(c) Contribution to strategic direction to major reports on drugs and crime and to the review of the regional country strategic programme frameworks

National youth councils should be set up under appropriate direction.

Based on this strategic Direction, ministers and heads of ministerial agencies and governmental bodies, chairmen of people's committees of provinces and central level cities are actively developing and implementing their own agencies' strategic direction for sustainable development.

It chairs key committees to establish corporate development and policy direction and to determine strategic orientation.

At present, the Ministry of Planning and Investment is providing guidelines for the implementation of this strategic Direction.

The authors note that the strategic direction for Pakistan was set early by a narrow circle at the top of the Bush administration and has been largely focused on the war effort rather than on Pakistan s internal situation.

The US response to the so called Arab Spring, for example, has lacked political conviction, much less strategic direction.

That set the pace and direction of much of our work over the past few months.

To provide strategic direction to all components of the Programme, and to improve the performance and assure the accountability of the Organization.

Second, it lends itself much more effectively to long term strategic thinking about the overall direction of the national, or even the international, economy.

We look to the London conference in January 2006 to provide the necessary planning frameworks, benchmarks and strategic direction for the future rebuilding of Afghanistan.

Even the Pentagon s Defense Science Board admits this, reporting that America s strategic communication lacks Presidential direction, effective interagency coordination, optimal private sector partnerships, and adequate resources.

But, regardless of what Putin does, his personal influence and the strategic direction in which he has taken Russia will remain dominant for years to come.

At the same time, certain central level competence and coordination functions should be maintained to provide ongoing strategic direction, monitoring, training and coordination of external funding.

In its report, OIOS observed a weakness in strategic direction, coherent programme implementation and coordination, as well as inadequate management of change based on lessons learned.

The Framework will, in particular, be focused on strategic direction and appropriate implementation instruments for improving the planning, financing, management and coordination of statistical development activities.

If there is no direction at the strategic level, these bodies dealing with disarmament and non proliferation issues are bound to suffer from varying degrees of inaction.

Variations exist among the two tier systems, and the responsibilities of the supervisory board could in some countries include responsibilities for the strategic direction of the company.

UNIDO must take all those issues into account when developing its strategic long term vision, which should lay down the future direction of development policy while maintaining flexibility.

(a) Advising the Executive Secretary on overall strategic direction, priorities and policies in the areas of programme planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, technical cooperation and results based management

The EU S Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) is an excellent but modest start, and should be scaled up

Seven artillery guns were set up at strategic points around the island to protect it against potential military attack.

This has been particularly true of the IMF as it seeks to serve its global membership, and it has triggered a critically important discussion of the Fund s strategic direction.

Further analysis has subsequently been undertaken, and UNOPS has developed a set of strategic business development objectives for market positioning.

To accomplish this, some participants noted that there is a need to set clear overarching (strategic) objectives, functions and targets.

The States parties remain deeply concerned at strategic defence doctrines that set out rationales for the use of nuclear weapons.

In line with the constitutional objectives of UNIDO and the decisions of UNIDO's policy making organs, the Programme provides the overall strategic and policy direction for the activities of UNIDO.

Collaboration between the Bretton Woods institutions and the United Nations resident coordinators would avoid the duplication of efforts and provide a strategic direction for United Nations and national development objectives.

In order to enable the Parties concerned to make progress in that direction, the Bonn Declaration identified strategic areas of action for the implementation of the Convention to Combat Desertification.

In addition to improving the synergy and management of the branches, it would strengthen the effort to provide critical strategic direction to the work of the Office as a whole

The second dimension is strategic communication, which develops a set of simple themes, much as a political or advertising campaign does.

The objectives of the Strategic Approach will be achieved through the implementation activities set out in the Global Plan of Action.

Direction

The Swedish Government set up a commission of inquiry in February 2004 to evaluate the goals, direction, organization and effectiveness of the gender equality policy.

The Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001 2010 and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States also provide strategic direction.

The strategic plan is based on the Institute's founding mandate as set out by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly.

New direction

27.14 The Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information is responsible for the overall direction and strategic management of United Nations communications and public information, both at Headquarters and in the field.

He is also responsible for ensuring harmonious relations with the Government and donors on matters regarding international assistance, as well as the coherent overall strategic direction of the unified United Nations country team.

In our general statement we set out our continued support for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament and welcomed the reduction of strategic and non strategic nuclear weapons and their delivery systems since the end of the cold war.

But it is the incipient energy deal between Turkey and the KRG that is set to build the foundation for a real strategic alliance.

Strategic statements play an important role in signaling a country s direction and intentions to its adversaries, allies, citizens, and government agencies. When such statements require endless interpretation and explanation, their impact is weakened dramatically.

In summary, the main roles of the Trust are in setting the overall strategic direction of the BBC, including its priorities, and in exercising a general oversight of the work of the Executive Board.

Annual resource mobilization targets for each focus area will be set to encourage realistic global strategic planning for meeting the financial requirements of the MTSP.

But scattered moves in the right direction will not suffice. What is really needed is a change in vision and mentality a shift from viewing multilateralism as a tactic to embracing it as a strategic imperative.