The demining work itself is greatly hampered by a lack of funds.

These functions were hampered by a lack of appropriate monitoring and reporting tools.

We are hampered by a lack of access to financial and technical assistance, a lack of human and infrastructural capacity and, unfortunately, a lack of attention and coordination.

The deployment of police personnel in the provinces is still hampered by a lack of accommodation, however.

In some cases, the participation and involvement of technical teams was hampered by lack of coordination and lack of clarity over roles and responsibilities.

Other national actors, including local NGOs, remain hampered by a lack of capacity and financial and technical support.

Currently, reform efforts are hampered by an acute lack of facilities, material resources, funding and qualified prosecutors and defence counsel.

Their ability to function effectively is however hampered by a lack of communications and transportation between the districts, provincial capitals and Freetown.

Regrettably, the implementation of the programme had been hampered by the lack of a local UNIDO Representative, as well as by a shortage of funds.

Furthermore, the operational effectiveness of the armed forces is particularly hampered by logistical shortfalls, including a serious lack of communications equipment and accommodation.

Efficient administration of juvenile justice was hampered by the absence of a coordinating body and the lack of an effective system for gathering information.

The execution of extradition and mutual legal assistance requests was hampered even more by differences between legal systems, language problems and lack of resources.

The lack of statistics has hampered analysis of the internationalization strategies of developing country enterprises, particularly SMEs.

Although the capacity of the Timorese defence force continued to grow, it remains hampered by a lack of experienced personnel, coordinated training and equipment, and by limited logistic capacity.

The councils are now functioning, but their capacity to deliver services to the population is seriously hampered by lack of qualified personnel, funding, logistics and infrastructure.

The work of the Executive Task Force on Anti Corruption has also continued to be hampered by the non cooperation of government officials and the lack of resources.

In addition, some international interlocutors indicated to the assessment mission that the enhancement of the capacity of the security sector was being hampered by lack of strategic financial management by the Government.

More often than not, the efforts of our Governments to provide good quality education, including the use of information and communication technologies, are hampered by a lack of resources.

Current knowledge of such barriers, both empirical and conceptual, is rather limited and hampered by the lack of common methodologies and the inadequate quality of available data and updated information.

Lack of territorial access to the sea, remoteness from world markets and higher transaction costs hampered the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

For many developing countries, implementation of the Millennium Development Goals is severely hampered by the lack of adequate resources, compounded by other challenges, including the HIV AIDS pandemic, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as other socio economic difficulties.

However, police operations continue to be hampered by inadequate resources.

These included the lack of reliable and timely data that in turn hampered a more rigorous analysis of progress achieved and the establishment of definitive results.

Notwithstanding these advances, the capacity of local councils to effectively deliver services to the local population is still hampered by lack of qualified personnel, as well as financial and logistical constraints, and the poor communications infrastructure.

Taking note of the report of the Secretary General,A 62 140. in which he stated that the Regional Centre's ability to fulfil its mandate continued to be hampered by the lack of funding, in particular core funding,

Efforts to strengthen international action to protect the oceans from land based pollution and other man made threats have been hampered by the lack of information readily accessible to policy makers on the state of the marine environment.

Their detection has been hampered by the anonymity that computer technology typically provides.

However, the effectiveness of the central security structures is hampered by resource limitations.

Moreover, the balanced and fair exercise of the rule of law is hampered by lack of financial, material and logistical resources such as paper, furniture, office equipment and means of transportation this undermines the efforts deployed within the judicial system.

Rather, progress on disarmament is hampered by States' inability to reach a joint security analysis.

The operations of repatriation convoys have been hampered by bad road conditions, which have been further exacerbated by heavy rains.

Second, an international diplomatic effort that was hampered from the beginning by Western support for Kosovo's independence.

Establishing consistent liaison with the Sudan Liberation Movement Army has been hampered by divisions within the group.

One element of the integrated programme for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea the construction of a goat's milk dairy with an independent power supply should be finished soon, although the project had been hampered by a lack of interest on the part of the donor community.

It was noted that, in some export sectors, the use of trade preferences had been hampered by restrictive rules.

As local NGOs remain hampered by a lack of capacity and financial and technical support, my Office plans to build their capacities so as to create a more dynamic and vocal civil society that can play its proper and important role in the protection and promotion of human rights.

Although Nigeria shared the view that national ownership of development programmes and processes was the key to sustainable development, its own efforts to harness the system's support were hampered by a lack of funds, which could be attributed to the excruciating burden of foreign debt, among other factors.

Prosecution of cartels in Russia has been hampered by a lack of complaints made to the Russian antimonopoly agency, by the requirement imposed by the competition law that the prosecutor prove that the participants in a horizontal agreement have a collective market share of 35 per cent, by uncertainty about the applicable standard of proof, and by insufficient investigative powers available to the competition authority.

OIOS believes that the development of an effective subregional office communication strategy is hampered by the top heavy approach to communication by ECA headquarters.

The situation had been further compounded by globalization, which had intensified the inequalities confronting many women and hampered their opportunities.

The international comparability of databases maintained by international organizations is hampered because different revisions versions and levels of classification are applied.

Equality in education seemed to be hampered by high drop out rates among girls, traditional stereotypes and a shortage of teachers.

Efforts by humanitarian agencies to provide support to the estimated half a million IDPs continued, but the response was hampered by endemic insecurity and limited access.

Cooperation may also be hampered by perceptions of national industrial or trade policies influencing competition decisions, or inspiring leakage of confidential information.

The investigation of cases was hampered by the fact that victims often withdrew their complaints and the investigation had to be terminated.