Promotion of synergy

Promotion of synergies

Synergy with the Mauritius Strategy should be promoted.

A description of the secretariat's activities in promoting synergies at the country level is given below.

It was also underlined that synergies should be further promoted at local level when it comes to the implementation of projects and programmes.

The seminar aimed to enhance regional dialogue and provide in depth training on key migration and asylum issues.

UNCCD was seen as taking the lead in promoting and implementing synergies between the Conventions.

Ongoing activities and possible synergy

Urban Sustainability Through Synergy

International Synergy Institute, United States

The workshop was organized under a memorandum of understanding signed by the secretariat and the Italian Ministry of the Environment on the strengthening of synergies among the three Rio conventions.

Synergy with other environmental objectives

(b) Synergies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Synergy refers to benefit resulting from mutual interaction.

The level and availability of funds to cover all NAPA projects The range of funding sources The possibility of access to other funds for NAPA projects (eg.

Synergies and Responses Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

(a) Determination of opportunities for synergism among conventions, and the identification of specific areas and criteria for project development and assessment in which synergy would be appropriate.

Lessons learned and possible synergy with ongoing activities

Linkages and synergies with other environmental conventions

Whole style synergy, recognize symmetry

Some participants said synergies between mitigation and adaptation are important, while others said that coordination rather than synergies were important.

Cooperation with the secretariats of other conventions and promotion

Synergy is considered an important and strategic topic for the UNCCD.

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how models approaches account for overlap synergies among measures

The Armed Violence Prevention Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to strengthen national capacities and to promote coherent institutional synergies at international and regional levels on armed violence prevention.

It is essential to continue enhancing synergies among partners, particularly among the members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and to improve cooperation and policy and programme coordination in and outside the forest sector.

(c) Collaboration among national ozone units (NOU) of Parties all over the world should be enhanced to enable importing countries to obtain information from exporting countries.

The strategy of the secretariat towards the promotion of synergies among relevant conventions relies on four main pillars, namely strengthening institutional linkages testing operational options including capacity building initiatives developing common policies and strategies and supporting country driven initiatives.

Other obstacles include slow disbursement of funds, administrative procedures of implementing agencies and lack of staff, time and capacity of national teams to deal with all the NAPA steps.

This programme will also include technology, so that synergy can be maximized.

Local level synergy workshops Two synergy workshops with a particular focus on the development of methodologies for the involvement of local level stakeholders in the creation of synergies were organized during the biennium 2004 2005, in Kazakhstan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In April 2004, a workshop on Forests and Forest Ecosystems Promoting Synergy in the Implementation of the three Rio Conventions was organized in Viterbo, Italy, by the three above mentioned secretariats.

Several proposals were made with a view to strengthening collaboration and cooperation and enhancing the work of the functional commissions.

(d) The synergy obtained from linkages with other relevant regional centres

Synergy within the Convention and other MEAs

There is room for more synergy between regional programmes.

The scope of the social programmes is maximized in order to avoid duplications and to promote synergies.

The effectiveness of the Fund is threatened by the lack of sufficient resources to make the desired synergy workable.

Joint Liaison Group As a framework for collaboration between the three Rio convention secretariats, a Joint Liaison Group (JLG) at the management level has been established to assist in promoting synergies and developing common approaches and strategies.

The activities relating to the joint work programme with the CBD and the strengthening of synergies with the other conventions have been supported by the temporary assistance of staff based in Bonn, Rome and New York.

They agreed that it was necessary to establish an institutional mechanism for ensuring such synergies.

UNDP and UNCDF will jointly explore ways of taking advantage of the synergy between the two organizations.

It aims to achieve synergies and complementarity through other social development programmes.

The group agreed to explore synergy with existing regional networks and to revisit the promotion of regional synergy during the NAPA implementation phase once a sufficient number of NAPAs have been finalized.