Current uses of space based services to support risk reduction and disaster management activities

Several national societies had initiated pilot activities which had demonstrated that local activities could make a practical contribution to eliminate risk reduction.

Urges UNDP and UNFPA to base their oversight and accountability activities on a corporate risk model and develop risk assessment functions in their audit offices

These strategies typically involve far more risk and sophistication than the activities of traditional commercial banks.

To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti regime activities.

There is a high risk of impulsively taking part in activities potentially harmful to self and others.

That restriction could be justified insofar as the State authorizing such activities should also assume the resulting risk.

Risk mitigation activities and reducing the hazardous conditions under which a threat can materialize are the next step.

So there is a structural failure in coping with complex private activities that risk leading to large societal damage.

The Contracting Parties shall agree to carry out environmental impact assessment of hazardous activities, and to implement risk reducing measures.

This provides a sturdy base for activities where precision is required or when the rider is at risk of being unseated.

The group took the view that the board should give appropriate disclosures and assurance regarding its risk management objectives, systems and activities.

In particular, it was agreed that the board should disclose existing provisions for identifying and managing the effects of risk bearing activities.

As well as responsibility for the operational policies and procedures, the Risk and Compliance Section provides overall control, such that pre settlement activities are managed and monitored and that risk, up to trade settlement, is controlled.

In Afghanistan, United Nations election activities were deliberately targeted throughout the lead up to the October 2004 elections, and are again at risk.

These include increased industrial development and other activities that could lead to higher levels of background air pollution and other health risk factors.

The present articles apply to activities not prohibited by international law which involve a risk of causing significant transboundary harm through their physical consequences.

If risk takers were allowed to face more serious losses, they would have fewer resources to fight political attempts to constrain their risky activities.

In Europe, a large number of activities in the field of NEO impact risk assessment has been initiated by academics, but few by institutions.

In regard to such risk factors as the number of sites operating in extreme circumstances, the nature of UNHCR activities, staff rotation and the number of temporary staff in over 100 countries, there was an inherent risk of fraud.

Activities aimed at raising the level of preparedness of local communities should take due account of local realities, indigenous coping mechanisms and perceptions of risk.

In Sudan, the peacekeeping mission's mine risk education activities were helping the local and displaced populations to avoid accidents as they returned to their homes.

Systemic issues and trends have emerged from the audited activities of UNHCR's higher risk operations (emergency or large and complex) where UNHCR's visibility is high.

These activities are focused in four key areas health and wellness and risk prevention parenting and family supports child development and community support and community building.

Further integrative measures will attenuate risk and emphasize badly needed investment in infrastructure development and the creation of opportunities for generation of economic activities, particularly employment.

Prior to the beginning of the peace negotiations, it was virtually impossible to engage in mine surveys, clearing, capacity development or even mine risk education activities.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Ideally from their point of view they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk taking activities will be imposed.

And, clearly, the idea that capital requirements were not needed for banks off balance sheet activities (because the banks were not bearing the risk), was simply wrong.

Permits are required for those facilities whose activities exceed certain annual thresholds, based on the risk associated with the given Schedule for transparency and non proliferation purposes.

The types of activities that receive funding under the programme include community night patrols, programmes for youths at risk, offender post release support and prisoner support initiatives.

Those activities by the military component were intended to support local communities in order to foster good relationships and consequently to minimize the risk of hostile acts.

For some of the larger operations in hardship areas, key positions were not filled, sometimes for extended periods, resulting in insufficient attention to important high risk activities.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

In particular, they risk cutting a country off from the main flows of credit, investment, and commerce that is, all of the activities that generate economic opportunity and prosperity.

LONDON News media are constantly reporting ways that everyday activities can damage our health. But perhaps the most far reaching yet neglected global health risk stems from gender norms.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

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(h) Security management. Participants should adopt a comprehensive approach to security management based on risk assessment that is dynamic, encompassing all levels of participants' activities and all aspects of their operations

Such measures aim to reduce the risk of conflict by increasing trust among participating OSCE states, and by contributing to greater transparency in the field of military planning and other activities.

However, as the activities of the Kyoto Protocol commence, and have impacts in countries other than the host country of the secretariat, the risk of third party claims will inevitably increase.

And while there is moral hazard risk, there is also meltdown risk.

The representative of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) outlined its primary activities, which included the provision of guarantees (risk mitigation products) and reducing transaction costs associated with FDI site selection decisions.