Policy initiatives Standard setting with regard to

Policy initiatives Standard setting with regard to

Advancing global initiatives that strengthen policy coherence, both nationally and internationally, is crucial.

Robert Baldwin, Recent Issues and Initiatives in U.S. Trade Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1984.

A total of 57 initiatives were already being implemented under the new National Policy.

Such initiatives aim to ensure that policy commitments on gender equality are aligned with resource allocations.

Special financial support to undertake cross sectoral policy initiatives and pilot studies among its members as well as to support regional and country level initiatives would be critical.

The National Policy also included several initiatives to promote training in fields such as microelectronics and nanotechnology.

These initiatives will build on the lessons learned in countries that have successfully implemented a free education policy.

This has broadened the foundation for emancipation policy and has increased scope for forging alliances and implementing successful initiatives.

The Co financing and Partnership Section has the primary responsibility for undertaking and coordinating fund raising policy and initiatives.

The Secretariats are also responsible to foster initiatives against racial inequality in the country, through the National Policy on Racial Equality.

In order to ensure that the policy proposed is properly implemented, the Ministry of Justice has established an interministerial policy committee that meets regularly to discuss progress and, where necessary, formulate new initiatives.

Recent global economic trends called for major policy initiatives, for example for export diversification, investment in infrastructure and control of price volatility.

The partnerships include business alliances, philanthropy and public policy dialogue, and include local community projects, nationwide initiatives and global projects (see sect.

Additional policy initiatives are needed to redress the weaknesses in the investment situation in developing countries, including better access to international financial markets.

The Global Urban Observatory set up by UN Habitat and technical cooperation projects were contributing to government initiatives in sustainable urban development policy.

A government policy was in place to address the transition from State imposed development policies to a system based on private and community initiatives.

In the plan the ministers indicated that the focus of emancipation policy must shift from legislation to encouraging initiatives by women and girls themselves.

The ministries have developed specific activities and policy initiatives aimed at increasing the proportion of women in higher level posts and encouraging their promotion.

Despite some important initiatives, the evaluation found that inclusion of a policy level gender perspective in the poverty reduction practice area has been uneven.

He expressed his appreciation for the continued work on policy issues of particular interest to African countries, as well as various initiatives related to NEPAD.

The DMSs gradually set up by both developed and developing countries demonstrate the importance of coordinating public policy and private initiatives and forming solid partnerships.

The growth in information and promising initiatives, combined with continued advocacy for policy reform, has helped to raise awareness of violence, exploitation and abuse against children.

Out of pocket spending by consumers, especially the poor, has important implications for policy initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and income inequality in the developing world.

The ambassadors play an important role in putting gender issues and emancipation policy on the agenda within their own Defence unit, and also through specific initiatives.

These comprise special initiatives (such as emerging technologies, human security and post crisis rehabilitation, and UNIDO partnerships with civil society organizations), industrial policy and research, regional policy and field operating costs, all of which are covered by separate programmes.

The incumbent will also assist in the Department's efforts to strengthen accountability and provide capacity to track policy initiatives and monitor the quality of policy formulation and implementation, as well as coordinate the Department's response on reports of the Secretary General.

United Nations reform is increasingly being seen as a series of interlinked policy, programme and operational actions, and any additional measures should link clearly to ongoing initiatives.

Further, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations has organized a multidisciplinary Task Force at Headquarters to undertake a series of initiatives in the areas of conduct and discipline, policy guidance, management responsibility and accountability, training, investigation and enforcement, organizational culture and communication. Such initiatives include

But economics is not evidence based in selecting its theoretical paradigms. Economic policy initiatives are often taken without all the empirical pre testing that could have been done.

The challenge for the United Nations system now is to make the use of SSC a more explicit policy tool that will build on the initiatives already undertaken.

It is already taking steps to implement some of those recommendations, which are quite practical and could form a support basis for some of the Department's policy initiatives.

The IDB, in coordination with the IMF and the World Bank, has also been providing policy based loans and technical assistance for key reforms and for anti corruption initiatives.

Other Government initiatives in this area are the Social Welfare Secretariat's comprehensive child and adolescent welfare policy the Ministry of Public Health's basic health guidelines and policies for 2004 2008 and the agriculture and sectoral policy of the Ministry of Agriculture for 2004 2008.

To help rural women pursue individual and collective initiatives on a more ambitious scale, the government has revised its agricultural development policy in light of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

Similar initiatives have been taken through the Competition Policy Working Group set up within the context of the Dialogue for Economic Cooperation between the United States and the Republic of Korea.

These initiatives provide valuable expert input to the work of the Forum, with reports being made available for consideration at the Forum sessions, and have influenced policy developments at the Forum.

It facilitates the consultative processes between the Secretary General and members of CEB, particularly when new policy initiatives are contemplated or when comprehensive and complementary responses to major international developments are required.

Or will South Korea and the US try to take advantage of Kim Jong il s passing with new policy initiatives? If they can develop a two track policy framework aimed at facilitating economic reform inside North Korea while continuing international pressure for denuclearization, constructive engagement may be possible.

Regional initiatives

Country initiatives

New initiatives

Tricontinental initiatives

A policy option to complement that role is building partnerships with local authorities, community based organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector, particularly small scale service providers, to scale up sanitation initiatives.