Greater strategic focus for sustained results

One delegation called for a greater focus on core activities, and greater inter agency cooperation.

Greater focus on intersessional action learning initiatives versus negotiations

Disparity reduction will become a greater focus of the country programme.

Greater coordination and sharpening of focus were needed throughout the system.

The European Union had also called for a greater focus on ICT.

Further synchronize capacity with expected output, with greater focus on vertical synchronization

As requested by the Executive Board, greater focus is given in this report to major emergencies.

OIOS agrees, and suggests that correcting this deficiency could be the organizing principle for greater focus.

They encouraged the Fund to scale up its work with greater focus on the Three Ones'.

As a result, there is now greater focus at the international level on Africa's development problems.

Never before has there been greater consensus on the need to focus on investing in children.

He called for greater focus and attention and reallocated resources to be devoted to this area.

We agree that the world needs to be steered towards a greater focus on those larger freedoms.

Concerted efforts to promote effective family planning have been given greater focus in our national development strategies.

Rallying greater support for the Millennium Development Goals, especially at the national level, remains a central focus for DPI.

Project design should have a greater focus on cross cutting issues such as gender, governance and science and technology.

Similarly, some focus areas of this plan are likely to receive relatively greater weight within UNICEF cooperation in LDCs or emergency affected countries (e.g., focus area 1), compared to others in middle to higher income countries (e.g., focus area 5).

Furthermore, measurable and achievable targets needed to be formulated, to sharpen UNIDO's focus and spur it on to greater efforts.

This is, however, primarily a function of the more restricted nature of their focus rather than of their greater frugality.

UNHCR must play a mobilizing role in that area and focus greater attention on the necessity of resolving protracted refugee problems.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative is providing a basis for greater strategic focus in building alliances for girls' education.

At the meeting, she had emphasized the need for a greater focus on reproductive health, particularly among adolescent girls and women.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) is providing a basis for greater strategic focus in building alliances for girls' education.

Proposals for greater country engagement by OHCHR should focus on national capacity building through the provision of technical assistance and advisory services.

Policymakers are increasingly shifting their focus to security and defence, often ignoring the needs of poor people, even as women confront greater challenges.

This move reflects a shift in operational focus, towards greater involvement in technical assistance and exchanges of expertise at the grass roots level.

BEIJING The growing bloodshed in Iraq and Syria is being watched as keenly in China as anywhere else in the world. Indeed, the greater Middle East is becoming an ever greater focus of Chinese foreign policy.

We believe that there is a need for better coordination and greater focus of the international community's efforts on promoting democracy and good governance.

He noted that globalization and increased competition had brought into focus the need for greater efficiency and integration of all transport modes throughout the region.

Greater focus should be achieved in programmes through careful and sustained preparatory work, with a clear definition of problems and an emphasis on problem solving.

Restructuring of the Centre has created an institutional environment that provides for a greater focus on organized crime and corruption and increased emphasis on technical cooperation.

Among the advantages would be a reduction in the burden imposed on States parties, a much clearer focus for the dialogue between the Committee and States parties, and a much greater capacity to focus in depth on issues of particular interest or concern.

A delegation said that there should be greater focus on abstinence, while others said that sexual and reproductive health should be more explicitly included in the MTSP.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library reorganized its services at the end of 2004 to place greater focus on activities fostering knowledge management. Steps taken in that regard included

In many cases there has been a lack of adequate longer term planning and needs assessment amongst recipient populations, and a greater focus on inputs than on impact.

Greater focus will be achieved by keeping the total number of active projects under 20 and by a thematic shift towards sustainable human development (SHD) and poverty eradication.

There is increasing evidence that a greater focus on the household level increases the effectiveness of sectoral programmes, especially in the areas of sanitation, water quality and hygiene promotion.

On girls' education, a delegation said that there should be a greater shift from a project to a programme approach, and increased focus on capacity building and policy development.

In particular, the Inspectors call for the streamlining of the existing governance system and processes and for a greater focus on the substance and results of the University s work.

Programmes relating to children had been given greater focus on the protection of the rights of the child, and efforts undertaken in that context had started to produce tangible results.

The Committee is currently in the process of being decentralized to the regions, where it is envisioned that its work will have greater focus on regional and country specific issues.

To that end, the focus will be on greater use of electronic technology in the acquisition and provision of data and information, and on reducing the response burden of countries

A budgeting system that will focus on the actual achievements of the mandates and programmes will contribute to greater efficiency, effectiveness, relevance and impact of the work of the Organization.

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