This highlights the need for greater quality control at the departmental level

a. promotion and provision of guidelines for gender mainstreaming as a strategy for the empowerment of women by departmental and non departmental agencies from the national level down to the village level

Departmental

Departmental assemblies

11. Departmental applications

CHD Departmental Hospital Centre

In the departmental education offices.

Recommendation 6. All proposed publications programmes should be screened prior to the preparation of each biennial programme budget, first at the departmental level, and then at the Secretariat level (Publications Board).

A key element in this environment would be the existence, at the departmental level, of an effective system of internal control and programme oversight.

The Strategic Communications Planning Group will provide professional assistance and coordinate the evaluation efforts at the departmental level, including integrating feedback from field communications offices.

CODEMU Departmental Council of Women of Nariño

The Committee oversees and reviews the overall process of PAS implementation at the departmental level in order to ensure consistency at all phases of the process.

ITSD is establishing a monitoring system that will make it possible to track progress in compliance at the departmental level and at offices away from Headquarters.

Departmental applications are supported by the respective departments.

At the departmental level a training strategy for teachers designed to stimulate discussion and thinking about the topic of education and gender was designed, implemented and evaluated.

At the regional level, the number of women elected as deputies to the departmental assemblies increased from 10.1 per cent in 1992 to 11.35 per cent in 1994.

3. Financial malpractice that does not appear to constitute misconduct and is not reported to the Office of Human Resources Management may be handled at the departmental level.

Senior community development officer responsible for departmental statistical reporting

The establishment of a central database would be possible and desirable as soon as monitoring systems are established at the departmental level in response to the guidelines referred to above.

(a) Placed the issue under the auspices of the Steering Committee on New Arrival Services, a high level inter departmental body chaired in person by the Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs.

Mr. Jean Dal Colletto, Police Commander, Departmental Office for Public Security

Efforts to network databases of inter departmental interest are in progress.

According to the administering Power, departmental revenue credited to the Consolidated Fund for the year ending on 31 March 2004 totalled 163.7 million and departmental expenditure amounted to 139 million.

Attempts are being made to implement this model in other departmental hospitals.

The Ombudsman has also participated in departmental staff and town hall meetings.

Of particular significance was the Plan for Equal Opportunities and Rights, which had been developed in Montevideo at the departmental level and was to be extended to cover the rest of the country.

The system of examining water, soil and air pollution is based on a network of sanitation and epidemiology stations (49 at the voivodeship level and 320 local ones) and departmental scientific research institutes.

Evaluation is thus being conducted in a new context in which the functioning of programme performance reporting and self evaluation at the departmental level is viewed as part of the broader oversight function.

Strengthened inter departmental consultations have been key to the planning and budgeting exercises.

Mr. Bernard Mottier, Lieutenant Colonel and Commander, Bouches du Rhône Departmental Gendarmerie Group

39. The recommendations of OIOS appear below, with departmental responses provided in italics.

The office also chairs the Inter Departmental Review Committee for the final review.

1.185 Departmental reforms and improvements will have been consolidated into clear policies and strategies.

It establishes national, departmental and municipal protection agencies to formulate, implement and monitor policies.

Follow up to the People Management Programme is being implemented on a departmental basis.

B. Findings on departmental oversight in reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

The follow up will be implemented on a departmental basis, bringing together the heads of each respective department with their senior and middle level managers to focus on work planning, team building and internal accountability mechanisms.

12. In accordance with administrative instruction ST AI 1997 8, oversight of implementation of the system at the departmental level is provided by the Management Review Committee, which is to be established in each department or office.

Departmental decision makers are provided with the guidelines and strategies for approaching gender related issues.

6. Further requests the Secretary General to clarify the role of departmental focal points, including in the context of the staff selection system, and their participation in the development and monitoring of the departmental human resource action plans

6. Further requests the Secretary General to clarify the role of departmental focal points, including in the context of the staff selection system, and their participation in the development and monitoring of the departmental human resource action plans

(a) Advising on and promoting departmental policies and guidelines dealing with specific management issues and problems

184. It has a National Governing Council and macroregional and departmental coordinating units throughout the country.

The programme is currently operating in 23 departmental chief towns and in the town of Barrancabermeja.

Today, there are positive results following the implementation of the participation quota of 1 3 of each gender in departmental boards, in a total of 21 Departmental Boards of Ministries, the percentage of participating women is between 40 60 .