106. One delegation stressed the need for flexibility and preparation for change in the programme planning process.

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The main objectives of decentralization have been to provide flexibility to regional governments, allowing them to manage their own affairs as part of the democratization process.

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This open ended approach enabled States to exercise flexibility when considering different proposals made during the formal negotiation process.

And so we're proposing a different kind of flexibility, something that we call compartmentalized flexibility.

What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

Flexibility is required.

This is called resilience.

Specific modulus is a materials property consisting of the elastic modulus per mass density of a material.

So it goes whether you're elongating the spring or compressing the spring within some reasonable tolerance.

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.

For starters, making a system very resilient in one way can cause it to lose resilience in other ways.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

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But this is the face of resilience.

And so while planning is important, so is flexibility.

The provisions in the new draft concerning issues such as the scope of the rules and the procedure for appointing conciliators did not really allow for the flexibility required in a conciliation process.

The difference between the two valuations is the value of flexibility inherent in the project.

It is easy to imagine situations in which flexibility can be increased by curtailing individual rights and abandoning pre established decision making rules.

41. Delegations supported the approach taken in the country programme and commended UNDP for retaining flexibility over time to allow for the consolidation of the peace process.

Low debt and high liquidity should be valued for avoidance of cash flow distress, ensuring greater flexibility in adjusting asset allocation, and creating opportunities in the aftermath of a crisis.

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Canada has shown this in its approaches.

Accordingly, we support in general the flexibility that is proposed in the report.

It had this resilience that is what we need in our modern world.

Evidently, the degree of flexibility varies among the various funding mechanisms, with the greatest relative flexibility under voluntary contributions and the least under assessed contributions.

All Member States should seize the opportunity to contribute to the reform process and should show maximum flexibility in order to achieve an outcome that is cohesive, lasting and in the interest of the Organization as a whole.

In Italy, greater employment flexibility was introduced by the Prodi government in 1997, and further strengthened under the so called Biagi Law of 2003.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

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The idea of resilience comes from the study of ecology.

What skills do you think are most important for people to have for jobs available 10 years from now?

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

Yet, in the end, credibility collapsed because of the lack of flexibility.

In Abidjan the Angolan Government bent over backwards to be flexible.

The main challenges of decentralized forest management include building a process that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to different municipal situations and one that can enhance local democracy.10 In Scotland, there has been a transfer from state to local control.

In practical terms, the downward flexibility could remain at 15 per cent while the upward flexibility could be set at a higher rate, such as 25 per cent.