

But Milosevic s Croatian and Bosniak counterparts, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, respectively, remained unindicted when they died.

In Warsaw, too, students were protesting, but their cause was not the same as their Western counterparts.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts.

She knows how similar those arguments are to the lines she hears daily from her male counterparts

This should embrace the units funded through the support account and their functional counterparts in the missions.