Needs for technologies for adaptation and TNA studies

This would imply the ability to finance an important proportion of unmet needs for infrastructure financing.

To that effect, the Committee will look at how to strengthen the needs assessments.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR THE Eleventh SESSION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY

A needs assessment is required to ensure adequate resources (a priority).

(b) Breaking the Waves Assessment of the Buffering Capacity of Mangroves and Coral Reefs is a response to the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Regular surveys can help in assessing the effectiveness of service delivery and how needs and preferences are evolving.

Upcoming needs assessment missions will also include visits to Basrah and Erbil to assess regional requirements and capacities with a view to strengthening the Independent Electoral Commission at the governorate and sub governorate levels.

He pointed out that conducting a TNA for technologies for adaptation is more complex and challenging than for mitigation technologies and highlighted several key aspects in the identification of technology needs for adaptation.

She clarified that whereas the SPA funds the incremental costs of projects that have global benefits, the LCD Fund and the SCCF fund the additional cost of adaptation measures that are not required to include global benefits.

However, the Millennium Development Goals Needs Assessment is only the first concrete measure.

Mr. Vladu presented needs for adaptation technologies as expressed in TNAs, national communications and other national reports.

Most of the TNA studies completed to date addressed the needs for mitigation technologies, and only a few addressed the needs for technologies for adaptation and their integration in the suitable development goals.

Participants also highlighted some issues relating to conducting TNAs, including limitation of technology options available, ways to identify and prioritize technologies for adaptation, and the challenge to implement TNAs and to access GEF funding for these technologies.

Refugee participation in needs assessments, one key aspect of the standards and indicators process, has been increased.

The Office has participated in the needs assessment missions of the Committee to Albania and Thailand.

UNRWA and OCHA, Rafah Humanitarian Needs Assessment, 6 June 2004.

The programme helped in analysing the situation of children with specific needs, and in assessing the impact of all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence.

Capacity building and sustainability will be achieved through national level partnerships for their customization and adaptation to suit local requirements.

Japan believes that reform is also necessary in the areas of needs assessment and common strategy for humanitarian assistance.

The APF could be another useful approach for selecting adaptation projects at country level The implementation of TNAs results (plan of action) remains a challenge.

Undertake diagnostic studies on sectors and areas where countries would need assistance (needs assessment)

The fact is that assessment of food requirements representing only 34.5 per cent of the poverty line amount shows that food expenses account to a large extent for essential needs.

Furthermore, the United Nations does not have the capability to evaluate such equipment and needs to obtain the expertise of Governments.

An agreement had been reached with the University of Geneva to develop data collection and analysis tools that would increase the Agency's ability to assess and improve its programmes.

15. Calls upon relevant United Nations organizations to improve and increase consistency in the way in which humanitarian needs are assessed

They have to develop more effective strategies in assessing local needs, allocating recourses and defining priorities.

The experts also reached agreement on a common approach to assessing needs in the health sector.

(e) Noting that the system of integrated missions had been instituted in order to bring United Nations resources and activities closer together to ensure that they were applied in a coherent way across the political, military, developmental and humanitarian sectors.

NHRIs should be encouraged to assess technical cooperation needs and to elaborate methodologies and indicators for such programmes.

The ultimate irony is that there are simultaneously excess capacity and vast unmet needs and policies that could restore growth by using the former to address the latter.

(b) Development of information support services for endogenous capacity building and technology assessment activities, with particular emphasis on building up institutional networks.

With regard to managerial development, the College supported the design and development of a leadership development programme and assisted in the development of system wide managerial competencies to underpin the programme and the vendor evaluation process.

The pilot network of technology centres could enhance communication across the various MEAs and development assistance programmes, and could help to facilitate the emergence of key lessons, insights and complementarities Innovative financing as has been the case with mitigation, it will be necessary to explore innovative financing mechanisms that can promote, facilitate and support increased investment in technologies for adaptation.

So we need to assess national resilience by regularly evaluating critical subsystems within countries.

The decision to allocate resources for targeted projects was taken on the basis of clear criteria weighted by expressed needs capacity to deliver and potential for non core resource mobilization.

In addition, in order to assess needs accurately, it is necessary to ensure the participation of all stakeholders, including non governmental organizations.

Mr. Elmer Holt, CTI, highlighted CTI experiences in supporting countries to prepare their TNAs. Noting that CTI aims to foster rapid development of climate technologies, he stressed that TNA needs to be followed up and implemented.

21. Calls upon relevant United Nations organizations to continue to improve transparency and reliability of humanitarian needs assessments

There was a United Nations evaluation mission last summer in Tehran to assess the indigenous capability and infrastructure.

The working groups emphasized that TNAs play a crucial role in identifying the needs for technologies for adaptation, and that technology transfer should be integrated into overall national development goals.

Noted in the reports is the need to take account of external factors, such as changing patterns of demand and the impact of substitutes, when assessing future needs.

(d) Providing advisory services on gender statistical needs assessment and gender characteristics of data in national and regional statistical databases.

She therefore agreed with the Advisory Committee that requirements for posts should be assessed in the context of the proposed budget for 2005 2006.

It encompasses a robust framework and action plan for building the statistical capacity to meet both current and future data needs.