Promotion of synergy

(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.

Promotion of synergies

Ongoing activities and possible synergy

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

Synergy with other environmental objectives

(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.

Synergy within the Convention and other MEAs

There is room for more synergy between regional programmes.

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

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

Lessons learned and possible synergy with ongoing activities

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.

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

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.

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.

Liaison between the KP and the DDI was encouraged in order to optimize synergies.

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

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.

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

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,

Build in mechanisms for developing more synergy between related regional programmes so as to optimize strategic impact of each and achieve overall results.

They could also provide a context of integrated coordination for taking wise advantage of the potential for synergy arising from increased cooperation from actors on the ground.

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.

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

Through their Joint Liaison Group, the secretariats of the three Rio conventions are collaborating and coordinating their approaches in order to develop synergies between the conventions.

In the context of sustainable development, more work is needed to develop a technical analysis of the value of synergies in projects, through the development of indicators for evaluation.

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

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

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.