Occupational literacy centres increased in number between 2000 and 2002.

Biological prospecting is an emerging sector based on increased cooperation between the private sectors, academic centres, medical centres and foundations.

Debates are being organised between young people at various Regional Educational Centres.

Between January and the end of August, more than 2,000 children passed through transit centres in North Kivu, including Beni, and some 800 through centres in South Kivu.

The number of second chance schooling centres (NAFA) rose from 110 to 140 between 2000 and 2002.

Regional initiatives and networking between centres of excellence can be particularly effective strategies for exchange of information and expertise.

To that end, emphasis should be placed on the need to develop exchanges of information between national coordination centres.

The same shortcoming was found for the funds collected for Liberia, split between two cost centres, West Africa overall and Liberia.

Trafficking victims were taken in by church based centres, legal aid centres and women's rights centres.

Improve and expand the flow of communication between the MASPFE and the technical departments, civil society, development partners, universities and research centres.

(j) Take the necessary steps to guarantee the principle of separation between convicted prisoners and remand prisoners, and between them and immigrants who have been served with expulsion orders in detention centres

Model 2 Regional and subregional centres linked to existing centres

The same shortcoming was found for the funds collected for Liberia, which were split between two cost centres, West Africa overall and Liberia.

As mentioned already, gender centres have included the non governmental sector in their activities, and launched an initiative for designating at a regional level a person from the non governmental sector to act as a contact point between non governmental sector and gender centres.

centres and offices

and subregional Centres

Six health centres.

39 medical centres

Given the mandate of the national cleaner production centres to provide technical assistance to countries for preventing industrial pollution and for ensuring safe manufacture of chemicals, there is scope for collaboration between a Stockholm Convention regional centre and national cleaner production centres at the national level.

This will be done in partnership with Southern centres of excellence, universities and research centres.

The police were cooperating well with State and municipal institutions and non governmental organizations in the field, and there were various crisis centres, resource centres and psychological and medical assistance centres for women, as well as child rehabilitation centres.

United Nations information centres

United Nations information centres

376 health centres sic .

Between LAC and South, East and Southeast Asia Offshore financial centres in the Caribbean account for about 15 per cent of the FDI stock in Asia (table 3).

The centres could also be an active part of a clearing house mechanism to collect and disseminate information between the various players at the regional and country levels.

Besides highlighting discrepancies between regulations and practice, this also provided an indication of the costs involved and the extent to which daycare centres are able to afford them.

In order to have closer collaboration with existing centres that have complementary mandates to the Stockholm Convention, the regional and subregional centres for the Stockholm Convention could be housed in hosting institutions alongside Basel Convention regional centres or UNIDO UNEP national cleaner production centres.

The financial arrangements by which the centres will be funded are critical to the success of such centres.

(e) Regional remote sensing centres

Existing regional and subregional centres

UNIDO UNEP cleaner production centres

In that regard, States parties should promote, in the areas where such persons live, institutions such as free legal help and advice centres, legal information centres and centres for conciliation and mediation.

That is why we have begun to develop neighbourhood telecommunications centres, thereby narrowing the information gap between young people who have access to such information and those who do not.

Network of United Nations information centres

Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres

Improving the communication and transport system between outlying areas and health care referral centres, in particular by equipping health facilities with radio communication, purchasing ambulances, and establishing contracts with transport operators.

With regard to the latter, the Special Unit will facilitate the creation of linkages between technology exchange centres in middle income countries and similar entities in poorer countries in the South.

The established structure of gender centres centres for equality and equity of genders, has already played an important role in strengthening women.

In North America native studies centres abounded.

WHO regional offices and WHO collaborating centres

There are 3 upper level obstetric centres.

(f) Acting as centres for policy dialogue

In some cases, in order to achieve greater synergies and further enhance joint operations between UNIDO and UNDP, the possibility of establishing joint UNIDO UNDP regional technical centres offices will also be explored.

In seeking synergy with other centres delivering technical assistance in related fields, model 2 provides an opportunity for establishing linkage with existing centres.