Clearly, more work is needed to improve the quality of the numbers.

In order to expand and improve its operations, the Department needed to recruit new staff.

More positive measures were certainly needed to improve women's situation and provide substantive equality .

It notes however that further urgent action is needed to continue to improve the security situation.

Sustained efforts are also needed to improve the living conditions of the armed forces personnel.

Pragmatic steps to improve transit transport arrangements needed to involve all major players involved in transit trade.

Capacity buildingapacity building and transfer of technology and know how is needed to improve the situation.

The purpose of such efforts was to provide women with the resources they needed to improve their businesses.

To really improve the deteriorated system, it was estimated that an additional 400 million to 600 million was needed.

There is an immediate need to improve the capacity of national malaria vector control programmes to determine where and when DDT is needed and how much of it is needed.

That was why the international community needed to adopt specific and targeted measures to help improve the investment climate in this continent.

UNICEF continued its efforts to improve access to safe drinking water, but more efforts and resources were needed to fight the arsenic contamination.

The first step in reducing current reliance on DDT is to improve the capacity of local malaria vector control programmes to determine where and when DDT is needed and how much of it is needed.

Continuing efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of aid are also needed, with the full involvement of both donor and recipient countries.

Comprehensive people oriented early warning strategies were also needed in order to alert the risk population in time and improve their response capacity.

For this, laws and institutions that protect property rights, encourage openness, improve financial governance and strengthen capital markets are needed.

Clearly, more work is needed to improve the quality of the numbers. In the meantime, we should not give up on trying to create these bonds.

The international community needed to redouble its efforts to improve the status of children, and the United Nations had a pivotal role to play in that endeavour.

So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.

Several speakers expressed the view that developing countries needed to take greater responsibility for their own development, through continued efforts to improve governance at the national level.

As a result, the Council needed to improve its working methods, which, in the case of negotiating resolutions, would benefit from a revival of past practices.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) needed to be strengthened on the basis of the agreed package of measures, which would improve coordination, efficiency and funding.

Capacity building from a variety of perspectives is needed Strengthen participatory approaches Information and data need to be standardized Improve capacity to work with early warning systems (EWSs) and monitoring systems Improve institutional articulation and coordination Translate traditional knowledge into scientific understanding.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

She was convinced that by introducing electoral quotas, Gabon could significantly improve women's participation, especially now that it had ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention. If the situation of women and the country in general was to improve, women needed to be involved at all levels.

In June 2005, the Asian Football Confederation warned Thailand that it needed to improve its facilities before 2007, otherwise it would be dropped, possibly being replaced with Singapore.

While Lesotho has made tremendous progress in its efforts to provide the fundamental elements needed to improve livelihoods, young people face considerable development challenges, primarily due to the HIV AIDS pandemic.

Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.

Without information, the Council cannot assess what has been done so far in terms of implementation and what additional measures are needed to improve our common defences against terrorism.

For example, we need to improve our understanding of the patterns that characterize illicit trafficking activities in order for Member States to be provided with the information needed to effectively combat such activities.

While progress has been encouraging, greater efforts are still needed, including in countries with low prevalence, to establish baselines and improve understanding of the impact of HIV AIDS on children.

A greater dialogue among the members of the farming community is needed to improve the documentation of their position on the issue of climate change and also in order to exchange knowledge.

Given the reality that legislators needed the backing of their constituents to remain in Parliament, the draft legislation had been revised and watered down to improve its chances of being adopted in Parliament.

Steps also needed to be taken to improve accountability and provide the field offices with the financial and human resources they needed to carry out their activities to accelerate implementation of and compliance with internationally accepted standards and quality assurance and performance evaluation mechanisms and to evolve a fraud prevention strategy and a contingency policy.

The important changes which had taken place since the last triennial policy review, in 2001, had helped to improve coherence and efficiency in the United Nations operational system, but more needed to be done.

The B H legislative authorities should, within their competences, take care that all issues they consider also contain the gender component, and adopt needed measures to improve women's position in some areas.

An additional effort is nevertheless needed to ensure that the actual reform of the Security Council fully contributes to the collective action that we are taking together to improve the Organization within the current reform process.

They needed to improve access to education, health care and social protection, notably by giving higher priority to the financing of key social services, resisting strong pressure to decrease government spending in favour of the private sector.

To improve the quality of our aid, we must improve its coordination.

NEW YORK I have written previously about the Quantified Self movement individuals equipped with the tools (monitoring devices and software) needed to measure their own health and behavior (and, by doing so, to improve them).

The needs assessment had led the Dominican Republic to address pressing development issues such as the lack of capacity and human capital and helped his Government to identify the indicators and measures needed to improve the situation.

Enhanced and coordinated efforts are urgently needed to improve women's access to health services, particularly reproductive health services, and to support the Government in meeting its goal of reducing maternal mortality by 25 per cent by 2008.

Most responding States have built the political and strategic foundations for effective demand reduction strategies, although further action is needed to improve data collection and evaluation capacity in order to support the development of future interventions.

To improve health coverage.

He submitted that further research was needed on the appraisal of a quota system for people of African descent and the factors that tended to improve their representation in a free and competitive election process.