Recently, UN Habitat has embarked on the following strategic partnerships to increase the impact of the Programme and leverage its resources

UNICEF will expand its work with allies at all levels, focusing on developing partnership frameworks that address specific needs and can leverage resources for scaling up programmes.

UNDP intends to leverage its investment in corporate initiatives such as its Enterprise Resource Planning (Atlas system) to progressively link financial resources to defined outcomes for results based reporting within the RBM framework.

Through the allocation formula approved by the Executive Board, regular resources enable UNICEF to support national capacity development and advocate and leverage wider resources for children.

Reiterating that the Special Climate Change Fund should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources,

These measures also contribute to more efficient use of ODA, which can in turn further leverage foreign direct investment, trade and domestic resources.

(c) Systematic efforts to leverage additional resources and results for children through advocacy and partnerships and by generating evidence to inform decision making.

(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

The strategic partnerships, which include partnerships with youth, are intended to leverage resources and coordinate international programme activities which work towards similar ends.

A further important UNICEF focus will be on working with partners to identify and leverage additional resources for accelerating results and impact for children.

The new aid modalities could give the United Nations greater leverage on how resources were used in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals.

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines.

The other is the UN s Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which seeks to leverage the private sector s wealth of resources its innovative capacity, research and development, management skills, and know how to turn policy ideas into reality.

Gender budget analysis in State HDRs provided important leverage of resources to promote gender outcomes and mainstream gender into national and State policies and budgets.

Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross border river flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.

Leverage is down sharply.

As part of its operational priorities and bearing in mind its small size, both in budgetary and human resource terms, in the course of 2004 UNODC launched a number of initiatives in order to leverage resources and to exploit the power of partnership with Governments and institutions.

Europe is not without leverage.

America s traditional sources of influence its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage appear to be running dry.

Now we must leverage current scientific opportunities and invest the resources needed to develop more effective, less toxic therapies, thereby improving outcomes for all children with cancer.

For established businesses, retained earnings are the key source of finance but, beyond this, the need to leverage their own resources requires organizational relations with the banking system.

After all, America s global leverage is dwindling even as its army remains the most sophisticated military machine in history.

The EU has even more leverage.

But does South Africa really see itself as a regional power? Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

Its chronic indecisiveness about the North and unwillingness to use its leverage, thus shielding its socialist ally, seems to reveal to the wider world a China obsessed with its own narrow interests.

(a) Use advocacy as a tool for the effective promotion of SSC through campaigns, meetings, workshops and seminars to mainstream SSC and to leverage resources of the United Nations system

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

UNICEF aims to use its limited resources to leverage wider funding in support of interventions for children and women, in this case by developing pilot approaches in order to inform the design of programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Otherwise, China is likely to emerge as the master of Asia s water taps, thereby acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbors behavior.

The independent expert received guarantees that the Government would use its leverage to ensure that the election would indeed be held.

Lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq gave America leverage to coerce its allies into submission Jubilee 2000 had no such weapon of persuasion.

Turkey s leaders understand that the country can best preserve and enhance its leverage with both sides by maintaining good relations with each.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

In these circumstances, Turkey has been able to leverage both its regional ties and its standing in the transatlantic community to play a more instrumental role vis à vis its southern neighbors.

By plowing more than two thirds of its mammoth foreign currency reserves into US dollar denominated assets, China has gained significant political leverage.

There were also signs of modest improvement in Europe s relations with China, despite a lack of unity that continued to undermine its leverage.

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

Brazil believes that, at this stage, all Palestinians should be focused on supporting and providing leverage to the Palestinian Authority in its undertakings.

By providing matching financial rewards, for example, a company could leverage its employees natural support networks and provide a valuable boost to the pot.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.