Improvement of environment and industrial hygiene

To improve and accomplish the environmental legislation, by increasing the fiscalization, control and monitoring of the environment.

It encourages the Prime Minister to take steps to improve the media environment as a matter of urgency.

Establishing a parliamentary oversight mechanism of the GEF as a contribution to better international governance.

UNEP is currently improving the participation of indigenous peoples in its activities and meetings such as the Governing Council.

That would be in keeping with Member States' responsibility to improve the quality of life of current and future generations and protect the environment.

The International Hydrological Programme aims to improve the scientific and technological basis for the rational management of water resources, including the protection of the environment.

For example, improving energy efficiency and material use efficiency has been undertaken in many sectors under cleaner production and environmental management initiatives.

An improvement in the overall security environment is, as the report stresses, an essential prerequisite for an expansion of United Nations activities in Iraq.

Progress made on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration has helped improve the political environment for the organization of meaningful elections.

Since 2006, the media environment has been improving with the government debating a new Freedom of Information Act, and the removal of any affiliation of media outlets with the government.

Moreover, the international environment can also be made more conducive to developing country enterprises through better coordinating aid and the activities of the main multilateral and bilateral donor organizations.

In the general discussions that followed, several participants underscored the importance of national development policies to the elaboration of TNAs and the synergy between NAPAs and TNAs.

The improved security environment at the time of writing, and international initiatives including private security arrangements in particularly vulnerable communities, have helped increase freedom of movement.

(a) Provides effective strategic guidance and control to the Organization as well as efficient operational and financial management.

The National Environmental Management Act of South Africa, for example, has been an enabling act aiming at improving environmental management while facilitating sustainable development and improving coordination and governance of environmental issues.

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(c) Take measures to create more favourable conditions at schools (e.g. improvement of heating and electricity facilities as well as more friendly and less abusive environments) in order to tackle the high dropout rates

13. Notes the ongoing consultations with a view to improving further the proposed Environment Watch strategy as an integral part of the wider strategic vision of the United Nations Environment Programme Ibid., decision 24 1, sect. III.

4. Urges Governments to promote pro poor investments in services and infrastructure, in particular water and sanitation, in order to improve living environments, in particular in slums and informal settlements

14.12 The scope of the evaluation and oversight function of UNEP comprises the programmes and projects of the Environment Fund and related trust funds as well as projects of the Global Environmental Facility that are implemented by UNEP.

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Comment by the Administration. As part of its overall ICT security assessment, UNDP, in October 2004, appointed the Chief Information Security Officer to oversee improvements to the ICT security environment.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

The ecological health concept necessitates that part of health activities be directed to the improvement of interaction between man and his environment, given the ever degrading environment as a consequence of both traditional and modern hazards at work.

Given the increased instability of the external trading and financial environment in developing countries, effective reforms could seek to improve counter cyclical and emergency financing for trade and other current transactions.

Ms. Adriaanse (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) said that improving the living conditions of the millions of slum dwellers was part of safeguarding the environment and called for a strong global partnership.

Through that Conference and other international forums, we will continue to take active initiatives in the promotion of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation out of a desire to contribute towards improving the security environment in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

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DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA

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To improve the quality of our aid, we must improve its coordination.

Global Environment Facility Global Environment Facility, Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, 1994, as amended, http thegef.org GEF_Instrument3.pdf.

The focus is on refining the secretariat's role so that it can deliver greater value added and, at the same time, make it easier for Parties, implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and others, to replicate and expand the work.

It is also crucial that they continue to improve their systems to create an enabling environment for dynamic rural growth to transform subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs.