It also relegated other important topics to a lower level of priority.

Counter terrorism was a priority area of work for Kazakhstan at the national level.

A cascading priority of tasks in this area, i.e. giving the highest priority to the compilation of indices of the higher level aggregates, should be applied.

Transparent planning and priority setting should also take place at the local level.

On the international level, development remained the highest priority for a large majority of Member States.

These priority areas are central to the reports before the fourteenth session of the High level Committee.

At the national level, the Chinese Government regarded the issue of human settlements as a top priority.

At the national level, limited financial resources were allocated to infrastructure development as a matter of priority to stimulate economic growth.

Defining and coordinating national level and workplace level actions to implement sustainable development has been a top priority for trade unions since the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

A major finding is that, regardless of the level or speed of urbanization, planning for land use management should be the top priority.

(d) Review whether the present level of funding for training and the results were consistent with the priority placed on staff development

At the international level, we must urge Africa's development partners to be diligent in disbursing funds for the implementation of NEPAD priority projects.

The list would give priority to high level representatives, and should be regularly shared with the Committee so as to increase transparency.

This would enable UNDP, on an exceptional and priority basis, to increase the resource level in one region with a corresponding decrease in another, up to the proposed 10 per cent limitation level.

The Division will also directly promote and facilitate the implementation of the Policy Package at the field level, in particular with regard to its priority countries.

The need to maintain the same level of appropriations should be justified, the priority and effectiveness of programmes reconfirmed, and a thorough analysis made of the actual resource requirements.

Insufficiently clear targets for child protection continue to pose the challenge of ensuring that this priority area is appropriately considered in macro level plans, including in PRSs.

The inventory of central and municipal level legislation relating to property rights is not finalized, blocking progress in drafting a strategic legislative assessment and action plan (a priority).

The recent increase in the number of female legislators has provided women an avenue at the highest political level to have a voice in decision making and priority setting.

But in the developing world, immediate economic needs often override long term imperatives, and protecting a fragile environment is rarely a priority at the national level.

The strategic priority of the Statistics Division for the biennium 2006 2007 is the strengthening of international coordination on the production of socio economic statistics at the country, regional and global level.

Education for indigenous peoples would seem to be the ugly duckling of national education programmes and in general to be assigned low priority and inadequate budgets at the national level.

Support to mobile pastoralism in the drylands should receive a higher level of priority under the UNCCD given pastoralists specific adaptive management practices and traditional knowledge of coping strategies in drylands conditions.

The law should have a complete set of priority rules covering all possible priority conflicts.

Training at the local level in leadership, organization, hygiene and other issues regarding preserving the safety of water supplies should be a priority when bringing water delivery systems to the people.

Papers were invited in four priority research areas gender and remittances gender and ICT gender and security sector reform and gender and political participation at the local level.

Priority countries

Priority setting

Through regional action programmes (RAPs), the African, Asian and Latin American and Caribbean affected country Parties identify the priority thematic areas for coordination and cooperation at the regional level.

(a) Identification of priority information needs.

Rule of law priority standards challenges

Freedom of movement priority standards challenges

The memorandum of understanding between UNEP and UNDP should be implemented as a matter of priority, and the capacity of UNEP to support and provide technical advice to Governments at the national level should be enhanced.

The Government has initiated an exercise to increase minority communities' employment in the public sector (a priority) by identifying possible senior level vacancies for minorities for a special recruitment drive.

There are four high priority and 16 medium priority recommendations in the group.

Priority actions include

Development of training capacity (a priority) and provision of mission essential equipment will require international political and financial support (a priority).

I therefore welcome the call at the High level Plenary Meeting to provide, as a priority, assistance for HIV AIDS prevention, care and treatment in African countries on a grant basis.

Local crime prevention councils (a priority, and key to improving security for all communities at the local level) are functioning in all municipalities except Lipljan, where Kosovo Serbs refuse to participate.

By dedicating part of its recommendations to the specific needs of Africa, the outcome document of the High level Plenary Meeting (resolution 60 1) confirmed the priority attached to Africa by the international community and the United Nations system.

UNFPA, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), in consultation with other partners, are developing a framework of priority linkages, an inventory of related advocacy and programming tools, and country level case studies.

An important general policy decision must be taken at the level of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice in order to draw more attention to the situation of women and children, which must become a priority.

(i) Similarly, the measures announced at international level for cancelling the debts of developing countries open the possibility of discussing, without preconditions, the redeployment of the financial resources thereby released for an effective implementation of the priority areas for combating desertification

In this state, a higher priority process will get a larger chunk of the CPU time than a lower priority process.

A Ministry of Returns and Communities has been established (a priority) to assume responsibility for returns within all communities (a priority).