Government representatives provided reassurances that Africa would be the focus of their development efforts.

5. Recommends that the Programme focus its efforts

Canadian international efforts focus on four main areas.

We will focus our efforts at three levels.

These systems and the type of methodology outlined above are currently utilized by coalition forces to focus their ERW efforts.

China and Russia, in their efforts to keep the focus on PAROS have circulated useful papers over the past few years.

Flag State accountability should be the focus of our efforts.

The new competition agency should focus its efforts on those sectors.

We will continue our efforts, with special focus on those areas.

Such international efforts are important for helping countries with scarce resources, especially developing countries, to focus their commitments and funding on attaining the agreed targets.

In the future, education efforts should focus on men as well as women.

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

These efforts focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Southeast Asia.

However, the current international efforts to support developing countries in their capacity and institution building have thus far lacked focus, and some of those efforts even involve conditionalities aimed at putting harmful pressure on recipient countries.

His delegation therefore supported the Secretariat's efforts to focus on thematic priorities in service provision.

But it needs to continue to be a focus of our efforts in the future.

To help achieve the targets by 2015, UNICEF must focus its efforts both geographically and strategically.

At this stage, efforts should focus on alleviating the extreme poverty that affects the Haitian population.

Reform efforts focus on the use of integrated systems and applications to automate all administrative processes.

The focus of these efforts will be institution wide, namely at Headquarters and in the Ffield.

Their focus is always about anticipated consequences.

Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together. The planned Geneva II conference is a necessary first step.

There was also hope that, once Mladic was in The Hague, efforts would focus on Radovan Karadzic.

The Millennium Declaration provides a focus for national efforts to improve the well being of Guatemalan society.

The World Bank balanced ongoing emergency efforts with a renewed focus on a medium term development agenda.

Accordingly, when researchers attempt to focus their attention and efforts on important problems in their country or region, they risk not being able to publish their findings in those academic journals or conferences most relevant to improving their standing and enabling them to attract funding.

Efforts to address the situation of older persons and implement the Madrid Plan of Action in the Russian Federation focus on both ageing specific programmes and mainstreaming efforts.

For that reason, it had attempted to focus the Special Committee's attention on arbitration, but its efforts had failed.

That was why the Government was making family planning the main focus of its efforts to address maternal mortality.

Welcoming also the efforts made by the Central African States, both on their own initiative and with the support of the international community, to focus on the difficulties afflicting this key region of Africa,

The focus areas and their contributions to the international agenda

We welcome the focus on gender equality in development issues, but we would also like to see a focus on gender equality and the role of women in efforts to promote peace and conflict resolution.

Irrespective of their outcome, there are a number of overarching challenges on which we will need to continue to focus if we are to see the dividends of our efforts over the past two years.

Through this focus area, UNICEF will also contribute to national capacities for emergency preparedness and support national efforts for conflict prevention.

The Committee encourages civil society organizations to focus their advocacy efforts at the local, national, regional and international levels, on the legal obligations of Governments, as emphasized in the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, and to coordinate their activities.

For example the construction of cartographic overlays that portray ERW location and density, local population areas, their movement patterns (both current and desired), the location of their industry and agriculture or other important considerations could help focus the efforts of a limited resource.

Second, African countries, and their international partners, must focus on results.

In 2005, research efforts would focus on conducting regional consultations, coordinated by UNICEF, with nine scheduled for the first half of 2005.

Special focus will be on efforts to develop and strengthen sustainable livelihood schemes, notably in the Andean countries and the Golden Triangle.

Reform efforts in this area focus on staff selection and mobility, on enhancing managerial skills and on identifying and mentoring tomorrow's leaders

Rejoicing over their efforts.

Rejoicing over their efforts.

In 2005, the focus of UNHCR efforts will be on facilitating the repatriation of some 14,000 Liberian refugees who are expected to return.

The people centred approach to development had been pursued and efforts had been made to focus on participation, reduce disparities and respect diversity.

You have to focus their attention on something because so many things happen.