Alignment

Alignment and harmonization

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(a) Enhancing programme alignment with partner countries' priorities, systems and procedures, whenever possible

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The eyes, the jaw, the teeth everything is in perfect alignment with what the real guy has.

These are rejects. They are completely out of alignment.

Goal 2 alignment of UNIFEM programmes with demand and opportunities to support innovation, learning and results at all levels

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And, again, it's because of an alignment of the incentives.

We must seriously put into practice our political discourse about ownership, partnership, alignment with national processes and results based approaches.

18 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Survey on Harmonisation and Alignment Measuring Aid Harmonisation and Alignment in 14 Partner Countries. Available at http www.oecd.org dataoecd 31 37 33981948.pdf.

It was concerned that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had announced its intention in January 2003 to withdraw from the Treaty, and called for that country's Government to demonstrate flexibility and good faith in reaching a negotiated settlement for full alignment with the Treaty and Additional Protocol.

It was suggested that the CPD refer to the Millennium Development Goals, alignment with national goals and the country programme's contribution to the PRS.

Such alignment should be achieved over time and also take into account country specificity.

The five best practice principles for aid effectiveness (ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, mutual accountability) adopted in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness provide a useful framework for exploiting the opportunities provided by these partnerships to their full potential.

In the north, traditional power structures will have to shift to accommodate the new alignment.

UNAIDS will disseminate globally the results of the assessments of partner alignment, and will organize a transparent and participatory process at global level for the review of partner alignment, including reporting of progress on division of labour within the multilateral system.

At the global level, UNICEF will ensure the alignment of OMPs with MTSP focus areas and standards and will verify the adequacy of oversight and control mechanisms.

Further action as regards enhanced alignment with UNICEF programme and budget cycles and processes will be discussed during the forthcoming programme and budget review, in July 2005.

UNICEF finds that with these changes it will be possible to proceed further with the recommended joint initiatives in areas such as analysis, programming and implementation and also simplification, harmonization and alignment.

The proposed amendments would bring the Constitution into alignment with European standards by enhancing the independence of the judiciary and promoting local democracy and freedom of the media.

Complete alignment has been maintained with NACE at all levels of the classification, while clean links with NAICS and ANZSIC have been established at the two digit level and often even beyond that.

They agreed that the plan's main strengths were its alignment with the Millennium Development Goals and its reflection of the views that delegations had expressed throughout the preparation process.

He then held my jaw in the right position while orthodontically he put my teeth into correct alignment.

UNDAF should serve both as a means for harmonizing programme cycles and ensuring alignment with national strategies, and also as a framework for creating joint programming and pooling of resources.

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The Global Fund and the World Bank to identify approaches to improving alignment of their financing by December 2005.

The fifth principle is non alignment and non intervention in affairs that come under the domestic jurisdiction of States.

Amendments were put forward, including the deletion of paragraph 2 (c) and the total alignment of the article with the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Stresses the need to ensure the quality and results orientation of country programme documents as well as their alignment with national priorities in the areas of competence of all agencies involved

With this background, Deloitte and Touche, the consulting company, reviewed the current practices as regards the Fund's investments and has recommended a fundamental change of the investment alignment. The recommendations include

In collaborating on the preparation of the integrated HIV AIDS master plan of operations, UNICEF considered, inter alia, alignment of approach and mandate in order to limit overlaps with other agencies.

Stresses the need to ensure the quality and results orientation of country programme documents as well as their alignment with national priorities in the areas of competence of all agencies involved

The Joint Inspection Unit proposed that that preliminary step should include an assessment of the adequacy of resources allocated to the achievement of results to allow for better alignment between resources and results, a linkage which has been shown to be critical to the full implementation of results based management.

The Global Fund, the World Bank, and other multilateral institutions and international partners will identify specific approaches to improving the alignment of their financing with country cycles and annual priority AIDS action plans.

The United Nations Secretariat has explicitly addressed the alignment of ICT projects with the core missions and has adopted a standard methodology, the high level business case, for justifying and approving ICT initiatives.

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In addition to collaboration in particular substantive areas, UNICEF as an active member of UNDG works with the World Bank in supporting and promoting the harmonization and alignment initiatives sponsored by the OECD DAC.

4 In the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability , of 2 March 2005, 91 countries and 25 international organizations made specific pledges to enhance the effectiveness of foreign aid, agreeing to introduce indicators to monitor progress in terms of ownership, alignment, harmonization, results and mutual accountability.

Norway calls for full universalization and full compliance with the obligations set by these treaties.

As in the preceding biennium, the alignment of UNIDO programmes with international development targets will require the establishment and maintenance of close partnerships with multilateral and bilateral development agencies and the private sector, as called for in the Millennium Development Goals.

Mr. JOHANSEN (Norway) said that his country had noted with interest the Director General's progress report on the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement with UNDP and strongly supported efforts aimed at increased harmonization and alignment within the United Nations system.

OIOS believes that the issues of skills alignment among subregional office staff and the promotion of their operational expertise require immediate attention.

UNAIDS, together with a broad range of stakeholders, will develop a scorecard style accountability tool for measurement of national stakeholders' participation in the AIDS response and international partner alignment to the national AIDS action framework.