Give me predictability, give me surprise.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

So simplicity and predictability are characteristics of simple things.

To produce results, learn lessons, ensure high quality cooperation support in all programme countries and remain the world's voice for children, UNICEF needs sustained growth and predictability in its core income.

Now, they differ a great deal in terms of the predictability of time frames.

It would also contribute to balance, predictability and equity in the multilateral trading system.

The predictability and availability of extra budgetary resources were closely linked to that balance.

That requires better targeted, timely and coordinated financial support and the predictability of assistance.

Recognizes the significance of increasing and achieving stability and predictability in contributions to regular resources

Thirdly, the new architecture must enhance predictability, transparency and accountability in United Nations peacebuilding activities.

We must therefore continue our efforts to improve the effectiveness and the predictability of humanitarian response.

(c) To promote the predictability and the multi year pledging of funding for operational activities for development

In terms of legal trade the measures also help to improve predictability and effective clearance of goods.

Notice of formal declarations and rules on when their terms apply to transactions is important for commercial predictability.

Finally, it calls for better predictability of humanitarian funding, notably by improving the current Central Emergency Revolving Fund.

Security of resource access and the stability or predictability of the legal environment are essential to successful decentralization.

Other measures were needed, especially measures to secure a significant increase in the predictability of United Nations funding.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there.

Multi year commitments are crucial to UNICEF for improving income predictability and stability, effective cash management and programme planning.

We will continue to argue for measures regarding verification, transparency, predictability and irreversibility to form part of any ensuing agreement.

It was suggested that the predictability of UNICEF funding could be strengthened through increased commitment by donors to thematic funding.

Practical experience indicates that there is a lack of predictability in mobilizing adequate resources for peacebuilding based on voluntary contributions.

The Consultative Committee supports the commitment of UNIFEM to ensuring predictability and a high rate of delivery, and recommends that, unless there is a need to change the formula, the Executive Director can approve the allocation of core funds for programming as soon as possible after 1 January.

It was thought that the contractual place of receipt and the contractual place of delivery were preferable in terms of predictability.

With regard to the scale methodology, his delegation wished to underline the importance of the criteria of equity, stability and predictability.

It is important that developed countries ensure aid predictability and aid effectiveness through the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

(b) United Nations organizations could use this mechanism to advocate for predictability and sustainability as well as for simplified and standardized donor reporting.

(d) UN Habitat has also encouraged the development of multi year core funding arrangements by donors that increase the predictability of their support.

(b) Reliability, predictability and assuredness of the resource flows (using agreed schedules to assure availability and verifying the binding nature of donors' commitments)

We believe this is a very important article, because commercial transaction practice requires a significant level of predictability as to rules that would apply.

It is expected that if other donors were to adopt this approach, it would bring more stability and predictability to funding of priority areas.

In my opinion, at least, this is partly because the memory of years like 1930 and 2000, when stocks performed very badly, occupies too large a place in investors minds. Workers and other asset holders place a very high value on safety, security, and predictability, so a defined benefit pension plan is extremely valuable.

We believe that better defined guidelines for the use of force by the Council would contribute both to predictability of action and to the Council's credibility.

The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, represented a noble and ambitious departure in European history. Solidarity and predictability in international relations, based on common institutions and common interests, would ensure Europe s prosperity and stability much more effectively than had the traditional balancing act of high wire diplomacy, whose practitioners had too often crashed to the ground.

As for the decision to establish cluster coordination, that would offer a means of fostering greater collaboration, predictability and accountability in multilateral responses to crisis affected populations.

Increases would ideally come from the regular budget, which ultimately should lead to a reduction in the percentage of resources from extrabudgetary sources and therefore greater predictability.

First, there must be proactive upstream planning to achieve predictability in demand, an approach that the Department has been focusing on since the early stages of reform.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is in the process of developing proposals to improve the timeliness and predictability of humanitarian funding (ibid., eighth bullet).

Russia s leaders have earned a reputation for being unreliable, quixotic, and unpredictable, but markets like trustworthiness, stability, and predictability. Not surprisingly, foreign investors no longer favor Putin s Russia.

Thirdly, increasing and legitimate attention is being paid to ensuring beneficiaries' ownership of operations, the sustainability and predictability of resources, and measurement of the development impact of assistance.

It should be noted that firm and indicative pledges and early payments by Governments, in accordance with decision 1999 8, enhance the predictability of the availability of resources.

Strengthening the effectiveness of the United Nations humanitarian response, inter alia, by improving the timeliness and predictability of humanitarian funding, in part by improving the Central Emergency Revolving Fund

Our exchange rate that used to fluctuate all the time is now fairly stable and being managed so that business people have a predictability of prices in the economy.

As agreed in past decisions, including 2002 18, progressivity and predictability in the flow of resources to recipient countries, especially low income and LDC countries, are essential UNDP principles.

On the one hand, our need for security, for predictability, for safety, for dependability, for reliability, for permanence all these anchoring, grounding experiences of our lives that we call home.