Programme F.3 Regional Policy

Regional ICT Policy and Regulation

Programme F.3 Regional Policy 86

The process of deeper regional integration requires the development of a regional pool of policy analysts.

(f) Promoting regional cooperation in strengthening health and development policy and programme capability to address regional health challenges

Regional infrastructure and policy cooperation are essential for supporting economic development.

14.54 In the biennium 2006 2007, capacities of regional offices will be strengthened to support regional environmental policy dialogue and coordinated policy implementation, and the delivery of UNEP technology transfer and capacity building activities at the regional, subregional and national levels.

According to the Estonian regional development strategy, the aim of the regional policy is to achieve the balance of regional development to the extent that in all the counties

They also discussed difficulties encountered in meeting the commitments and policy objectives of the regional strategy, and suggested policy measures to address these difficulties.

(a) Convening of regional forums or conferences that promote policy dialogues and facilitate a networking approach to regional development of the transport and tourism sectors

Activities entail the implementation of an initial feasibility study of new national and regional approaches to science policy development based on existing policy frameworks and current policy planning in the Pacific member states.

The UNEP regional offices promote intergovernmental policy dialogue and regional cooperation, increase national capacity for environmental management and response to emergencies, raise awareness and enhance information exchange, and translate global policies into regional action.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has continued to pursue its policy of good neighbourly relations and active regional cooperation.

Specifically, economic policy should centre on regional cooperation, investment facilitation and job creation social policy should focus on citizens' needs and aspirations and sustainable development policy should seek ways to offset the cost of environmental degradation.

The participation of regional directors in these meetings would facilitate decisions on policy and programme issues (see sect.

It needed to diversify its exports, retain policy space and strengthen regional cooperation to tackle its economic problems.

At the same time, commitments under bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations on services limit certain policy options.

Organise a sub regional meeting of senior government officials and policy makers for crisis countries in West Africa

(c) Strengthen the vertical linkages between forest policy development and dialogue at the global, regional, national and local levels.

The Millennium Project Task Force 8 benefited from the global and regional estimations, in order to formulate policy suggestions.

The evaluation therefore addressed itself to the range of UNDP work, including corporate and institutional policy its contribution to shaping national and international development policy and its regional and country programmes.

Furthermore, in July 2004, with the sponsorship of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and ECLAC, the regional commissions organized a policy seminar in New York on regional financial arrangements.

A sound policy framework should approach reform holistically regional players should tackle the development challenge as a positive sum game, building on achievements to promote a dialogue to defuse regional tensions.

Countries note the progress made by regional partnerships and the benefits that their dynamism has brought to national policy development.

The Project to Promote ILO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples undertakes activities at the national, regional and international levels.

UNCTAD also prepared a draft agreement for regional competition policy for member States of the South African Customs Union (SACU).

The development of policy consensus among developing countries at the regional level might facilitate their diffusion by creating economies of scale.

Currently, a regional policy on orphans and vulnerable children was being developed and would be adopted by the end of 2006.

There are some positive initiatives from the regional bureaux, such as the Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network, a programme in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific that focuses on engendering' macroeconomic policy.

Competitiveness diagnoses at national and regional levels are prepared using the UNIDO methodology and are discussed in the framework of policy workshops attended by policy makers, government officials, representatives of the private sector and knowledge institutions.

The NEPAD policy document offers a comprehensive diagnosis and analysis of the region's economic, social and political reality and offers a credible overarching policy framework for addressing the challenges at the national, regional and continental levels.

Consideration should be given to establishing a fund that is geared to translating advocacy and dialogue undertaken at the regional level into policy advisory work, policy development, capacity building and pilot programmes at the country level.

In a sense, the economic policy space available to the PA is reduced to a one sided fiscal policy (expenditure allocation), which is less than the space available to local or regional governments in many countries.

Direct causal linkages between advocacy and dialogue generated under the regional programme and actual policy changes are difficult to establish with certainty, although there are several instances of changes in policy having taken place after they were discussed openly for the first time under the UNDP regional programme and therefore causality can be inferred.

Welcomes the proposal made by the WTO during the meeting of policy dialogue between the WTO and the representatives of six major regional development banks, including IDB, which was held at the WTO Headquarters in Geneva, on 3 May 2003, that the regional development banks convene policy dialogues of trade and finance ministers at the regional level, to which the WTO and the World Bank may also be invited.

The meetings produced a set of policy recommendations and practical guidelines on regional and cross border disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in West Africa.

Four years ago, Africa adopted NEPAD as a regional policy framework to guide the continent in its quest for economic prosperity and stability.

The YMCA stresses that women's perspectives should be incorporated in all the areas of global and regional policy of the United Nations and multilateral institutions otherwise, the gender impacts of policy choices will continue to be ignored.

The Meeting noted that all of those regional GRID network centres and other national offices continued to derive policy relevant and value added information.

Europe s monetary unification of the 1990 s was supposed to be accompanied by fiscal convergence and harmonization. When budgets move in different directions, pressures shift to regional policy (to redistribute income) and to monetary policy (to boost growth).

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.

See J. Musonda, Regional competition policy for COMESA countries and implications for an FTA in 2000 , in UNCTAD, Competition policy, trade and development in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNCTAD ITCD CLP Misc.18), p. 103.

In Africa, the strategic partnership of UNIFEM with the Inter Governmental Authority for Development led to the endorsement of a regional gender policy by ministers of gender, and to the preparation of a draft gender policy in the Sudan.

Speakers emphasized that it could only be defeated with the active participation of all States and regional organizations resolutely pursuing a policy of international cooperation.

While focused on global policy development, the programme's activities are geared to promoting mutual reinforcement between global policies and regional and national policies and actions.