3.1 Influence of women's organizations on mainstream policies

It concludes with the major implications for policymakers.

The central issue in Russian politics is not the battle for votes.

a great stepping stone for the Ministry to come up with its first ever major national policy document.

Those in turn are largely a function of a lack of information on enterprises, weak legal protection of creditors and poorly enforced or inadequate property rights.

Fourth, maintaining policy space was also of key concern to developing countries.

Recalling the central role and responsibility of Governments in national and international policy making,

The chapter will also flag key issues that require further attention to strengthen the global policy response.

Other major emerging economies policymakers would be wise to act with the same purpose in mind.

The Council exercises most of the key decision making and policy guidance powers of the GEF.

The principal mandate of the federal level is to formulate, evaluate and support policies regulate actions provide technical cooperation with the States, the Federal District and the municipalities.

We share the view that the General Assembly should be restored to its central role as the chief policymaking body within the Organization.

As the main deliberative, democratic body of the Organization, the Assembly played a central role in setting policy, appropriating resources and exercising oversight.

Nor has Thatcherite policy succeeded in one of its chief aims to reduce the share of government spending in national income.

Regular contacts with interested partners help to ensure the transparency and accountability of the Court, as well as provide necessary feedback on key policies and decisions.

Integrated planning and policy making at all levels would be enhanced by strong coordinating and consultation mechanisms between local authorities and community based organizations and major groups.

Policy space, which was shrinking, was essential for developing countries to become able to, as was often stressed, take primary responsibility for their own development.

In terms of Chile s major policies, however, continuity is almost certain to prevail, even if Enríquez Ominami wins.

In this connection the Ministry commissioned a detailed gender analysis of Government of Pakistan's main policy document on combating poverty, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).

Building on the outcome of the review year, the Commission invited major groups to share their views in the policy year during discussions held on policy options and possible actions to overcome key constraints and obstacles related to water, sanitation and human settlements.

NEW YORK Of all major world regions, Europe has worked the hardest to implement policies aimed at countering human caused climate change.

That would foster partnerships of subregional offices with various national and subregional organizations and allow key policy messages to be spread much more rapidly and effectively.

12. Stresses that the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of all human rights lies with the State, and reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized

Aware that a major objective of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family is to strengthen national institutions in formulating, implementing and monitoring policies in respect of families,

The concept of mainstreaming human rights has gained greater attention in recent years, but it has still not been adequately reflected in key policy and resource decisions.

A key criterion in the assessment of policy options is the probability that a given choice will contribute to increasing effective delivery of priority interventions to high, sustained and equitable levels of coverage.

In Vienna, he was an active participant in the day to day work of the policymaking organs of these organizations, chaired several major meetings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

9. Stresses that the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of all human rights lies with the State, and reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized

1. Emphasizes the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the principal United Nations policy making body on drug control issues and as the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme

Rather than fiscal stimulation and control, the main tool of economic management nowadays is monetary policies conducted by independent central banks.

Throughout this exercise, we are continuously reminded of the primary responsibility of developing countries to implement sound economic policies and ensure good governance and the rule of law.

A major challenge for the creation of an enabling environment is the lack of integration of policies and mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women into national development policy frameworks and programmes.

In many developing countries the Government is the major, if not the sole, actor when it comes to setting policies, enacting legislation and delivering programmes.

The primary means of health promotion occur through developing healthy public policy that addresses the prerequisites of health such as income, housing, food security, employment, and quality working conditions.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

Any such reform would need to give priority to ensuring coherence in the macroeconomic policies of the major players, in both the developed and the developing worlds.

Noting also that the family related provisions of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits of the 1990s and their follow up processes continue to provide policy guidance on ways to strengthen family centred components of policies and programmes as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development,

3. Reaffirms also that each country has primary responsibility for its own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized

One principal policy failure in the run up to the crisis was a lack of imagination we failed to appreciate just how intricate the global economic and financial web had become.

The key areas addressed in this report are as follows social policy issues, employment, poverty, homelessness, health care, disability issues, early childhood development and child care, and family violence.

General description The main contribution of this Programme is to improve the process of formulation, implementation and monitoring of industrial strategies and policies with a view to enhancing the contribution of industry to productivity growth and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

To that end, priority has been accorded to the harmonization of policies and coordination of the implementation of key programmes in the area of social and human development, in line with RISDP, the Millennium Development Goals, and, indeed, NEPAD.

Mainstreaming the NAP may not reach its objective if rural development issues are in direct competition with priority social sectors.

The main difficulties in that area were lack of continuity in policies and institutional implementation procedures, and the fact that the donors proposing to fund the plans and projects require participatory sharing of water resources.

The main challenges facing the new Government will be the coordination of policies between ministries, implementing President Karzai's ambitious agenda and preparing for upcoming parliamentary, provincial and district elections.