Promotion of synergy

Promotion of synergies

Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Ongoing activities and possible synergy

Operational and technical programme services

2006 (US dollars) 2,246,809

Operational costs

(j) Operating reserves

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.

Designated operational entities

Standards for the accreditation of operational entities

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

The operational situation of the Centre

(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.

The first was in the area of operational capacity.

Accreditation and designation of operational entities

Accreditation and designation of operational entities

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.

A total of eight Air Brigades are currently operational.

Improved operational systems in the migration sector

H. Global priorities and responses to operational challenges

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.

Decides to reduce operational costs by 1 million dollars

Operational budget for 2006 (in US dollars)

Japan congratulates the ICC on entering into its operational phase.

The COP provides policy and operational guidance as necessary.

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.

It is the largest youth run organization in the world.

Preferably, the user should be protected from the network operational details.

1.198 The structure of the Operational Technical Services is as follows