We urge policy and action in the following areas

Policy dialogue is poorly linked to action on the ground.

These targets are in line with European employment policy (National Action Programmes).

(a) Strategic result 1 evidence based situation analysis for policy and action.

7. Emphasizes the importance of a consensus outcome and action oriented policy sessions

Karen Sack, Oceans Policy Advisor, Greenpeace International, called for action to address deep sea bottom trawling.

Global Youth Action is trying to impact policy and lobbying organizations and authorities to include youth decision and policy making processes that will inevitably shape their lives.

Turkey has achieved important progress in areas of policy priority addressed in the World Programme of Action.

This is particularly true when the policy dialogue is removed from action and needs on the ground.

Furthermore, national policy guidelines for combating desertification are not always coordinated with the objectives of local action.

What accounts for the apparent lack of effective policy action across a broad range of countries and regions?

This action plan will revise the domestic violence intervention policy, Prevention, Detection, Intervention, that was adopted in 1995.

Many countries report action to improve the use of economic and policy instruments to promote sustainable forest management.

It has also developed the Asia Pacific Road Accident Database to monitor progress and encourage policy action. The

However studies by NGOs on various aspects of governance, increasingly form an input to governmental policy and action.

When the policy document was discussed in Parliament in December 2002, the plan of action received broad parliamentary support.

Switzerland recognized the important role of UNMAS as the focal point for mine action within the United Nations system and looked forward to the revised United Nations mine action policy.

Mechanisms such as the United Nations Inter Agency Coordination Group on Mine Action and the Steering Committee on Mine Action could help to build consensus around policy, strategy and operational issues.

Policy harmonization and political will can come together through the adoption of a multisectoral State family policy, plan of action or programme in which implementation is spearheaded by a national coordinating mechanism.

One of its specific actions had been to formulate an Integral Gender Action Plan based on the Beijing Platform for Action and a CARICOM programme of action, to ensure that the drafting of policy was gender balanced and gender equitable.

In these circumstances, we need collective action for global recovery along four main policy lines repair, reform, rebalancing, and rebuilding.

The Council shall establish on a regular basis an action plan to guide policy and project activities and identify priorities.

In March 2003 the inventory of policy envisaged by the emancipation and integration' plan of action was presented to parliament.

The task force is mandated to supervise and coordinate action and policy on violence against women at the national level.

For Schmidt, thorough analysis was a necessary prerequisite for all political action. He particularly abhorred an emotional approach to foreign policy.

The World Programme of Action for Youth provides a very good basis for any country to develop a national youth policy.

A clearly defined policy, with access indicators capable of promoting and guiding Government action in respect to the education of girls.

10 Household food security implications for policy and action for rural poverty alleviation and nutrition , International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1996.

The internal emancipation policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is formulated in an action plan entitled 'An organisation in balance'.

Mandated to undertake field driven, action oriented research, the IRC contributed to the advocacy, policy formulation and programme development of UNICEF.

Without a clear policy, the legitimacy of the action on the ground will come under scrutiny, potentially leading to more instability.

The same was true for the thirteenth session, which, as a policy session, must adopt action oriented, focused and unambiguous solutions.

Member States should overcome the disagreements expressed during the fifty ninth session of the General Assembly concerning the main goal of mine action assistance and the evaluation of United Nations mine action policy.

Since January 2004, Switzerland had been chairing the Mine Action Support Group, an informal group that brought together once a month the main donor countries to discuss policy issues related to mine action.

Action was required to ensure international financial flows for development, international financial and trading systems receptive to the needs of those countries and policy space to enable countries to apply appropriate international policy instruments.

The Panel has noted in the body of its report a number of areas that require policy action by the African countries.

Countries may also show commitment through the adoption and enactment of a State family policy, plan of action or family development programme.

This is evident in various calls for action, policy statements and recommendations, including those of the Programme Coordinating Board, which recognize the linkages.

The paper is a further development of the two track policy and of the Interdepartmental Plan of Action on Gender Mainstreaming (1998 2002).

Regular policy and technical dialogue with bilateral and multilateral technical and financial institutions on joint health and nutrition action will be expanded further.

Under the Rules of Business this Ministry's tasks include integrated rural development programmes policy, guidance, follow up action, coordination, foreign assistance and evaluation.

In its first incarnation, GAP was designed as a policy outlook and action planning tool for reviewing the general policy objectives of the Sixth Five Year Development Plan (1994 1995 1998 1999) in order to devise gender policy objectives for the next five year development plan (Propenas 2000 2004).

These instructions include the know your customer policy of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as well as the Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing.

Visible reforms could remedy the situation, and he hoped that the triennial comprehensive policy review would increase awareness of the urgent need for action.

There are structural explanations for policy inaction as well. Governance systems and constitutional structures differ in the extent to which they require broad consensus for official action, or to change policy direction in response to shocks or shifting conditions.