The panel recommended for reasons of transparency and practicality that all equipment be more clearly defined.

The International Monetary Fund now encourages more transparency by foreign investors, and has plans for a code of conduct. The EU Commission also favors voluntary agreements aimed at strengthening transparency.

Improved working methods, including more transparency, are important for all Member States, and not least the smaller ones.

Challenges include gaining more political support, increasing transparency and expanding knowledge.

They can result in more integrity, transparency and accountability in public programmes.

These days it's very popular to believe that this push for transparency, this kind of a combination between active citizens, new technologies and much more transparency friendly legislation can restore trust in politics.

For the United Nations to champion democracy more legitimately, we must increase the transparency and the accountability of this institution.

Despite this, reconciliation initiatives, if meeting conditions of fairness and transparency, can be an important vehicle for making peace more sustainable.

More than 50 States have mentioned the need for due process and transparency in the Committee's listing and or de listing procedures.

(g) The need for transparency

In order to respond effectively, it was necessary for UNHCR to strengthen its internal management, use its resources more efficiently and enhance transparency.

Contrary to the expectations of transparency advocates, greater disclosure of government information does not make public discourse more rational and less paranoid. If anything, it fuels conspiracy theories (there is nothing more suspicious than the claim of absolute transparency).

But globalization makes the weakest among us more visible, and therefore makes the absence of social justice more unacceptable. A world of much greater transparency and interdependency creates new responsibilities for the rich.

The drive for transparency must become a drive for consistency.

Of course, transparency is unsettling whether it s seeing your own wrinkles in the mirror, or confirming unpleasant aspects of how others treat you. Transparency is unambiguously good for companies and for governments by and large they don t welcome it, but it makes them more accountable to their constituents and to society.

Transparency and accountability are two important factors for democracy.

There are many lessons for America, and the rest of the world but among them is the need for greater financial sector regulation, especially better protection against predatory lending, and more transparency.

However, much more needs to be done to improve the transparency of the budgetary process and to strengthen legislative oversight.

Transparency

We can use technology for transparency, and many other things.

Noting that there were good and bad forms of transparency, one commentator called for more extensive use of drafting groups that included Member States not currently serving on the Council.

These countries could even voluntarily provide more transparency through particular arrangements with the IAEA with respect to certain aspect of their fuel cycle program in order to create more confidence.

Complete transparency.

Enhancing transparency

Increasing transparency

Transparency outreach

Directive on minimum transparency requirements for listed companies. European Commission. December.

More effective use of United Nations special procedures was also suggested and the need for transparency in the way information submitted by NGOs was received and used by treaty bodies stressed.

We note also that the Secretary General has embarked on internal management reforms, and we particularly welcome his initiatives for more transparency in the system for the appointment of senior officials and heads of agencies.

As the first country to issue a fiscal transparency report, Azerbaijan advocated transparency.

The changes aim at transparency and relevance to Parties, and increased efficiency, more coherence and enhanced capacity in priority areas inside the secretariat.

To increase transparency, the Department is developing analytical instruments to identify more effectively the causes and impact of the late submission of documentation.

Transparency had to be increased by making the presentation of the budget clearer and more concise, and submitting exhaustive reports on its execution.

The Subcommittee noted the initiatives taken by many Governments to provide citizen centric government information and sustainable services for their citizens and businesses in order to achieve more transparency, efficiency and accountability.

Transparency in armaments

Transparency in armaments

Transparency is key.

The Transparency Challenge

The Transparency Conspiracy

Accountability and transparency

Transparency and accountability ___________

Transparency in armaments

(c) Enhancing transparency.

Transparency in armaments

There needs to be a modernized approach to management in the United Nations based on strengthened accountability, greater transparency and more efficient working practices.