(ii) Develop criteria for allocations

Allocations from the state budget

The legislative criteria for financial allocations

(a) To increase budgetary allocations to education

Furthermore, to facilitate recovery among the poorest African countries afflicted by conflict, the World Bank employs special guidelines for exceptional International Development Association (IDA) post conflict allocations.

7. Requests the Agency to act as the recipient and trustee for the special allocations for grants and scholarships and to award them to qualified Palestine refugee candidates

While grants are expenditure items, allocations are advances.

The allocations for the third Replenishment were approximately

These budgetary allocations rose sharply, by 33.08 per cent.

They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.

Such support includes legislation, implementation mechanisms, social policies and budgetary allocations.

Currently several organizations have not made specific allocations for this factor.

Rich countries should therefore lend their allocations to the countries in need.

Even the special one time issuance of SDR s, agreed upon in 1997 to ensure that all Fund members receive an equitable share of cumulative SDR allocations, has still not been activated, owing to insurmountable opposition.

This also means that peace related programs should get priority in budget allocations.

In that regard, we should like to highlight the importance of peacekeeping operations considering how the United Nations could promote efforts related to DDR programmes and providing special allocations from peacekeeping operations budget for that purpose.

Massive budgetary allocations will be made (2 of GDP in the case of Kobe).

Direct allocations for field operations account for 90 per cent of the regular budget.

1.5 Resource mobilization and allocations support the implementation of gender equality plans and policies

Since 2002 allocations have been made from the state budget to promote women's cooperation.

Priorities, opportunities, budget allocations and responsibilities were not transparent and not communicated sufficiently in advance.

Furthermore at least 50 of all development allocations are now being provided to girls' schools.

6. Reiterates its previous appeals to all States, specialized agencies and non governmental organizations to continue and to augment the special allocations for grants and scholarships to Palestine refugees, in addition to their contributions to the regular budget of the Agency

However, it notes that the overall level of allocations to the social sector remains very low.

Indicators include the existence of appropriate institutional mechanisms, provision of sufficient human resources and budget allocations.

Other significant information on recent policies, programmes, budgetary allocations and activities regarding indigenous issues within UNITAR

Such initiatives aim to ensure that policy commitments on gender equality are aligned with resource allocations.

Thailand reported that budget allocations for gender training and development of tools and guidelines had increased.

The best solutions include sufficient increases in rich countries foreign aid allocations and more ambitious trade liberalization.

Peace related activities particularly reintegration and other reconciliation programs need to be given priority in budget allocations.

(b) Increase substantially State budgetary allocations in order to meet Millennium Development Goal 2 for indigenous children

The Committee welcomes the information that the scheduled budgetary allocations for education have been increased for 2004.

Amounts provided to the United Nations executing agencies are made in the form of allocations, not grants.

2.2 Policies, programmes and resource allocations of regional, national and local organizations are consistent with gender equality

The communications teams of the Department manage large allocations of satellite bandwidth for effective communications among missions.

12. Also underlines with concern the budgetary constraints placed on institutions and programmes which are given priority under the peace process, while special budgetary transfers have been made to the armed forces, exceeding both budgetary allocations and targets of the peace agreements

While these areas are important, their allocations should be reduced further to create space for growth enhancing investments.

One response is to point out that most plans already have a default option that determines savings allocations.

Since moving from allocations to full disbursement takes many months, the Consultative Committee will recommend adjustments if required.

Requested financial allocations were made from the 2004 Kosovo consolidated budget for recovery and reconstruction assistance (a priority).

Significant allocations were made to meet the needs of chronically and newly vulnerable Palestinians during the reporting period.

Extrabudgetary resources, an important supplement to regular budget allocations, should be scrutinized as carefully as the regular budget.

Decisions on budget priorities, donor resource allocations and United Nations activities are largely made at the country level.

More efforts are therefore required to increase budget allocations for training and mobilize extrabudgetary resources from all appropriate sources.

Since 2000, a growing number of countries have taken steps to develop a gender sensitive approach to budgetary allocations.