(q) Strengthen cooperation and partnerships at the regional and subregional levels to promote sustainable forest management

NEPAD is a vivid example of good governance on the regional level.

Within each region, all activities would be under the direction of a regional implementation group (RIG).

Regional assessments Each RIG would oversee the production of a substantive regional assessment prepared by a drafting team of experts selected by the RIG for that particular region.

Action at the regional level will continue to be important in assisting countries in achieving sustainable forest management.

Efforts will continue to enhance cooperation among regional United Nations entities through the Regional Coordination Group.

It is expected that the focus of the regional panel at the fifth session will be sustainable forest management in Asia.

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It will implement those strategies in coordination with the United Nations Communications Group and the United Nations system as a whole.

The joint UN team will link to global level problem solving mechanisms and to regional technical support facilities.

Recognizing the importance of integrated, multidisciplinary and multisectoral coastal and ocean management at the national, subregional and regional levels,

The United Nations regional commissions and regional public administration organizations were approached with the same set of questions.

The concept of a strategic reserve proposed by the Department had not met with approval, and a working group of the Special Committee was currently examining options to be submitted for further development by the Department.

Performance contracts between members of the Senior Management Team and the Executive Director are proposed for implementation in 2005.

chairing the UNDG management group to foster simplification and harmonization (S H) of financial, management and programme approaches among UNDG agencies

Decentralization is transferring the power from the federal to regional level or delivering management functions to other authorities (Malysheva).

The Regional Director explained that the RDT had worked actively with the United Nations country team on the division of responsibilities in the United Nations response plan to the national plan on HI AIDS.

A regional implementation group (RIG) would be established in each region to be responsible for implementing the global guidance document within that region, taking into account regional realities.

Individually they would inform the Conference of the Parties on regional levels of persistent organic pollutants and collectively, they would provide the technical basis for completion of the global assessment (to be organiseized by the GCG).

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.

During its third and fourth sessions, the Forum held regionally focused events to showcase experiences in the implementation of sustainable forest management.

In accordance with the Governing Council's instructions, these eligible claims were reviewed by the D2 Panel of Commissioners (the Panel ).

The Committee is also considering the possibility of collective regional reporting and has asked the Monitoring Team to further examine this option.

The LEG also prepared a technical paper on regional synergy in the context of the NAPA process (FCCC TP 2005 4).

Subregional office directors should participate as a matter of course in the meetings of the senior management team through teleconferencing.

In response, the Regional Director affirmed the full endorsement of UNICEF for the Scanteam report, which had suggested that perhaps the United Nations system should avoid getting into pooled funding.

The executive summary presents the key findings of the independent evaluation and recommendations on the strategic focus, management and modalities that the next regional programme may adopt.

The matter remains on the Council's agenda and will be the subject of informal meetings of the Working Group prior to the next session.

Welcoming, in this regard, recent initiatives to reinforce regional cooperation, including the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Afghanistan Contact Group,

13. Welcomes the start of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process by the Transitional Administration and the efforts of the international observer group to verify the fairness of the process, and calls upon the international community to assist the Transitional Administration in these efforts

On the trafficking of women and children, a group headed by a representative of the Attorney General's Office was studying the question at the regional level and its findings would be communicated to the Committee in due course.

The United Nations Communications Group will be utilized to enhance the coordination of communications activities between the Department and the organizations of the United Nations family related to these issues.

In that connection, it was mentioned that the persisting precarious financial situation of the Regional Centre in Africa was compelling the Department to consider relocating temporarily its operations.

The Government Performance Project reaction to this difficulty was to draw on existing areas of consensus in the public management literature, as well as enlist the advice of a broad panel of experts for each management system.

Some seminars were also organized by the CAP Team at the regional level, with participation of customs officials from neighbouring countries, particularly in Asia.

In that regard, Mr. Egeland suggested several potential practical steps that the Council could take to help address the regional dimension of the crisis, including the idea of appointing a panel of experts.

(d) The existing quality assurance function will continue to advise the management team on emerging audit trends, root cause analysis and possible actions

Disincentives for sustainable forest management. The Ad Hoc Expert Group on Finance and Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies also noted that the achievement of sustainable forest management can be greatly hindered by policies established outside the forest sector.

The US administration, fashionably worried over China s growing regional influence, seems quite happy with a closely tied Japan that could help balance China.

The Departmental Management Group conducts monthly reviews of expenditures and quarterly reviews of expenditures and output, and identifies solutions as soon as any problem or anomaly is detected.

Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

Draft resolution X Confidence building measures in the regional and subregional context

Draft resolution XXI Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

The terms of reference of the LEG include a provision on facilitating the exchange of information and on promoting regional synergy, and synergy with other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), in the preparation and implementation strategy of NAPAs.

The report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Finance and Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies provides a more in depth analysis of financial constraints impeding sustainable forest management, as well as a number of recommendations for addressing them.