The Technical Advisory Group has provided effective technical support.

For practical and financial reasons, workshops will be planned to take place simultaneously with planned GoE meetings.

At the technical level, the working group on police reform has met on a weekly basis, and the working group on defence sector reform has met twice.

This year, the technical group, which now includes Germany and Algeria, discussed short term initiatives.

Working Group 1 Allocation of roles and responsibilities Working Group 2 Maintaining ecosystem functions Working Group 3 Policy, regulatory frameworks, equitable benefit sharing Working Group 4 Financial incentives, promoting investment, private sector Working Group 5 Participation, conflict and multi stakeholder processes Working Group 6 Capacity building, technical and information support

The Technical Subgroup on the International Standard Classification of Occupations will report back to the Expert Group at a meeting in early 2007.

The Technical Subgroup met for a total of 10 (usually week long) meetings to elaborate the details of the classification.

All of the proposals put forward by the Technical Group follow a pragmatic approach in that they do not require the creation of any new organization.

The procedure was endorsed by the Technical Advisory Group as a simpler price collection tool than those currently in use.

Since last year, the Technical Group on Innovative Financing Mechanisms has discussed various proposals, to which Spain has made an active contribution.

At the technical level, the working group was attempting to implement the Norms too soon and it would be better to let them rest for some time.

The Technical Subgroup prepared a proposal for the programme of work for the 2007 revision, Central Product Classification, Version 2, in a multistage process.

Plans for adjustments and changes in emphasis within the overall technical cooperation programme are reviewed annually within the framework of the Joint Advisory Group and ongoing consultations with stakeholders.

Throughout the revision process, the various drafts of the CPC revision were prepared by the Technical Subgroup, with the monitoring and guidance of the Statistical Commission and the Expert Group.

e Assumes that the workplan approved by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee in 2004 (A AC.105 804, annex III) is extended by one year to allow the incorporation of inputs from a joint International Atomic Energy Agency Scientific and Technical Subcommittee workshop into the final report of the Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space.

We are also of the view that the proposals on this issue made by the Technical Group on Innovative Financing Mechanisms, created by France and Brazil deserve to be studied in detail.

They study the audience to learn their needs and technical understanding level.

The responses to the questionnaire were subsequently reviewed by the Technical Subgroup and resulted in a revised top level draft structure of the classification, which was presented to the Commission in March 2004.

This group coordinates the systematic and focused development of programmes to mainstream new technologies as tools for industrial development in support of the broader range of UNIDO's technical cooperation activities.

Technical and Vocational Education

Technical cooperation.

A technical cooperation budget

A technical cooperation budget

(d) Technical cooperation

The Technical Subgroup prepared a proposal for the work programme for the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, and the Central Product Classification, Version 2, in a multistage process.

A Senior Legal Officer visited Haiti in March 2004 with the assessment mission and subsequently with the technical preparatory team in May 2004.

Welcoming the decision by the Association of Caribbean States to establish the Technical Advisory Group to further advance the Caribbean Sea Initiative and the implementation of resolutions 55 203 and 57 261, inter alia, through the preparation of a technical report,

Requests the High Commissioner to strengthen the technical cooperation programme of her office regarding minorities and to seek voluntary contributions towards participation of representatives of non governmental organizations and persons belonging to minorities in the work of the Working Group

Requests the High Commissioner to strengthen the technical cooperation programme of her office regarding minorities and to seek voluntary contributions towards participation of representatives of non governmental organizations and persons belonging to minorities in the work of the Working Group

Lastly, the EU looked forward to the issuing of the consolidated set of guidelines aimed at facilitating the management of technical cooperation, which were to be drawn up by the Advisory Panel on Programme Approval Committees.

Ms. MAGLIANI (Director, Evaluation Group) welcomed the support expressed for the activities of the Evaluation Group and the fact that the Group's remarks had been understood as part of the ongoing efforts to improve UNIDO's technical cooperation activities.

Mr. Salama believed that the working group was addressing an important subject, but that at the same time it was mishandling it at a technical, political, as well as procedural level.

Regular programme of technical cooperation

Adjustments will be made in response to any emerging priorities, including the subregional sectoral plans of APCI and NEPAD.

The technical cooperation strategy

Technical cooperation and capacity building

(r) Technical cooperation accounts

Note 4. Technical cooperation

(a) Technical cooperation activities

Requests the High Commissioner to strengthen the technical cooperation programme of her office regarding minorities and to seek voluntary contributions towards participation of representatives of non governmental organizations and persons belonging to minorities in the work of the Working Group

The Technical Advisory Group endorsed, and the Executive Board agreed, that the global comparison linking the regions should ensure the ranking of countries and that relative indices resulting from the regional comparisons should be preserved.

international economic agenda

(c) Technical cooperation (regular budget)

The technical cooperation strategy 6

Structure of technical cooperation projects