(a) Energy statistics experts from national statistical offices and or energy ministries authorities

delivery of the final document by the pilot ministries to the competent national authorities.

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

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.

Development of a national database for the monitoring of the phenomenon through data assembled from all Ministries.

The Habitat Agenda has been further refined into national plans of action coordinated by national steering committees housed in the focal ministries of member States.

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.

The ministries and national organisations produced a policy document entitled Privé Geweld Publieke Zaak (Private Violence a Public Matter).

All the ministries involved sit on the committee, as well as representatives from national services, public organisations and NGOs.

The workshop brought together key stakeholders working on the conventions at the national level, including relevant ministries, NGOs and local experts.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is working with various Government Ministries to set up a National Adolescents Reproductive Health Programme.

We also call on Member States to integrate a gender perspective into the work of all ministries at the national level.

Various ministries and other public and private institutions (national, state and municipal) jointly undertook a range of actions, such as those below

Bhutan has a Gross National Happiness Commission, chaired by the prime minister, which screens all new policy proposals put forward by government ministries.

By Presidential Decree of 1994, the government established a National Committee on HIV AIDS consisting of representatives of various ministries and government institutions.

The lines of authority between the new Euro diplomats and existing national foreign ministries are still unclear but the EEAS is, nonetheless, a fact.

At national level, the Office worked with governments and ministries the world over to strengthen their capacities to deliver protection and solutions for refugees.

How to improve the management and auditing mechanism for responding to the national AIDS response (can the AIDS response be better coordinated across ministries?

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

Image making in various ministries

Personnel policy at the ministries

More broadly based than the Interim Authority, the Transitional Administration launched the reform of key ministries and public administration at the national and local levels.

The Tanzania Aviation Authority also works closely with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence and National Service in clearing military and diplomatic flight operations.

Belize noted that the lack of human resources impeded its national machinery's ability to train focal points in other ministries and to provide follow up.

The catalytic role of national mechanisms for women, including ministries, gender equality commissions and committees and parliamentary bodies, in supporting gender mainstreaming should be strengthened.

Three new ministries have been established.

(c) The important catalytic role that these national machineries have played in assisting different ministries and agencies to address gender concerns in their policies and programmes

It provides technical assistance, equipment and material support. Nigerian government ministries and national and state agencies co fund many activities through cash and in kind support.

Mechanisms were often created at the senior Government level and sometimes involved several national ministries under the leading role of the authority concerned with family matters.

Many countries acknowledged that specialist technical resources, or staff with recognized gender expertise, were needed both within the national machinery and within sectoral ministries and institutions.

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 Committee is also concerned at the lack of coordination of the State party's activities at the level of ministries and between the national and local levels.

From 13 to 15 September 2004, the Office contributed to the national workshop on the Convention organized by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice of Indonesia.

Industry ministries oversee vertical swaths of firms.

This is compounded by lack of coordination in many countries between the national statistical office and the statistical units associated with various ministries (for example, health and education).

This committee reports directly to the National Development and Reform Commission, a government body overarching all ministries in charge of overall economic planning and coordination of sectoral development.

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.

Equally Gender Unities were created in certain ministries and provincial directorates, and their function is to liaise with national directorates and departments on several activities that advance gender issues.

Changing this will require massive investment in courts, judicial officials, police, prison systems, social ministries, and parliaments, as well as in national human rights institutions and other official monitoring bodies.

At the international level, Peru is making a strong commitment through the Ibero American Youth Organization, the only organization that brings together national youth ministries and agencies in Latin America.

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.

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.

Foreign ministries around the world should be equally nervous.