(iii) Focusing upon purpose and outcomes

Focus on Millennium Development Goal 1 eradication of extreme poverty and hunger

In particular, more emphasis must be placed on analysis and definition of objectives and outcomes, as well as impact assessment.

Chapter III below elaborates on the links between these Goals and the focus areas.

The focus on assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after five years occupied much of the attention of the General Assembly for most of the year.

While we endorse the importance of ensuring that those global targets are reached, we also strongly believe that we need to focus on the sustainability of the MDGs beyond 2015.

The thematic agendas of the two reports have been restructured to focus on selected aspects of the Millennium Development Goals each year.

The joint strategy is designed to focus on the achievement of the health and nutrition Goals, and guide UNICEF until at least 2015.

More must be done to focus on crucial issues, such as emigration, implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its entirety and South South cooperation.

However, we would argue that attaching significance only to the MDGs is similar to giving attention to specific trees rather than focusing on the entire forest.

In order to achieve the projected objectives over the next biennium, UNODC will require substantial funding and continued focus to strengthen field operations and project delivery capacity.

The thematic agendas of the two report series have now been restructured to focus directly on some aspect of the Millennium Development Goals each year.

More emphasis will also be given to the contribution of ITC to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, for which the establishment of a P 5 post is also being proposed.

Table 1 UNICEF support to the Millennium agenda International goals and contributing MTSP focus areas

So the German argument contains a kernel of validity In the long run, EU countries need to look more like one another if they want to inhabit the same house.

Such arrangements are incongruous to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for two reasons. First, the Millennium Development Goals require focus on poverty reduction and social development strategies and well coordinated, unified planning and implementation mechanisms.

In recent decades, the massive use of technology and automation in warfare has created the conditions for conflicts among States to be more focused in military objectives and to avoid collateral damage.

Both UNICEF and the World Bank have new leadership, and both institutions are committed to increased and strengthened collaboration focused on rapid achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Emphasis will continue to be placed on the needs of refugees and other displaced persons in the ongoing discussions on the MDGs and in preparation for the High Level Plenary meeting of the General Assembly in September.

We have also begun to emphasize well managed and development focused tourism as a veritable source of wealth and job creation and an effective contributor to several of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

South Korea called on the G 20 s members to focus on challenges such as meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, raising agricultural production, and building sustainable infrastructure in developing economies.

Thus, the main focus of Monaco's cooperation policies are those defined in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals the preservation of the environment in the broad sense of the term the fight against poverty and support for education and health care.

In promoting Goal 8, however, the emphasis needed to shift from market based approaches, which have served to exacerbate poverty, to a human rights based approach that places people at the centre of development.

However, despite an increasing awareness throughout the world that shareholder requirements must be met in order to attract and retain long term, low cost capital, the emphasis on shareholder value maximization has not precluded a growing emphasis on other corporate objectives.

But even if those are the goals, the recent focus on repealing Glass Steagall is not helpful, because it is not the most important way to simplify and strengthen America s banks.

Emphasis is placed on enhancing the effectiveness of the TAP in helping to accelerate progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals through implementing the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development.

For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in two years, have provided the framework for international development cooperation, with a focus on combating poverty worldwide.

The NGO representative indicated that his organization supports the MDGs and the Millennium Declaration, calling upon all stakeholders to focus on capacity building and peace building while being sensitive to ethnic diversity.

Particular interest should be focused on the potential for improving the contents of human resource action plans and the means used by the Secretary General to ensure that programme managers were held accountable for achieving their goals.

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Rule II Concentrate on the Elephants

C. Focusing on quick wins

He discusses the need for parents to keep in mind their long term goals for their children, such as helping them grow into responsible and caring people, rather than on short term goals, such as obedience.

UNFPA encourages a focus on the older poor in Common Country Assessments, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, poverty reduction strategy papers and reporting on the Millennium Development Goals.

My delegation earnestly hopes, therefore, that this year solidarity will be the hallmark of the political agenda so as to help all nations refocus on ways to achieve the development goals agreed upon at the start of this millennium.

Emphasis was placed on people centred policies and fair distribution of opportunities and benefits, and programmes to eradicate gender discrimination, putting Nepal on track towards the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

He is unable to concentrate on his academic work.

Focus on the linkage between peace and development.

Focus on priority issues

A few asked that in its next report, UNICEF strengthen the focus on analysis, including challenges.

Despite the MDGs breadth, one issue received the most attention by far over the past decade global warming.

The focus is on pleasure and value as well as on performance.

While it is true that multiple policy targets tend to increase the political sensitivity of central banks decisions, concentrating only on price stability also has important distributional consequences and political implications.

Together, these resources have supported the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals through work in the focus areas enumerated in the Second Cooperation Framework for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries.

One is his long term focus.