Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War

It was suggested that OHCHR could better coordinate requests for country visits.

Improving access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas

It was hoped that Malawi's productive capacity could be improved through UNIDO activities in the country.

1. Takes note of the potential of spirulina to reduce hunger and malnutrition and to improve the prospects for sustainable development

Most of the measures being taken are geared towards improving the feasibility of combining work and family responsibilities.

Both instruments have the potential to improve effectiveness in detecting traffic in arms, explosives or sensitive materials.

They mentioned the need to improve access to and the effectiveness of prevention programmes, as well as to raise awareness about the risks involved in abusing psychoactive substances.

At the social level, we will help improve access to basic services with a view to enhancing equality and social cohesion.

Access to quality health care services must be a top priority in order to improve the global situation of young people.

To achieve the improvement of the lives of slum dwellers, programmes aimed specifically at improving their access to basic services are necessary.

The Group requested substantial improvement in market access in modes and sectors of export interest to ACP countries.

The kingdom also had established important alliances which helped it improve the possibility of Italian unification, such as Britain and the Second French Empire in the Crimean War.

The Council stresses that improving humanitarian access to all Somalis in need is an essential component of durable peace and reconciliation.

27.35 New information technologies will also enable the subprogramme to focus on improving access from the field, especially during breaking news.

23.13 New information technologies will also enable the subprogramme to focus on improving access from the field, especially during breaking news.

The purpose of the compendium is to standardize conference servicing procedures and practices across the duty stations with a view to promoting comparability and strengthening planning and coordination.

Improved access to finance, for example, could be provided by export import banks, which offer financial products to serve home customers wanting to invest abroad.

Many initiatives strive to show that things could improve with collective effort, and among them is the Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program.

National Governments may also be able to enhance local authorities' direct access to capital markets, domestic and international, by granting authority to municipalities to issue infrastructure bonds.

During the meeting, the Secretary General stressed the importance of this project as a means of facilitating better knowledge of polymetallic nodule resources in the CCZ.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to consolidate all annual protection reports in order to better identify lessons learned, priorities and best practices.

Under consideration at the moment is the question of upgrading statistical reports on offences committed against women, which will help monitoring and further adoption of preventive measures to suppress such offences.

Recognizes that improving access of every person to, and education in, the use of information and communication technologies could enhance popular participation in public affairs and the accountability of Governments

Underlines the need for improved access to resources for women in mountain regions as well as the need to strengthen the role of women in mountain regions in decision making processes that affect their communities, cultures and environments

The Coordination Committee, established at the twelfth annual meeting of special procedures, will play a pivotal part in this process, in particular, in updating the manual for special rapporteurs representatives experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights and of the advisory services programme .

The Water Governance Programme focuses on addressing local capacity constraints in order to improve access to water and sanitation and operates at the local and national levels.

One speaker suggested that international cooperation to protect victims of trafficking could be enhanced by allowing their relocation, where necessary, to other countries that were able to ensure their safety through effective witness protection schemes.

In some cases, in order to achieve greater synergies and further enhance joint operations between UNIDO and UNDP, the possibility of establishing joint UNIDO UNDP regional technical centres offices will also be explored.

14. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General for his efforts in improving the accessibility of the United Nations for persons with disabilities, and urges him to continue to implement plans to provide a barrier free environment

The review identified a potential to further improve this support through clearer and more tailored advice, written material, and more training of secretariat staff, for example on procedural issues.

Participants also generally shared the view that the system could be further enhanced by fostering a greater sense of collegiality among mandate holders, entailing more coordination, harmonization of working methods and self regulation.

5. Stresses the importance of increasing access to and control by the poor over resources, including land, skills, knowledge, capital and social connections, and of improving access for all to basic social services

15. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General for his efforts in improving the accessibility of the United Nations for persons with disabilities, and urges him to continue to implement plans to provide an accessible environment

Participants would review the commitment to expand existing national disaster plans to include responses to mass migration in each country, together with a renewed interest in improving migration management in all its aspects.

The advantages of mentorships are that hands on training over a period of several months can be provided and, during that period, a much clearer picture can be obtained of local obstacles to enhanced international legal cooperation.

Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General for his efforts in improving the accessibility of the United Nations for persons with disabilities, and urges him to continue to implement plans to provide an accessible environment

The accessibility of information on the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol will be improved by providing, on the web site, concise and visually appealing data, for example the country profiles of Annex I Parties.

This two pronged approach, which focuses on both timely submission and adherence to page limits, aims to enhance predictability in the inflow of workload and set the stage for timely processing and issuance.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

Several participants underscored the potential of information and communications technologies (ICT) to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and other development goals and, in light of this, the importance of improving developing countries' access to ICT.

There will be invisible capacity. Invisible capacity in our bodies, in our brains, and in the air.

5. Governments should ensure that access of youth to technical, secondary and higher education is improved and that curricula are adapted to meet the needs of a rapidly changing labour market associated with globalization. The transition from learning to work should also be facilitated.

9. Underlines the need for improved access to resources for women in mountain regions as well as the need to strengthen the role of women in mountain regions in decision making processes that affect their communities, cultures and environments

Corruption in Egypt, as in other Arab states, is so extensive as to undermine the possibility of economic advancement, higher living standards, a free media, independent courts, and democracy.