A project document will shortly be submitted by UMA and UNCTAD to donors for financing.

Donors as well as recipients must ensure consistency between financing and absorptive capacity.

The facility links four key groups, comprising local authorities, community based organizations, local finance institutions and international donor programmes.

Support from donors

A multi year funding mechanism focused on thematic priorities should be the basis for donors' decisions on allocation of funds.

Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.

Hence, effective financing for peacetime is a good investment of donors resources and a major factor in conflict prevention.

C. Meetings with the donor community

His delegation supported the efforts of UNHCR to strengthen its financial basis, including by broadening its donor base and increasing private funding.

It therefore remains to be seen whether total expenditures for population, including both donor and domestic funding, will be affected to any significant degree.

Donor assistance to population activities

Recommendation 16 called for stronger donor relations and for grantees to be invited to donor meetings.

(e) Better targeting by donors of assistance needs and delivery through the availability of a coordinated information exchange mechanism (automated donors assistance mechanism (ADAM))

However, the Government continues to rely on a high level of external financial support, and 50 per cent of the national budget is donor funded.

Ninety percent of the donors registered are German.

Donor funding is being sought for this purpose.

Donors also increased their funding levels.

(d) Interest on donor funds

Benchmarks, targets and indicators, to be developed with key donors, will be built into funding workplans to increase regular resources and ensure adequate financing of the MTSP.

To reverse this trend, UNICEF will advocate for increased regular resources at every opportunity and will continue to engage closely with donors to bring more consistency to funding approaches.

Haiti's main aid donors threatened to cut off aid.

The main Western donors included Italy and Sweden.

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In fact, 83 per cent of the increase in donor funding for population activities in the period from 2002 to 2003 was due to AIDS related funding.

The community based approach introduced in Ukraine has met with an enthusiastic response from donors, demonstrating that it is possible to overcome the donor fatigue surrounding Chernobyl.

The United States of America, whose funding increased by almost 88 per cent compared with that of 2002, continued to be the largest donor, contributing 1.8 billion in population assistance, or 54 per cent of the resources of donor countries.

At the subregional level, a small arms and light weapons control project covering Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has been developed at the initiative of UNDP and initial funding from donors for it is being sought.

Burden sharing also implies that non G 8 donors should contribute.

By 2002, donor assistance was 3.2 billion.

Following the Beijing Conference, a seminar had been held in Gabon to develop a national plan of action and although financial assistance had been requested from various international donors, including the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund, sufficient funding had not been forthcoming.

The Quartet s special envoy, James Wolfensohn, has proposed that donors assist the Palestinian people without violating anti terrorism laws that prohibit funds from being sent directly to Hamas.

But donors need to avoid some common mistakes.

They now have a chance to make good on their word.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

He also attached importance to dialogue with donors.

The disposal of the interest income is governed by agreements with donors.

Promotion of donor collaboration the Partnership encourages and facilitates information sharing and aid harmonization among donors, including through its light reporting mechanism (see para.

I again appeal to donors to meet these requirements without further delay.

Traditional major donors have maintained consistently high levels of support.

Public investment and donor support are also important in this regard.

When donors finance 50 or more of a country's national budget, they may sometimes find intervention unavoidable donors certainly have the power to intervene.

Ireland is one of the very few donors all of whose aid is untied.

Contributions from the largest 10 donors in 2004 to regular resources were nearly eight times greater than those of the next tier of 10 major donors.

Efforts to put these principles into practice have begun with the development of a donor peer review programme, changes in the funding policies of some donors, and pilot coordination projects implemented in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Everyone agrees that recent pledges of a 1 billion in aid are a sign that donors are ready to show Burundians that peace has a dividend.