Hands on workshops led by participants and local partners were another major component of the gathering.

The idea of combining visiting missions with seminars in order to optimize available resources was worth pursuing.

Selected participants were invited to lead workshops or discussions, with the idea that each session be more conversation like in nature.

Workshops

9. Notes the progress made in the thematic programmes of work of the Convention on Biological Diversity

In one workshop, the local military commander came for a couple of hours, as a courtesy, and ended up staying for the whole week.

Citizen journalism workshops at Unibol.

Secondly, regional seminars were crucial in mobilizing world opinion to support the peoples of the Non Self Governing Territories in bringing about an end to colonialism.

The exchange of experiences has enabled a better formulation and implementation of NAPs, subregional action programmes (SRAPs) and regional action programmes (RAPs), including the regional thematic programme networks (TPNs), and promoted their implementation.

Arabic Lingua gave me the first playground to exercise social media on a professional level.

We don t hear about the workshops for women s empowerment, or the successful organization of small scale local elections across the country.

Thematic Issues

Thematic debates

(b) Thematic issues

Thematic debates and resolutions

Fertilizer and spraying were both more expensive than I thought.

The implementation of the RAPs takes place through TPNs, each of which focuses on a specific priority area defined in the RAP, with a view to promote best practices.

In the framework of the African RAP, four thematic programme networks (TPNs) concerning water resources, agroforestry, rangelands and monitoring, have been launched and further substantive development is underway.

(g) Support would be welcome from the institutions of the GEF family for networks of CCD regional thematic programmes to support the strategic areas of action

(a) The Thematic Programmes Sub Account and

(a) The Thematic Programmes Sub Account

Thematic issue comments

Presentation of the thematic database

The main thematic data metadata network (THEMANET) objectives are the following

In the 1990s, interest in CBR grew internationally, as evidenced by the establishment of an International Conference on Case Based Reasoning in 1995, as well as European, German, British, Italian, and other CBR workshops.

Discussion papers submitted by major groups

Session 2 Thematic Issues (Chair Kaimowitz)

Thematic cluster for the implementation cycle 2006 2007

I turn now to the subject of our thematic debate.

Strategic communications services thematic priorities

This thematic cluster addresses the core of the Convention.

(3) Support for Thematic and Territorial Networks for Human Development

3 Wide civil society participation is encouraged.

Through regional action programmes (RAPs), the African, Asian and Latin American and Caribbean affected country Parties identify the priority thematic areas for coordination and cooperation at the regional level.

With similar sincerity we further welcome the insightful conferences and workshops that have been organized by Russia and China in collaboration with other institutions on PAROS.

6 The guidelines and a suggested format for national reports (see para. 2 above) list the thematic issues discussed at previous sessions of the Forum and provide cross references to the proposals for action.

Our thematic debates have been more interactive and more interesting.

United Nations gender thematic groups at the country level

We shall now begin our thematic discussion on the issue of nuclear weapons.

Through hands on workshops, the students are learning how to express themselves and publish their stories on the website of La Pública.

TPN 5 on traditional knowledge and TPN 6 on renewable energy are currently being developed by the country Parties of the region, with the support of the secretariat.

In their national reports, developing countries in particular state that they are greatly constrained in the implementation of the proposals for action in all thematic areas, owing to insufficient financial resources for programme delivery.

Those seven thematic elements are used in the following review.

In other countries GTGs have been allowed to lapse.

Thematic cluster for the implementation cycle 2004 2005 (policy session)