First Committees Chairs are taking initiatives to rationalize the agenda and resolutions.

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

Recognizing also the need to improve coordination and harmonization among the various United Nations initiatives established to assist the development of Africa,

It also requests the Division to report periodically on civil society initiatives in order to enhance the interaction between civil society and the Committee.

Improve the business climate for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Many new UNHCR initiatives have been launched in recent years with a view to improving the Office's internal functioning and external response and performance.

l) Provide an enabling environment that removes gender specific barriers and creates opportunities for women's entrepreneurial development

The Service is the essential enabler of all automation and process improvement initiatives undertaken by the secretariat entities in Vienna, leading and contributing to the improvement of overall management support provided by the Division.

Business process improvement A business process improvement (BPI) typically involves six steps 1.

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They also depend upon the quality of entrepreneurship in the economy since the availability and ability of local suppliers are important here.53

It will seek to improve the efficiency of operations and reinforce synergy among regional institutions by focusing on several initiatives, including training of trainers and the establishment of expertise sharing networks.

Policy Initiative

These new laws are designed to better deter, prevent, detect and prosecute acts of terrorism.

This approach is embraced by organizations such as the Gamelan Council seeking to empower entrepreneurs (e.g., through microfinance initiatives).

Quick win initiatives

Tricontinental initiatives

Partnership initiatives

Involvement ranges from employer supported volunteer schemes and funding for volunteer projects, to building partnerships around volunteer focused government and civil society initiatives.

A policy option to complement that role is building partnerships with local authorities, community based organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector, particularly small scale service providers, to scale up sanitation initiatives.

Initiatives of the Palestinian Authority

C. Initiatives of the civil society

(b) Upstream and analytical work, including expert group meetings and joint projects with research institutions, to support the development of UNIDO priority programmes and new initiatives

2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty ninth session an item entitled Improving the effectiveness of the methods of work of the First Committee .

Development institutions like the World Bank have advocated improving business law as being essential to success.

The third informal consultation, which took place on 14 February 2005, focused on challenges and strategies to improve the statistical work of the HDR.

Fewer and more focused reports and resolutions and rationalization of the agenda could enrich the quality of work.

(a) Develop and establish a more structured content improvement assessment framework, capitalizing on the work already done on quality measurement and quality assessment

The Conakry meeting agreed to further enhance coordination within the United Nations system in various areas, including youth employment initiatives, HIV AIDS prevention and cross border issues.

With regard to the role of regional cooperation, at its session ECE was of the view that such initiatives can play an important role in improving the business climate and in making countries attractive for investors.

In this way it supports the efforts being carried out on the improvement of all munitions within the context of the implementation of Protocol V on explosive remnants of war efforts to which it contributes directly, actively and constructively.

We are also working to improve the business environment and investment climate by cutting red tape and simplifying the administrative burden on foreign investors.

There have been other international initiatives.

Other initiatives in the field of health

Furthermore, when designing new initiatives, it was necessary to view poor people not as passive recipients of aid but as active players who possess the ability to improve their economic status within institutional and legal environments.

Of paramount importance are improving health services as well as developing regional initiatives to address the prevailing and rapid growth of HIV AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, avian flu, SARS and other communicable diseases.

In one way or another, every country is now taking initiatives to include non governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, community groups, business groups, etc. into decision making processes.

Several Government observers commented on the need to improve the organization of work under this agenda item and to avoid any repetition of issues under other agenda items.

(a) To promote a UNEP wide integrated approach to the implementation of the outcome of the international environmental governance process in enhancing delivery of the capacity building initiatives of UNEP

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.

It had also taken part in regional initiatives, including those of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the East Asia and Pacific region.

Invest in improving infrastructural facilities and networking among developing countries to facilitate trade and reduce the cost of doing business.

One of the commentators underlined the need for better time management, as the number of agenda items, meetings, resolutions, and presidential statements was on the rise.

The designation of 2001 as the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations and the adoption of the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations and its Programme of Action were indeed major initiatives to enhance dialogue and understanding at the beginning of the new millennium.