By June 2006, all prescriptive content for the human resource management should be available on the prescriptive content user guide website.

The evaluators suggested that the Secretariat should develop a prescriptive approach for dealing with project implementation delays.

The rest of us should be constructive and creative, not prescriptive and pernickety. Above all, we should be patient.

Throughout this process, Iceland and many other nations have maintained that the assessment should be policy relevant, but not policy prescriptive.

It exceeded its mandate and became prescriptive when it advocated a number of steps to be implemented within the early part of 2006.

Making a clear distinction, in statistical publications, between statistical and analytical comments on the one hand and policy prescriptive and advocacy comments on the other

In addition, UNDP will also issue best practice guidance on specific aspects of procurement as part of the overall strategy for the management of prescriptive content in UNDP.

The Working Group may wish to consider the extent to which the article should be prescriptive or facilitative, and the level of guidance on these questions that should be included in the Guide to Enactment.

On the other hand, the view was expressed that the harmonization of procurement regulations should be facilitative and should not remove all flexibility from enacting States, and the regulations themselves should not be overly prescriptive.

They suggested the recommendations in the final report should avoid being prescriptive, and should not include any reference to a specific country in order to be more general in nature and applicable to a greater number of countries.

The African Peer Mechanism is, therefore, enabling rather than prescriptive, specifying objectives and standards and providing indicative definitions of criteria and examples of indicators so as to ensure broad coherence at the country level and uniformity at the continental level.

The representative of Pakistan said that UNCTAD's technical cooperation was distinct from the technical cooperation provided by other agencies, as it was descriptive rather than prescriptive, covering a range of trade and development issues based on the analytical work undertaken by the organization.

His delegation urged the members of the General Committee not to deny the members of the GUAM group the right to request discussion of issues which affected them, especially as they had not been prescriptive about what form the peace process was to take.

Currently, the OECD was trying to establish a policy framework for investment, one that would be non prescriptive and non binding, would consist of a checklist of policies in support of an attractive investment environment and could be used voluntarily with a strong focus on policy coherence.

There will be no worthwhile American offer on the environment until there is a deal in Congress. This year s task may be to reach a global understanding in Copenhagen that is not too prescriptive, but which is more than aspirational and into which an American domestic political agreement can be incorporated once Obama achieves it.

This includes overseeing implementation and updates of prescriptive contents to make sure that operational standards effectively support UNDP operations based on lessons learned in, coordination with policy units providing input to UNDP systems development, internal communication and learning strategies reviewing input from various feeder systems with the objective of addressing emerging systemic issues proactively.

Under the policy for prescriptive content approved by the Strategic Management Team (SMT) in 2004, UNDP will move progressively into online publishing of policies, procedures, and best practices with the establishment of mandatory time bound sunset provisions for content reviews, the review of new changed contents by competent community of practice and within the governance mechanism established.

The existing mechanisms had indeed outlived their utility, and to judge by the decline over the past three years even the annual Pledging Conference for Development Activities had failed to solve the problem, which was further complicated by the donors' prescriptive determination of priority themes, most of them being irrelevant to the development priorities of the recipient countries or distorting their existing programmes.

Disclosures should cover the selection and approval process for the external auditor, any prescriptive requirements for audit partner rotation, the duration of the current auditor (e.g. whether the same auditor has been engaged for more than five years and whether there is a rotation of audit partners), who governs the relationship with the auditor, whether auditors do any non audit work and what percentage of the total fees paid to the auditor involves non audit work.