We believe that complementarity in the work of the three principal organs should be used to promote synergy in peacebuilding efforts.

Promotion of synergy

Promotion of synergies

Ongoing activities and possible synergy

Synergy with other environmental objectives

(a) Determination of opportunities for synergism among conventions, and the identification of specific areas and criteria for project development and assessment in which synergy would be appropriate.

(b) Synergies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Synergy refers to benefit resulting from mutual interaction.

The level and availability of funds to cover all NAPA projects The range of funding sources The possibility of access to other funds for NAPA projects (eg.

Lessons learned and possible synergy with ongoing activities

Some participants said synergies between mitigation and adaptation are important, while others said that coordination rather than synergies were important.

Cooperation with the secretariats of other conventions and promotion

Synergy is considered an important and strategic topic for the UNCCD.

Local level synergy workshops Two synergy workshops with a particular focus on the development of methodologies for the involvement of local level stakeholders in the creation of synergies were organized during the biennium 2004 2005, in Kazakhstan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Other obstacles include slow disbursement of funds, administrative procedures of implementing agencies and lack of staff, time and capacity of national teams to deal with all the NAPA steps.

This programme will also include technology, so that synergy can be maximized.

Several proposals were made with a view to strengthening collaboration and cooperation and enhancing the work of the functional commissions.

(d) The synergy obtained from linkages with other relevant regional centres

Synergy within the Convention and other MEAs

There is room for more synergy between regional programmes.

The group agreed to explore synergy with existing regional networks and to revisit the promotion of regional synergy during the NAPA implementation phase once a sufficient number of NAPAs have been finalized.

They agreed that it was necessary to establish an institutional mechanism for ensuring such synergies.

A description of the secretariat's activities in promoting synergies at the country level is given below.

UNDP and UNCDF will jointly explore ways of taking advantage of the synergy between the two organizations.

3. Encourages Member States to consider utilizing the reporting checklist developed by the Government of Thailand on implementation of the Bangkok Declaration on Synergies and Responses, as a useful self assessment tool in their reporting on the follow up to the Eleventh Congress

The paper also examines barriers to synergy among MEAs within the NAPA process, and possible action by the LEG to promote synergy in accordance with the COP mandate within the LEG terms of reference.

The search for synergy between the Rio conventions advocated in the reports provides a monitoring and assessment framework.

Greater synergy between the Rio conventions is advocated with regard to the sustainable management of natural resources.

Bangkok Declaration on Synergies and Responses Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

D. Linkages and synergies with other environmental conventions and, as appropriate,

The group reviewed intersessional activities and outputs by the LEG.

D. Linkages and synergies with other environmental conventions and, as appropriate,

Vaclav Smil called the period 1867 1914 The Age of Synergy during which most of the great innovations were developed.

The Kyrgyzstan workshop was one of several national synergy forums organized in recent years.

The seminar aimed to enhance regional dialogue and provide in depth training on key migration and asylum issues.

Paragraph 9 (d) of the LEG terms of reference also mandates the LEG to promote regional synergy.

OSS has disseminated and shared its conceptual document on synergy between the three Rio conventions.

For developing countries and international organizations such as UNCTAD, it is important to identify areas of synergies and cooperation in the struggle to fight poverty.

This priority area could provide an implementation framework for the synergy between desertification and climate change conventions.

This synergy provides a unique opportunity to strengthen understanding of how the management of risk related to disasters should be linked to water resources management.

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8. Also welcomes the initiative taken by the University, together with the United Nations Office at Geneva, in bringing together United Nations research entities, and invites the Secretary General to use those annual meetings to develop greater synergy among them, and between them and other bodies of the United Nations system

The social costs would be significant, he warns, as the synergies between deposit taking and lending would be lost.

The potential remains to develop greater synergy among interventions, in supervision, administration, messages and outreach.